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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 27, 1994                   TAG: 9404270095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated press
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IN THE NATION

NEW ORLEANS - Television evangelist Marvin Gorman, who sued rival Jimmy Swaggart for $90 million after the two swapped sexual misconduct allegations in the 1980s, accepted $1.85 million in an out-of-court settlement.

Half of the settlement will go to Gorman's attorney, Hunter Lundy of Lake Charles, according to an order dated April 13 by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Brown.

Gorman, who had admitted to a single case of adultery, said Swaggart and his allies spread false rumors of numerous affairs to destroy Gorman's then-budding New Orleans-based TV ministry in 1985 and 1986.

|- Associated Press\ FDA panel backs use of Prozac for bulimia

WASHINGTON - An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration recommended Tuesday that the antidepressant Prozac be approved for the treatment of bulimia, a chronic eating disorder.

Adoption of the recommendation would make Prozac the first drug approved in the United States for bulimia.

More than 1 million people a year in the United States suffer from bulimia, a chronic ailment characterized by cycles of binge eating and self-induced vomiting.

|- Associated Press