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Thursday, February 25, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Hostage locations known? Robertson says CBN knew of whereabouts
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson said yesterday that his Christian Broadcasting Network once knew the whereabouts of U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
Robertson's comments came at an Atlanta news conference during which he complained that U.S. intelligence in the Middle East was inadequate and declared that action must be quick when U.S. citizens were taken hostage.
"We identified in our news department at CBN the location of those hostages in Lebanon very shortly after they were taken, and they were in a position where they could have been rescued," he said.
"They were in Beirut, and they could have been freed."
Robertson did not provide specifics and did not say which hostages were involved.
Asked whether he had told the Reagan administration what he knew, the former television evangelist said, "I 'broadcast it on national television; they monitor our programs virtually every day.'"
Later, in an interview on Atlanta radio station WGST, Robertson said the information about the hostages was obtained by a CBN-affiliated TV station in Lebanon. "My reporters in Lebanon had information, initially, on where these hostages were taken," he said.
Robertson said that that was several years ago.
Rival Republican candidate Jack Kemp called Robertson's statements irresponsible and said he should "apologize to the families of the hostages whom he has needlessly hurt in an attempt to gain public."
Robertson edie A Gary Lane said that in 1985, during the TWA Flight 847 crisis, CBN Beirut Bureau Chief Guh Hashem had information from
sources about where the hostages were being held in West Beirut and who was holding them.
In Washington, a State Department terrorism expert said he was puzzled by Robertson's statements.
Lane said the State Department contacted CBN for information at that time, but he said he did not know exactly who made the contact.
The official, who commented on condition of remaining anonymous, said he was unaware that CBN ever broadcast the precise locations of any hostages. He also said knowledge of hostages 'whereabouts in terms of location' or even a section of a city couldn't be enough to mount a rescue mission.
Nine Americans are in captivity in Lebanon, including Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, who was captured last week. Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, is the longest-held captive.
Robertson rules out settlement of libel suit against McCloskey
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson yesterday appeared to rule out a settlement that would head off the March 8 trial of his libel lawsuit against a former congressman who questioned his war record.
Robertson said he would not pay the legal expenses of former Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Jr., R-Calif., as a way of avoiding going to trial on Super Tuesday, when he hopes to score highly in a dozen Southern primaries.
"I wouldn't pay a nickel to somebody who is a patent liar," Robertson said of McCloskey, who charged that the former television evangelist used the political influence of his late father, Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, to avoid combat duty in the Korean War.
The only condition that McCloskey has set for settling the case out of court is reimbursement of his nearly $400,000 in legal fees. But that "is not an option." Robertson told reporters in Atlanta.
"At this stage he has already put us close to $400,000 in legal fees, we might as well go to trial," McCloskey said. "I think that the jury is the best possible place to determine whether he is telling the truth or I am."
Robertson acknowledged that starting the trial on Super Tuesday put him in "an untenable position."
"The trial is going ahead," Robertson said. "I'm looking for some alternative. We haven't made up our mind."
The lawsuit was filed in 1986 after McCloskey alleged in a letter to Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D-Ind., which was later published by two syndicated
columnists, that Robertson got his father to pull him off a troop ship carrying Marines to the Korean War.
McCloskey, a decorated Marine who was aboard the USS Breckinridge from which Robertson was removed in 1951 during a stopover in Japan, also charged that Robertson served as a "booze officer" for a rear-echelon unit during the conflict.
Robertson, who served as a Marine lieutenant, calls the charges false but was quoted in September by Time magazine as saying he regretted filing the lawsuit. "In all candor I think it was a bad idea," he was quoted as saying.
Since the lawsuit was filed, depositions taken by McCloskey's lawyers have turned up testimony from a number of former Marines that support various parts of the former congressman's allegations.
Swaggart pictures linked to rival
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — Jimmy Swagart was followed to a "crummy" motel by men who let air out of his tires and photographed him as he tried to put a spare tire on backwards, visited a reputed prostitute and was confronted by a rival evangelist, a church leader said.
Hamill described the photographs that led to Swaggart's tearful confession of sin Sunday, and disclosed that the Rev. Marvin Gorman of New Orleans was directly involved in the picture-taking.
James Hamill of Memphis, Tenn., a member of the general council of the Assemblies of God, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination, described the pictures in an interview with WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge Tuesday.
Last year, Gorman sued Swaggart for $90 million, charging him with unjustly accusing Gorman of repeatedly committing adultery. Gorman admitted a single "immoral act" with a woman.
Hamill also said he expected the council to strengthen the punishment Swaggart will receive from executives of his two million-member
denomination after admitting "moral failures."
The Louisiana district council has recommended a three-month suspension and counseling for the TV evangelist, whose ministry reaches more than 100 countries and reported $142 million in income last year.
The executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God will make the final decision in the Swaggart case. Rev. Everett Stenhouse, Assemblies of God general secretary, said the group tentatively was scheduled to meet Thursday.
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