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  Msg  : 72                                         Written : 08/11/94 06:15pm
  From : ROBIN MURRAY-O'HAIR                        Status  :                 
  To   : ALL                                                                  
  Subj : Pat Robertson Again?                                                 

                      Pat Robertson Again?

     Well, what can we say. His name does keep coming up.
     It seems that the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) has become
"umbrella" for at least ten out-and-out business ventures, with plans
for more. One such is a theme park projected to be built in the next
several years in either Virginia Beach, or Chesapeake, VA. He is also
planning a retirement center. The ministry owns hundreds of undeveloped
acres in both cities. Also Robertson has just negotiated an agreement
with the Vietnamese government for CBN to start a 28-channel cable
system in that county.
     Why worry about that now?
     Well, the big question is "Will they all be tax exempt?"
     Currently  he owns a charter airplane company, a travel agency, an
Oklahoma radio station, a hotel, and a news service which claims to
compete with the Associated Press.
     Robertson recently purchased the traveling Ice Capades of Dorothy
Hamill, who will stay with the show.
     The Business Coalition for Fair Competition located in Alexandria,
Virginia, is moaning that Robertson is bankrolled in all his ventures
by the money which continues to pour into his "700 Club."
     With capitalism, all is fair in love, war, and religion.


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