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2Jhe Daily Tar HeelWednesday, September 6, 1989 : World and Nation j Finest demiDes homosexual affair From Associated Press Reports WASHINGTON A priest feud ing with Roman Catholic Church au thorities over his formation of an African-American congregation says a report of a homosexual affair between him and an altar boy is an attack on his ministry. Meanwhile, Cardinal James Hickey, the archbishop of Washington, said Monday he "was sorry to read the alle gations" published in The Washington Post about the Rev. George Stall ings Jr. "If it is true, then I feel great sorrow and sympathy for everyone involved," Hickey said as he left a city church. Hickey would not answer questions. Stallings denounced the report. "I will not dignify with a response the scurrilous and baseless charge re ported in today's Washington Post," Stallings said. "I believe that this charge and accusation is a concerted effort to divert attention from my mission ... to drive racial insensitivity and racism out of the Catholic church." A 28-year-old man, whom The Post agreed not to identify, told the paper he had oral sex two or three times a week with Stallings in a Washington church rectory for several months in 1977. The man, who was then 1 6 years old, said he never reported the relationship to church authorities. In July, Stallings, 41, formed the Imani Temple, an independent , African-American Catholic congregation in defiance of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Hickey suspended Stallings in July after the priest formed the sepa rate African-American congregation. Diocesan officials did say that pa rishioners and other Catholics had become concerned over Stallings' conduct, the newspaper said. Stallings had purchased a turn-of-the-century home, which he named Augustus Manor, and had a number of young boys in his presence, the paper said. Hickey confronted Stallings about alleged homosexual behavior three months ago, the paper said. William Marshall, spokesman for Stallings, issued a statement saying "again, the news media has launched a negative assault on a black leader." The release said the 12-year-old "rumors" from an unnamed source were "foolishness." The man told The Post his involve ment with the priest was a "deciding factor" in his becoming a homosexual. The newspaper said the man also signed a sworn statement saying that his story was true. The man was quoted by the newspa per as saying he became uneasy with the relationship and broke it off. Stress .caused Bakker's 'collapse, wife says From Associated Press reports CHARLOTTE Evangelist Jim Bakker, facing a hearing today on whether his fraud and conspiracy trial will continue, suffered stress not mental illness when he collapsed, his wife said Tuesday. i Tammy Faye Bakker also said her husband "was so out of it that he thought they were taking him to an animal hospital" when he was sent to a prison hospital last week. ' "After two years of sheer mental torture, he was just stressed out," Mrs. Bakker said in a taped statement aired on the Jim and Tammy Show. Bakker resigned from the PTL min istry in March 1987 in a sex and money scandal. He collapsed during his trial, which started Aug. 28 in U.S. District Court on charges that he used nearly $4 million in ministry funds to support a lavish lifestyle. The trial was recessed last Thursday when Bakker didn't come to court and his psychiatrist said he was hallucinating. When Bakker was taken to the prison hospital at the Federal Correctional Institution at Butner, north of Durham, Bakker confused it with an animal hospital in Charlotte named Butler Animal Hospital. Mrs. Bakker said her husband's civil rights were violated when U.S. District Court Judge Robert Potter ordered Bakker to the federal prison hospital. "Jim's constitutional rights have been violated ... He has been treated like a carnival show," she said. The U.S. Marshal's Office said a hearing would begin at 1 0:30 a.m. today. No other information was available. Attorneys and others in the case are forbidden to discuss it under Potter's gag order. The judge "flew into a rage" when he was told last Thursday that Bakker couldn't come to court, Mrs. Bakker said in the broadcast, and "ordered federal marshals to seize him." "These big men took one small man ... and put him in shackles ... and pa raded him across the yard in shackles, sobbing and crying with his hair all messed up," she said. "Nobody called us. No one told Jim where he was going. I called the law yers, and they didn't even know where he was. I went for an entire day and didn't even know if Jim was dead or alive." "Jim got to Butner hospital not know ing where he was, and he was so disori ented, and he was so hungry, and he had to go to the bathroom so bad, and they pulled him out of the car in front of a whole bunch of reporters,' ' Mrs. Bakker added. "They took him inside and they made him strip and they strip-searched him,' ' she said. "They took the money out of his wallet, and he said all he could think of was that was all the money he had in the world and said, vTam, I thought I got to pay the rent this month.'" Mrs. Bakker said the hospital staff members were kind and only followed rules in their treatment of her husband. Addicts call Bush's drag strategy juvenile From Associated Press reports : LOS ANGELES President Bush's battle plan against drugs sounded like a classroom lecture by a teacher who didn't know the subject, addicts and counselors at a drug treatment center said Tuesday. "He's talking like he's talking to a bunch of schoolchildren," said Frank, 33, who is addicted to painkillers. He watched Bush's-speech on television at the Center for Chemical Dependency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "He sounded like a third-grade schoolteacher," said Terry, 34, who is battling heroin. "He was banging those rocks on the table he didn't make it scary enough." Leslie has her own apartment Moreen lives in Granville Towers Leslie was too tired to drive to the campus computer room. Moreen has access to Granville's com puter room 24 hours a day. Leslie locked herself out of her apart ment. Luckily she had a spare key. If Moreen has a problem at Granville, there's always someone on duty to help her. ! -7 J L Last week Leslie lost three pounds, this week she gained seven. Granville offers balanced, nutritional meals. They also provide diet and vege tarian meals. , "T, Tsr"m ; 1 With no time for housework, Leslie some times finds things that she can't explain. Moreen has weekly maid service at Granville and full-time maintenance. Granville Towers ii; iIRAMiVflLILE TOWERS Because Vbu Ve Got Enough To Worry About University SquareChapel Hill929-7143 She referred to the plastic bag of rock cocaine the president used as a prop during the speech. Frank, Terry and Richard who is an alcoholic watched the speech in a room at the sprawling medical center, which has a 27-bed voluntary treat ment program. The patients asked to be identified only by their first names. Ronald Gershman, the medical di rector of the unit, also listened to Bush's speech. "He made one big blunder, calling ' cocaine the nation's No. 1 drug prob lem," said Gershman, who has been treating addicts for 15 years. "Alcohol ism is the No. 1 drug in the nation. I think they are being very narrow to focus all their attention on cocaine. It's a scapegoat. "He talks about cocaine fields in Colombia how about the California marijuana fields?" Gershman said. Terry said Bush's plan to spend $925 million for treatment of addicts was far too little. 'Treatment is expensive. Street addicts are not going to be able to come to Cedars-Sinai ... and the state programs are a joke." Season's biggest hurricane may strike U.S. East Coast From Associated Press reports MIAMI Giant Hurricane Gabrielle skirted the U.S. Caribbean islands Tuesday and turned its 130 mph winds north toward the main land East Coast. Gabrielle, already the season's biggest hurricane, was expected to grow stronger still. Forecasters said it rivaled last year's record-setting Hurricane Gilbert at the same stage, but was on a path similar to 1985's powerful Hurricane Gloria, which did $900 million in damage as it raced up the East Coast and into New England. "Certainly, the Middle Atlantic states are going to have to watch this storm," said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in suburban Coral Gables. Gabrielle's path was difficult to forecast, Sheets said, but it had turned northwest away from Puerto Rico and the Vir gin Islands and seemed likely also to pass east of Florida. Sheets compared Gabrielle's size to that of Gilbert of 1988, which became "the storm of the century" and devastated the island of Jamaica. Barry wants testimony released WASHINGTON Mayor Mar ion Barry said Monday he will ask federal prosecutors to release his grand jury testimony in which he denied using drugs with a convicted narcotics dealer. Barry's move comes after news reports that the drug dealer, former city employee Charles Lewis, alleg edly told prosecutors that he and Barry repeatedly used crack cocaine in Washington last December and in the U.S. Virgin Islands in early 1988. "I'm prepared to ask the prosecu tor to release my testimony before the grand jury and Mr. Lewis's tes timony, so therefore the public can see what was said," Barry said at a City Hall news conference. "A small group of character assassins have taken it upon themselves to take the law into their own hands ... to do in the press what they can't do in court. " U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens, who has said he will investigate the news leaks, was not immediately avail able to comment on whether the mayor's testimony would be re leased. Testimony before a federal grand jury generally is kept under seal until it is brought up in open court. "We have nothing to hide regard ing the testimony of the mayor or Mr. Lewis," said Barry's attorney, R. Kenneth Mundy. Germans demand new freedoms LEIPZIG, East Germany Sev eral hundred East Germans rallied Monday with banners demanding more democracy and freedom to travel. News in Brief Witnesses said several protesters were arrested during scuffles with police. The demonstration began in front of the St. Nicholas church after a traditional Monday "prayer for peace." The church has become a gathering place for human rights activists. Western reporters at the scene said the predominantly young crowd carried banners calling for more freedom. "Freedom to Travel Instead of Mass Escapes," said one sign. Another said, "For an Open State with Free People." A crush of East Germans have been fleeing their homeland this summer through other East bloc countries. Many have complained about the rigid Communist system of their country. About 6,000 East Germans have escaped to the West since Hungary began removing fences from its border with Austria in May. Nearly 5,000 other East German refugees are waiting in camps in Hungary for transfer to West Germany. During Monday's protest, about 300 people stood outside the church, shouting "We want out!" As the crowd tried to march toward the center of the city, security forces blocked the way. Mobil plans drilling precautions RALEIGH Mobil Oil Corp. will go "all out" to protect the envi ronment while drilling a test well for natural gas 40 miles off the North Carolina coast, company officials said Tuesday. "For the first time in the history of offshore exploration, we're going to station a fully-manned and equipped clean-up vessel at the well site from start-to-finish of our drilling opera tions," said Jim Martin, Mobil's project director for the North Caro lina test well. Martin said back-up ships, equip ment and trained crews would also be available from a proposed base in Morehead City. Mobil has submitted a 1 ,500-page draft proposal to federal officials and the state, outlining its plans for the test well off Cape Hatteras and how it plans to respond in case of a spill. Martin said if a final proposal is accepted by state and federal offi cials in January, the company could begin its 1 14-day drilling operation by May 1. Donna Moffitt, director of the state's Outer Continental Shelf Of fice, said state officials had no immediate response to the proposal. The best news on campus. The Daily Tar Heel FOR FKIENOS, FITNESS & FUN you should come home to CAROLINA APARTMENTS h we offer: clubhouse with weightroom, 6 9 Qr 12 monthleases tanning bed & jacuzzi, game room, pool located within 5 minutes of spacious 2 & 3 bedrooms campus First & Last Month's Rent FREE Only With 12 Mth. Lease 929-2139 Hwy 54 ByPass, Carrboro We've always had the best frozen yogurtl Now with our remodeling done, we have the best place tool Come Check It Out! & t? 'V p yy K'& 106 W. 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