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...Children of Light comes from watching the author nudge his damaged hero through seedy surroundings down the path toward disaster. Walker has what he thinks is a good idea. He will drive down the Baja peninsula to where a screenplay of his is being shot. He wants to see Lu Anne Bourgeois, a former lover and soul mate in the use of controlled substances, who is known professionally as Lee Verger and who stars in the movie...
Stone cuts to location, where a few little problems have cropped up even before Walker arrives. Lu Anne has taken herself off the medication that is supposed to control her schizophrenia because, as she explains to her psychiatrist husband, "I'm finding the drug very hard to work behind." + Unwilling to face what may follow, the husband goes ahead with plans to take their two children on a visit to his parents in South Africa. His departure leaves the star alone to face her "Long Friends," hallucinatory specters that have attended her since her Louisiana childhood. She must also deal...
...Rickard's parishioners, Lu Ryden, was elected to the San Jose city council in 1980 and last year successfully sponsored a law that required sex magazines to be placed behind opaque shields on newsstands. Says she: "We as Christians have stood aside and let other people make the rules. It got so out of hand, we said enough is enough." Another Los Gatos member, Police Lieutenant Richard Couser, 34, won a seat on the regional school board...
...embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide Mihçioĝlu, 42, the wife of the embassy's chargé d'affaires, and her son Atasay...
...windows out of the first-floor room. As a wounded Atasay slid down the residence staircase to safety through the billowing smoke, security policemen, accompanied by the distraught charge, dashed into the damaged building. On the ground floor, they found the fatally burned Cahide Mihçioĝlu; upstairs, a Portuguese policeman lay dead not far from the charred corpses of the four assailants...