European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes wednesday december 17,1086 columns today s Cross Wordbook prices Rise with inflation by Andy Rodney one of the things that Kepi surprising me is the Price of a new Boot with the exception of the Price of a hotel room nothing Bai gone up More. Fortunately for the people in the Book business Cui Tomen under stand that a Book is a better buy at 117.9i thin hotel room is at s12j. Five Yean later you still enjoy having the Book. When you think of Book u a permanent Possession and not temporary acquisition it s easier to come up with the $ 17.95. I like bookstores. I d rather spend in new in a Bookstore than two hours at the movies. 1 like libraries too but libraries Are different. Libraries ire Book museums. Books torn owners Are special people. They re Inlove will their merchandise. Most of them ire in Busi Ness not for he Money but for the books. I feel sorry for the owners of Small bookstores Beo Iuse of people Tike me. They must View me with mixed emotions. I come in All the time and i obviously like their stores but i Only buy something about one out of every 10 limes i m there. The other times i leave having Sam pled their wares to an extent that would put a Delica Tessen out of business if did the same thing there. Bookstore owners must feel toward me the Way a Clergyman feels toward a parishioner who attends Church every sunday but does t usually put anything in the plate. When i was 24 years old i had my lint Book published. Ii was called air gunner and was written with my Friend Bud Hullon. We told of our experiences with the 8th air Force during Wii. You can imagine the thrill of coming Home from the War As Anzio a month sergeant 10 find a Check from the pub Lisher in the mail and a Book you d written in Bookstore windows everywhere. My eighth Book word for word has just been published la is Only slightly less exciting for me and i m even More attentive than us Aho bookstores. I Goin hoping no one recognizes me and i surreptitiously look around to Sec if my Book is displayed in a prominent place. Having Book published is one of the til time Mol satisfying experiences. It can t be matched by 10,000 hour of appearing on television. There it a that tidy Little package that represents to much of yourself. Unfortunately for writers and individual Bookstore owners publisher and bookstores both hive acquired some of the less pleasant practice of other Commer Cial enterprises. Every Good publishing House has some Good editors who Are devoted to writers and their wort but Overall publishers these diet ire de voted More to sales than literature. Small Bookstore Are in the same position with the big chains today Ashe neighbourhood grocery stores were 25 Yean ago when the supermarkets moved in. That lint Book air gunner sold about 11,000 copies. Today with a sales potential thai Small the manuscript would hardly interest a major publisher. I would have been difficult for me to get a Tut pub Lishers Are All looking for the blockbuster. When publishers accept Book and print it the expect the author to go on the Road and appear on every television and radio show their promotion peo ple can arrange. Having written the Book is no longer enough for an author to have accomplished. He s expected to go Oul and sell it. If the Bible were written today the publisher would expect Matthew Marie Luke and John to make personal appearances on the today show Donahue and Johnny  you can see Bryant Gumbel holding the Bible up tothe camera and saying i understand you Fellows each have a different version of what happened. Perhaps you can Tell us a Little bit about the Book right after this commercial  the publisher has is sates gimmick for my Book. The and reads special word for word $14.95 be fore Christmas j16.95 after Christmas you Wanna bet cd Neun Ltd ii so twi ouf of touch inf cafe the Beltway Byar Buchwald when president Reagan lost his Cool in an inter View with time Magazine he said the letters coming in Are in my favor. This is a Beltway bloodletting. Frankly i believe that As the truth comes out people will see what we were doing was  Cia director Bill Casey was quoted As saying hat the iranian affair was of interest Only 10 people in Side the  i have to assume that the entire country has no idea what the president meant when he referred to Bell Way bloodletting or what Casey meant when he talked about people inside the  therefore i will take time to explain it. For some years now reference has been made in Washington to people who live inside the 11 Means those who Are out of sync with the rest of the country. They Are so involved in their Little world of bureaucracy and pack journalism they cannot hear what song America is singing. The Beltway phrase first cropped up on conservative talk shows and is now used to jeer those of More Liberal persuasion. When you talk about someone who lives inside the Beltway you Are saying the person has lost All touch with reality. He is narrow minded ignorant and won stand up for the . Thus you have the president of the United slate blaming those who reside inside the Beltway for his troubles in Iran and Nicaragua and the head of the Cia using the Beltway to cover up his role in the Rube Goldberg scandal. First the facts. The Beltway is a Concrete necklace 66 Miles Long which circles parts of Virginia washing ton . And Maryland. Six Hundred thousand vehicles Are driven around it every Day including 23,000trucks loaded with spare parts for Israel which will eventually be shipped to Iran. Several million people reside inside the  of them Are Law abiding citizens except for a few who play Golf at the Chevy Chase country club. People who live inside the Beltway eat Kiwi fruit prefer Reebok running shoes and read  playboys a month. Because of their Beltway lifestyle they lend to be More promiscuous than citizens in other parts of the country. Since they Are squished together so tightly they have no Choice but to intermarry with other Belt Way residents which produces very thin blood. However it is not their Home lives but their think ing that separates them from other americans. Since most Beltway people work for the government they Are terribly suspicious As to what their Leaden Tell them. Also those inside the Beltway Are gun shy be cause they were the first ones Richard Nixon and his watergate gang dumped on. The present White House has no More use for the inner Beltway people than previous administrations. So it was no Accident that in nil fury the president would use the phrase Beltway bloodletting to sum up exactly what he thought was going on in Washington Reagan believes it was the knee Jerk reaction of the Beltway liberals thai stopped the government in its tracks and mined his Chance of becoming the Ayalon Lah Khomeini s pen pal. What do you do with people who live inside the Belt Way several of Reagan s Csc advisers have suggested bulldozing the entire area and making it into a secret Landing is i. To handle future Ouie North flights to Iran. 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