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...MALE NOVELISTS WITH A YEN to be Danielle Steel: a motorcycle will haul almost any load of sentimental mush. Robert Olmstead knows this. In his novel AMERICA BY LAND (Random House; $20), Ray Redfield, 23 and drifting, heads out on his Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming...
PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE; 218 PAGES...
...beauty or goodness, no faith or hope or love, no justice or mercy; only winning and losing in the churching game matters." Marty, a Lutheran, remarks that it is "lethal" to reshape churches around the claims of returnees who are ignorant of the heritage, or to capitulate to a "random selection of cravings, nurtured by non-Christian and anti-Christian forces...
...found not only security but also renown: Gwynne and TIME correspondent Jonathan Beaty won three major awards last year for their exposes of how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International ran a one-stop shopping center for criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies around the world. Random House will publish their jointly written book on B.C.C.I., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I., later this month...
...inch credo. The New Jersey defeat came just three weeks after Virginia, an NRA stronghold, adopted a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases. The aim was to discourage bulk buyers who had turned the state into a firepower exporter to street criminals everywhere. "People recognize that this random gun violence is out of control," says Susan Whitmore, communications director of Handgun Control, a lobbying group. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Minnesota have all adopted stronger gun-control legislation recently. Later this year Congress is expected to pass the so-called Brady bill, which requires a five- day waiting period...