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...1970s. But his racist roots run deep. Born in Detroit, Robb was the son of a builder and a department-store sales clerk. His family moved to Tucson while he was a teenager. There he devoured his mother's right-wing political tracts and joined the John Birch Society. After studying at a Colorado seminary under Kenneth Goff, a minister with anti-Semitic views, Robb became a Baptist minister, opened a print shop and started publishing his own right-wing tracts and pushing white-supremacist causes. In 1979 he joined Duke's Klan (one of many different Klan organizations...
They only menace civilization as Ryan knows it, in particular his wife (Anne Archer) and his daughter (Thora Birch). Peaceably strolling along a London street, Ryan happens on a terrorist attack on a cousin of the royal family's. In the course of foiling it, he kills one of the attackers, thereby bringing on himself and his family the relentless, psychopathic enmity of the attacker's brother Sean Miller (Sean Bean, a good, constantly smoldering source of side-stream paranoia...
...everyone was enthusiastic aboutGorbachev's visit. Across the street from theForum, members of the John Birch Society held upsigns saying, "Tyrant Go Home" and "Gorby NobelPrize for Murder...
...sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and his wife Emma have planted 20,000 slender saplings -- downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian grass...
...insinuations of Kitty Kelley satisfied some readers and repelled others. A third group could not get enough backstairs gossip, and its members are the target audience for A House of Secrets (Birch Lane; 237 pages; $18.95). The novel has two things to recommend it: a plausible first-person tone of wounded innocence, and an author named Patti Davis -- better known as the daughter of Nancy D. Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child...