University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 8, 1989
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Empty embassy angers Aoun
Lebanese general attacks U.S. policy
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Gen. Michel Aoun said yesterday that U.S. foreign policy was biased and shortsighted, then asked the United States for help in what the Christian leader calls the "war of liberation" against Syrian troops in Lebanon.
Aoun said the U.S. withdrawal of its last diplomas Wednesday was based on "rumors, false suppositions and unconvinced reasons."
He likened the six-month-old battle between his 20,000 Christian soldiers and a Muslim alliance of 40,000
Syrians to what America's "forefathers did . . . 200 years ago" in the Revolutionary War.
The U.S.-trained general said he would welcome the return of Ambassador John McCarthy and other U.S. diplomats to Lebanon only if Washington recognized the legitimacy of Aoun's Christian Cabinet.
His government competes for power with a Muslim Cabinet led by acting Minister Shahid Ahmadovic, widening sides by not presenting his credentials to either.
Military helicopters evacuated the 30 remaining U.S. citizens from the U.S. Embassy compound in east Beirut on Wednesday morning.
"It is pitiful that American-Lebanese relations should deteriorate to that point due to the stubbornness of
the American Embassy . . . backed by a biased and shortsighted foreign policy." Aoun said.
He was clearly angered by the State Department's declaration Wednesday that diplomats were evacuated because Aoun threatened to expose them to a "good dose of Christian terrorism."
Speaking to reporters in his bunker under the shattered presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, the 54-year-old Marionte Catholic general urged U.S. citizens and elected representatives to ignore the State Department's policy.
U. S. citizens should "support all the Lebanese, Muslims and Christians, in our war of liberation" against the Syrians, he said.
PTL board member testifies at Bakker trial
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A former PTL board member testified yesterday that he didn't know about hush money paid to Jessica Hahn until two months before Bakker quit the television ministry because of the sex and money scandal.
"I never knew the name Jessica
Ihn until January 1986. Ernie
Baldwin was the inspiration."
said at Bakker's federal trial on fraud and conspiracy charges.
Franzone, regional manager of the company that managed Bakker's Heritage Grand Hotel, said he wouldn't have approved bonuses for Bakker; Bakker's wife, Tammy; and former PLT Executive Vice President Richard Dortch had he known about Hahn.
Dortch has been sentenced to
years in prison and fined $200,000 for
his guilty plea to four fraud and conspiracy charges.
PTL paid Hahn $265,000 in 1985 to keep quiet about her sexual encounter with Bakker on Dec. 6, 1980 at a Florida hotel, Bakker resigned in March 1987 as PTL chief. The Hahn payment was made by PTL's builder, who then added the amount to his bill.
Bakker, 49, is being tried on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
MOTHER TERESA HOSPITALIZED-
Mother Teresa, who won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with
the poor and destitute, has been
admitted to the intensive care unit of
a Calcutta, India, hospital with a
heart aliment, doctors said yesterday.
She was admitted to a private hospital Tuesday with a high fever and an irregular heartbeat, but her condition is stable, said Dr. A. Bardhan, a cardiologist who treated the 79-year-old num.
Mother Teresa became ill Sunday night, said an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
She attended mass Monday but was moved to the hospital when her condition deteriorated Tuesday, the aide said.
The Roman Catholic nun, revered in India as a living saint, was born in Albania. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, an order of 3,000 nuns in 87 countries, in 1950.
STOCK MARKET CONTROLLEDAn admitted penny stock scam artist told a House subcommittee yesterday that over-the-counter penny stocks often are controlled by organized crime.
Lorenzo Formato, a former broker and promoter of the inexpensive but highly risky securities known as penny stocks, testified that "organized crime has their hand on the shoulder of someone inside any (over-the-counter) brokerage that's making money."
Formato is now in the federal Witness Protection Program.
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He told the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications and finance that although there are legitimate companies offering their stocks over-the-counter they often are manipulated by brokers, promoters or salesmen.
Although their price — a few cents up to a few dollars a share — makes penny stocks attractive to small investors with limited funds, many are prone to abuse because information about the issuing company often is hard to obtain and fraudulent claims are difficult to dispute.
SMOKING BANNED Senate committee agreed yesterday to permanently prohibit cigarette smoking on all domestic airline flights, expanding the current ban of smoking on trips of two hours or less.
The restrictions were included in an $11.9 billion spending bill for fiscal 1990 transportation programs that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved. 17-0 vote. The measure is expected to reach the full Senate next week.
"It's time to get on with protecting public health and safety, and this is one way to make certain that happens," said the sponsor of the restric-tions, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
PAULA ABDUL WINS AWARDS*Former Laker Girl Paula Abdul's energetic "Straight Up" video won four trophies at the sixth annual MTV
Video Music Awards as Madonna claimed the Viewers' Choice and three technical honors Wednesday night.
"i owe a lot to being a Laker Girl," said Abdul, who began her career as a cheerleader for the National Basketball Association team in Los Angeles. "It was a great vehicle to start off."
Abdul's video, which drew on cheerleading dance styles, took best female video, dance, choreography and editing.
PRINCIPAL'S USE OF SHAKE QUESTIONEDA California elementary school principal kept an 11-inch python in his office and showed it to children who misbehaved, parents charged.
The principal, who has been transferred to another school, said the charges were unfounded.
Robert Hill Lane Elementary School Principal Dennis Duylea called the charges "ludicrous."
The school district found no wrong- doing on his part.
Deputy district Superintendent Sidney Thompson said: "There is no evidence he used the snake in a manner. He manner. He was a scientific instrument."
Duyle denied frightening children
involved in it was part of a paddlly study program.
"He was not used to intimidate people. He's a nice guy. He's not dangerous," he said.
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