Televangelist Summaries February,1995 Affirmative Action
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Televangelist Summaries February,1995 Affirmative Action ....................................................................................................... 22 Christian Coalition...................................................................................................... 26 Foster, Henry ......................................................................................................... 17, 19 Higher Education .......................................................................................................... 16 Liberals ......................................................................................................................... 24 Republican Party ........................................................................................................... 25 School Prayer......................................................................................................... 17, 22 Victimization................................................................................................................. 21 700CLUB 2-1-95 Hosts: Ben Kinchlow, Terry Meeuwson, Lee Webb. NEWSWATCH: 1. Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson trial will get to make a second opening statement. 2. A poll shows President's Clinton's approval ratings are rising, but he isn't faring very well on Capitol Hill, as his bailout plan for Mexico is meeting opposition. 3. As Congressional Republicans tackle welfare reform, the church will need to step up and take an increased role in helping the needy. Kay James, Virginia's Secretary of Health and Human Services, is interviewed. 4. Terrorism is threatening the process in the Middle East. 5. GUEST: Yehuda Levy, publisher of "The Jerusalem Post." FEATURES: 1. A marriage almost falls apart because the husband is not a Christian. 2. GUEST: CBN President Michael Little. 3. GUEST: Stuart McCalpine, pastor of Christ Our Shepherd Church in Washington D.C. 700CLUB 2-2-95 Hosts: Lee Webb and Terry Meuuwsen. NEWSWATCH: 1. President Clinton proposes a bailout plan for Mexico. 2. The House is expected to pass the Unfunded Mandates Reform Bill. 3. The Senate's debate on the Balanced Budget Amendment will be long. 4. The 73 Republican freshman revolutionaries in Congress are facing up to some Washington realities, as evidenced by the battle over the Balanced Budget Amendment. 5. GUEST: Freshman Representative John Shadegg (R-AR). 6. Israel's leaders will meet with PLO leaders to try to save peace process. [newsdesk] 7. The Fed will raise interest rates again. 8. Prosecution is trying to convince the jury that O.J. Simpson is a brutal wife beater. 9. AIDS is out of control among users of crack cocaine. 10. The son of a missionary in Panama dies. [enddesk] 15 11. Two brothers found after a two-day search. FEATURES: 1. A woman keeps her word to serve God by deciding not to have an abortion. 2. GUESTS: The "New Creation Singers" perform "Amazing Grace" and "God is the Light." 700 CLUB 2-3-95 Hosts: Lee Webb and Terry Meuuwsen. 1. The House passes the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. 2. The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding hearings on America's military readiness. 3. Ben Kinchlow interviews Rosey Grier about O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles. 4. The O.J. Simpson trial has turned into a media circus. 5. More of the Grier interview. 6. Some ministries are working to save the youth of Los Angeles. 7. President Clinton has named his choice for Surgeon General. 8. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) may join race for president. 9. Damage estimates from the Japan earthquake is $130 billion. FEATURES: 1. GUEST: CBS sports announcer James Brown. 2. GUEST: A man who lost 300 pounds. CORAL RIDGE HOUR 2-5-95 D. James Kennedy gives the "Spiritual State of the Nation." Kennedy: "In fact the only place that you'll find any Communists at all I'm sure will be those few remaining hold-outs in the gulag of American public universities." The Family Research Council's Gary Bauer is interviewed after Kennedy's sermon. 700 CLUB 2-6-95 16 Hosts: Ben Kinchlow, Terry Meuuwsen, and Lee Webb. NEWSWATCH: 1. Clinton proposes increase in minimum wage. 2. Clinton names a replacement for fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, but the nominee Henry Foster has already come under fire from conservative groups for his views on abortion and birth control. The Family Research Council's Kristi Hamrick is interviewed. Kinchlow: "I think we should be very careful when you can consider that this is like saying the official government policy of the United States is abortion. When you appoint to the Surgeon General's office a man who has performed abortions, a man who has sat on Planned Parenthood's Board of Directors, who is obviously in favor of it, a man who started a program in Tennessee to get condoms to teenagers. This is almost like saying to all of you who have any kind of traditional moral values that that is not part of what we are representative of in this government." 3. Some Congressional Republicans are calling for hearings on Clinton's bailout plan for Mexico, but Gingrich is opposed to the idea. 4. GUEST: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) talks about the bailout plan. 5. Is New Orleans' curfew law a good crime-fighting law or a futile, repressive measure? 6. Israeli and Arab leaders meet in Cairo. [newsdesk] 7. The numbers of new AIDS cases has started to drop. 8. In Pontotoc County, Mississippi, a mother of five wants a federal court to stop student-led prayer in the local schools. REPORTER: "Lisa Herdahl claims her students have been teased and harassed by other students because they don't take part in voluntary prayer or Bible classes. But many local residents defend the idea of prayer. [clip of resident] That suit was brought by People For the American Way, which wants to ban all prayers and Bible verses from the school intercom system." Kinchlow: "Very interesting. We need curfews to get our kids home because they're being killed and killing each other off in record numbers, but God forbid we should have something that might cut it off at the knees by having children turn back to something that really made this country great to begin with." FEATURES: 1. Kinchlow talks to and works out with Joe Frazier and his son Marvis. 2. GUEST: Derek Prine, author of "The Spirit Filled Believer's Handbook." 17 700CLUB 2-7-95 Hosts: Terry Meeuwsen and Lee Webb. NEWSWATCH: 1. President Clinton unveils his budget plan today. 2. The House is scheduled to vote on the line item veto today. 3. Clinton has told the federal mediator to come up with a proposal to bring the baseball strike to an end. 4. Senate opponents to a Balanced Budget Amendment will hold up debate for two or three weeks. 5. Is 1995 going to be a year of disaster? [newsdesk] 6. An American Space Shuttle approaches a Russian space station. 7. The nomination of Henry Foster to Surgeon General may be in trouble because he has perfromed abortions, then lied about how many he has performed. 8. Senator Bob Dole says the Senate will take a look at Affirmative Action. 9. The IRS may havce acted improperly when it warned five Black churches in Norfolk about political activity .. 10. Researchers warn that medical problems may causes symptoms that resemble those causes by child abuse. 11. Actor Douglas McClure dies. [enddesk] 12. A couple quest to adopt a child may be nearing a happy ending. 13. The PLO lauches an attack. [enddesk] FEATURES: 1. A woman is healed by a "word of knowledge" on the "700 Club." 2. GUESTS: Singer Jennifer Holliday. 700 CLUB 2-8-95 Hosts: Pat Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen. NEWSWATCH: 1. The House passes the Line Item Bill. 2. Congressional Republicans are blasting the President for handing down a timid budget. 3. Some House members are trying to stop Clinton's Mexican bailout plan. 18 4. Meningitis breaks out in Minnesota. 5. Could MSG and other excitotoxins be dangerous? [newsdesk] 6. National Right to Life has transcripts of meeting where Surgeon General Henry Foster says he performed "near 700" abortions. Last week, he said he performed about a dozen. 7. The CIA says millions of people are in danger of dying. [enddesk] FEATURES: 1. A woman is healed by a "Word of Knowledge" on the "700 Club." 2. GUEST: Jennifer Holliday. 700 CLUB 2-9-95 Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meeuwsen. NEWSWATCH: 1. President Clinton is giving up on his efforts to bring an end to the baseball strike. 2. Henry Foster, Clinton's choice for Surgeon General, is coming under fire for performing abortions and for his involvement with Planned Parenthood. Robertson: "It must be really embarrassing to the President because this guy apparently lied, saying he'd done less than a dozen, and yet in a hearing under oath, before another committee, and as the Washington Post and others have pointed out, the pro-life groups have long memories, but they also have good research people, so there must have been a Reagan mole in one of those agencies that just flipped through the record. And the President has egg all over his face, because he didn't check this nomination carefully enough, just like Lani Guinier. What she said was outrageous, and Joycelyn Elders, it was double-outrageous, and she had to go." "Elders was such an incredible embarrassment, the stuff that she said, and it looks like the President-he has a group that picks people, and it's time to shake up that group." 3. The first part of the Republican crime bill sails through Congress. 4. The Mississippi House of Representatives passes a law allowing a judge to sentence criminals to paddling. 5. Alleged Muslim terrorists are standing trial in New York. 6. Billy Graham is undertaking his most ambitious effort to fulfill Christ's commission. 7. GUEST: Bob Williams, who runs Billy Graham's global mission. FEATURES: 1. A woman comes back from the brink of death. 19 2. INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT: Some movie recommendations for the family. 3. Robertson answers viewer mail. 700 CLUB 2-13-95 HOSTS: Ben Kinchlow and Dale Hurd NEWSWATCH: 1. The White House will fight for Clinton's choice for Surgeon General. 2. Dan Quayle decides not to run for President, a decision which will likely help Phil Gramm, who stole the show at the Conservative Political Action Conference.