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Law in War on Far-Right Sect White Supremacists Tied to Western Crime Spree By ROBERT L. JACKSON and RONALD J. OSTROW, Times Staff Writers right-wing sect in the West that has been inked to nine months of violent crimes seemingly patterned after a 1978 nove! in which white supremacists and tax protesters The 12-yeer-old group, known as the Aryan Nations or the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, has been RARUE 3 | i sury Department, the Aryans are “as violent as any group we've ever encountered.” cadre of 100 to 150 persons. According to Wes McCune, exec- utive director of Group Research Inc. of Washington, a nonprofit organization that monitors far- right activities, the Aryans are loosely allied with the Ku Khux tant tax-revojt group. Gordon Kahl, one of that group’s leaders, was kil! 4 in a 1983 ahoot-out with guthorii.«; .n Arkansas, more than a year after he killed a U.S. marshal and a deputy and wounded a police As a result, the Aryans have Grawn special attention and ex- — hervpee of concern from Stanley Morris, director Marshals Service, some of whose officers have been shot or assaulted ground group ries,” written by acknowledged racist ist William Pierce of Arlington, a Some activities of Mathews and his followers closely paralleled events in the novel, officials say, ants have turned up four cross- booby-traps, infrared night-vision scopes, 100 sticks of