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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1989
Page
5
A school committee debated adopting the state recommended sex education curriculum versus an independent program funded at 25,000 for 1989 90. The plan includes abstinence emphasis, family life and disease prevention for grades 6-8 and high school, with parental review and opt out available.
Chronology recounts PTL leadership turmoil from 1987 resignations by Bakker and Falwell to Chapter 11 filing, IRS loss of tax exemption, purchases, and legal actions. Key figures include Jim and Tammy Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Richard Dortch, David Taggart, and Stephen Merrick. Dates span 1987 to 1989 with indictments, trials, and broadcasting shifts.
The narrative traces Jim Bakker's path from Bible school to marriage and evangelism, his move to Charlotte in 1974, and the creation of a televised network and the Heritage USA theme park near Fort Mill South Carolina. It notes aides who fed his ego and insiders who were silenced when concerns about financial ventures arose.
Sheriff recalls widow Mrs Boatwright, 70, killed after letting a man she knew into her home. He beat her with a rifle stock, then ran her down with her car and left the body in the garage. The killer remains unidentified though authorities believe he had access to the home and the victim’s trust. The case remains active in the county file with few slayings as yet unsolved.
Solidarity backs Mazowiecki as Poland moves to form a government without nomenklatura control. Jaruzelski resigns as Kiszczak steps toward a Solidarity led coalition. Walesa guides a parliamentary majority amid sweeping political changes in Warsaw and Gdansk.
Across the Soviet sphere, senior communists and writers push for change while face arrest or confinement. In Cuba Castro and Ceausescu rail against reform as capitalism. East Germany sees hundreds of thousands seek West asylum, describing life as second class. Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia show guarded openness, while protests in Czechoslovakia yield harassment. Bulgarian dissent faces police pressure and emigration.
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