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...case of Steven Bryant, who was found shot dead in his van in Los Angeles last May, might have slipped into oblivion were it not for the victim's reputation. Bryant, 33, was widely known as a longtime Hare Krishna who had turned against the sect in recent years. A bit of a crank, he bounced between West Virginia and California telling lawmen that the ever chanting, saffron- robed, pig-tailed, panhandling sect had turned corrupt...
Bryant accused the Hare Krishnas of child abuse, drug dealing and systematic violence. He charged that the Krishna temple near Moundsville, W. Va. -- a 4,000-acre community called New Vrindaban that features an Oz-like palace decorated with gold leaf -- was becoming like the Rev. Jim Jones' notorious People's Temple...
Archer's hero is Adam Scott, a former British army captain who goes on the run and has trouble crossing borders. The pages turn amusingly, and secret agents from several nations chase the protagonist with vigor and invention. But all this hare-and-hounding is the result of a mixup, and one suspects quite early on that when that nice Captain Scott is given a hearing, it will be the agents who are in trouble...
...begged the Europeans to help us with economic sanctions," said Raymond E. O'Hare...
...Khadafy should see U.S. power, and realize who he's dealing with," O'Hare said. "It's ridiculous how much we put up with from little Third World countries in order to be moral," he said...