European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best Sellers fiction 1 september by Rosamunde Pilcher last week 2 weeks on list 6 z the stand by Stephen King last week 1 weeks on list 3 3 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 3 weeks on list 14 4 dragon by chive Cussler last week 4 weeks on list 3 5 the Bourne ultimatum by Robert Ludlum last week 5 reeks on list 11 6 Skinny legs and All by Tom Robbins last week 6 weeks on list 6 7 an inconvenient women by Dominick Dunne last week 8 weeks on list 3 8 family pictures by sue Miller last week 9 weeks on list 3 g the Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh last week 15 weeks on list 2 10 Quot go is Lor Gumshoe by sue Gratton last week a weeks on list 3 non fiction 1 men at work by George f. 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Koontz Deacon one by Joe Weber any woman a blues by Erica Jong of the places you la go by or Seuss non fiction 1 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum Means of ascent by Robert Caro in the Arena by Richard Nixon Meg trends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene 5 barbarians at the Gale by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar 6 men at work by George will 7 secrets about men every woman should know by Barbara de Angelis 8 beware the naked Man who offers you his shirt by Harvey Mackay Call her miss Ross by Randy Taraborrelli 10 Power of the family by Paul Pearsal reviews against he Grain an autobiography by Boris Yeltsin Alfred a. Knopf 435 pp., $19.95 in assuming the newly created presidency of the soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachov chose to forgo the benefits of popular endorsement of his Rule in order to avoid the Quot inconvenience and Quot distractions Quot of competing for the office in a general election. The real reason might have been Gorbachev a fear that his erstwhile protege Boris Yeltsin would run against him. It May have been a close race for while Gorbachev no longer can count on the widespread support he had when he came to Power Yeltsin is immensely popular and seems to become More so with each attempt by his highly placed enemies to discredit him. But that is in the soviet Union. Abroad Gorbachev remains the undisputed Leader of the soviets. And it is highly unlikely that a against the Grain Quot a which is Short on political depth a will succeed in winning Yeltsin much of a foreign following it certainly will not have the International Impact of Gorbachev a far More polished  nevertheless Yeltsin will probably have a great Deal of Impact on the direction Gorbachev and the soviet Union Lake in the years ahead. It is a shame that he did not wait until this became Clear before writing what one Hopes will not be his final autobiography. Jeremy r.  Ijjas Angeles times Chung kilo Book i the Middle kingdom by David Wingrove delacorte 592 pp., $19.95 you know there a something strange about the future David Wingrove has created when a woman attended by what should be the Best doctors available Dies in childbirth. The year is 2190, and the entire planet Earth is Chung Kuo chinese for Middle kingdom what 20th Century westerners know As China. The woman s husband is one of the rulers of the seven huge multilevel cities that hold just about All of humanity and though technology has produced space colonics and androids Queens die in childbirth. Quot Chung Kuoy is both an engrossing Book and a future society with almost limitless Depths. Book one sets the stage for six More volumes in the series. Though Wingrove takes his time setting up the plots and people he needs to carry him through the series much of a Chung Kuoy is Edge of Lac seat action. Sharon Miller United press International when heaven and Earth changed places a vietnamese women a journey from War to peace by Ialy Lla slip and Jay Wurts plume $9.95 paperback a refugee from Vietnam remembers How the War looked through the eyes of a child in a Memoir that is a scaring and human account of Vietnam s destruction and self destruction. George Johnson new York times All books available Al stars and a Tripos bookstores Boris Yeltsin May 27,1990 sunday c Page 9