Nation/World University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 30, 1989 7 Bakker's aide talks about PTL empire Conviction could cost 120 years The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jim Bakker's former personal aid testified yesterday that the PTL founder felt he lived "shabbily," yet moved his belongings by private jet and kept his swimming pool heated to 90 degrees. David Taggart, the first witness called when Bakker's trial opened Monday, also said the board of the evangelical empire in 1895 approved borrowing $800,000 for operating expenses while voting Bakker a $200,000 bonus. On cross-examination by the defense, Taggart testified that Bakker had repeatedly objected to bonuses and raises approved by the board but always took the money. If convicted of all 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy, Bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined 85 million. Bakker quit PTL in 1987 amid revelations about his 1980 sexual encounter with church secretary Jessica Hahn and a $265,000 payoff for her silence. Defense attorney George T. Davis said that the Hahn payment was made without Bakker's knowledge, and that he said Bakker personally approved it. Hahn is not on the list of witnesses scheduled to testify. Taggart and his brother James were convicted last month of tax evasion. Each faces 25 years in prison and $1 million in fines at the sentencing Sept. 8. James Taggart, who was PTL's interior decorator, also is expected to testify at the Bakker trial. Prosecutors say Bakker and other executives at PTL diverted for their own benefit at least $4 million of the $158 million they raised by selling $1,000 "lifetime partnerships" at the ministry's resort hotels. David Taggart testified that Bakker complained during a visit to 'Oral Roberts University, just weeks before he did not live as well as other evangelists. "They were showing us around," Taggart said. "Mr. Bakker said that he lived shabbity compared to Oral Roberts, the (Rex) Humbards and other ministers." Taggart said electric bills at Baker's lakefront parsonage in Tega Cay, S.C., usually ran about $1,800 to $2,000 a month because "the pool was kept at a very high temperature . . . in the 90s." Taggart also recounted moving the Bakers' clothing and other belongings from Tega Cay to a house they owned in Palm Springs, Calif., in 1984. He said the move was made on a private jet at a cost to PTL of $105,000. Taggart also testified that Bakker had become fascinated with real estate investments Shelling of tanker near Beirut kills 10 The Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian gunners shelled an oil tanker bound for a Christian port yesterday and set it ablaze, killing seven crewmen and starting an artillery duel that took three more lives. police reported. miles off the Christian-held Maementain area 11 miles north of Beirut, while trying to run the Syrian artillery blockade under cover of darkness. It carried 550,900 gallons of gasoline. Police said the Maltese-flag Sun shield was hit at 2:30 a.m., seven Johannes Garabedian, the Lebanese captain, was among the dead; two others were missing and feared dead, police reported. Police reported that three people were killed and 16 were wounded in the ensuing five-hour artillery exchange between Syrian army gunners and Christian army units. Three of the wounded were Muslim firemen hit when an 82mm mortar round exploded in the parking lot of a west Beirut fire station. Hanna Saddiq, 24, said at a hospital in Christian east Beirut the tanker was set ablaze by missiles fired from a Syrian gunboat that intercepted it If Saddiq's report is correct, it would be the first time a Syrian warship had fired on a cargo vessel since the fighting began March 8. However, police said the Sunshield was hit by Syrian artillery fire from west Beliru. British media rekindles World War II memories The Associated Press LONDON — "Sue evening, the headlines tonight." Sue Lawley tells television station BBC viewers. "Britain has sent a warning to Herr Hitler: We will stand by Poland whatever the consequences." There's an eerie quality to "News 39," a longweek series of mock news-casts that marries 50-year-old footballs and generate the days before World War II. With her reassuringly English tones, as well as the period jewelry she bought especially for the program, this doyenne of British televisi- sion seems born to the role of wartime newscaster. But at 43, Lawley wasn't even alive when the war ended. And computer graphics have an unsettling impact as they mingle with grayness black-and-white photos of helmeted Germans and gas-masked babies. Britain is being deluged with memories of Sept. 1 to 3, 1939, when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland and Britain declared war on Germany. More than 100 new books about the war are being published, from fresh histories to coffee-table volumes of photographs. The emphasis is on the small, almost forgotten details of life on the home front. SEEKING RACIAL CLARIFICAI- TION DENVER — A Denver woman has asked a court to alter her birth certificate to show she is Black instead of white, because "I don't want to be put in a box I don't fit" in," she said. World Briefs she had been accused of lying about her race to take advantage of policies that encouraged minority bribery. Mary Christine Walker, 39, said her birth certificate on file in Great Bend says she is white. She said her parents listed her race as white because they thought it would help her later in life. GOVERNMENT POSTS UNFILLED - WASHINGTON - After move than six months in office, President Bush has left an apparently unprecedented number of top government positions unfilled, creating possible problems for his administration, a Democratic congressional organization said yesterday. The former Denver Public Schools teacher said she was seeking the racial clarification because The DSG, an organization of House Democrats that provides research materials to members of Congress, said that as of Aug. 9 there were 160 senior positions, more than 40 percent of the total, for which Bush had not submitted nominations. "It appears as though a significant portion of the government is on automatic pilot," the Democratic Study group said. The report was based on an analysis of. 394 top government executive positions requiring appointment by the president and confirmation by the Senate. POLAND RECEIVES FOOD BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Economic Community said yesterday that it had begun sanding 10,000 tons of beef to Poland as part of an emergency food aid program. The EEC has agreed to sent $120 million in meat, grains and other foodstuffs as part of a larger assistance program involving two dozen countries. The shipments will run through Oct. 8. 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