European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best Sellers fiction 1 h 3 43 ?%4 vhf t. 4 t the Burden of proof by Scoll Turow last week 1 weeks on list 3 a. Message from Nam by Danielle steel last week 2 weeks on list 2. Of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 3 weeks on list 19 a the stand by Stephen King last week 4 weeks on list 8 5 dragon by Clive Cussler last week 6 week amp i list b 6 the Bourne ultimatum by Robert Ludlum last week 7 weeks on list 16. 7 september by Rosamunde Pilcher last week 5 weeks on list 11. A. A the outlaws of Mesquite by Louis l amour last Veek 10 weeks on list 5 9 an inconvenient woman by Dominick Dunne last Veek 8 weeks on list 8. 10 the Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh Las Veek 9 weeks on list 7. Non fiction 1 2 3 4 5 a i9 in a to 1 1 12 f 3 Feis a 4 be 5 6 7 8 9 110 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 men at work by George f. Will last Veek 1 weeks on list 12. Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry last Veek 2 weeks on list 5 Don t shoot it s Only me by Bob Hope Vith Melville Shavelson last Veek 3 weeks on list 4 father son and co. By Thomas j. Watson or. And Peter Petre last Veek 14 weeks on list 3. Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John he iyar last Veek 7 weeks on Lisl 23 Meg trends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene last Veek 4 weeks on list 23. In the Arena by Richard Nixon last Veek 14 weeks on list 10. It was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum last Veek 6 weeks on list 41 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum last Veek 8 weeks on list 85 liar s poker by Michael Levis last Veek 11 weeks on list 34 a paperback fiction the Joy Luck club by Amy Tan weeks on Lisl 6 the Russia House by John Decarre weeks on list 2 while my pretty one sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark first Veek on list capital crimes by Lavrence Sanders first Veek on list Garden of lies by Eileen Goudge weeks on list 2 murder at the Kennedy Center by Margaret Truman first week on list creature by John Saul weeks on list 5 Dey of the cheetah by Dale Brown weeks on list 5 a prayer Tor Owen Meaney by John Irving weeks on list 9. A Knight in shining Armor by Jude Deveraux weeks on list 4. A paperback non fiction when a Rabbit howls by Truddie Chase weeks on list 3. All 1 really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 32 a Brief history of time by Stephen hawking weeks on list 4 a woman named Jackie by c. David Heymann weeks on list 6 it s always something by Gilda Radner first week on list. Our Story new kids on Tho Block first week on list love and marriage by Bill Cosby weeks on list 8 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 349 summer of 49 by David Halberstam weeks on list 12 fatherhood by Bill Cosby weeks on list 50 paperback miscellaneous 1 weirdos from another Taneu by Bill Watterson weeks on Lisl 15 2 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 19. 3 so simple things you can do to save the Earth by the earthworks group weeks on list 21 4 codependent no More by Melanie Beattie weeks on list 95. 5 the to Factor fat Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle weeks on list 8 compiled by the new York times stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 the stand by Stephen King 2 dragon by Clive Cussler 3 Bright Star by Harold Coyle 4 the bad place by Dean Koontz 5 message from Nam by Danielle steel 6 death Gate Cycle dragon Wing by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman 7 the Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh s g is for Gumshoe by sue Grafton. 9 the Bourne ultimatum by Robert Ludlum 10 Skinny legs and All by Tom Robbins non fiction 1 men at work by George will 2 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum. 3 Meg trends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene a 4 barbarians at the Gale by Bryan Burrough and John he iyar 5 Garbo by Antoni Granowicz _ 0 head first by Norman cousins 7 Means of ascent by Robert Caro 8 in the Arena by Richard Nixon. 9 legacies by Bette Bao lord 10 Kareem by Kareem Abdul Jabbar a cleans up its Horley after he took office veterans administration Secretary Edward a Derwin Kiwas presented with a six i Page Fetter to Send a veterans widow. She feared the a which had treated her husband might make his alcoholism pub tic. \ the proposed Tetter drafted by the vans Legal staff cited the applicable Laws on privacy and record keeping a was Only a lawyer can Quot Derwinski recalled recently. A it was six pages of gobbledygook. I Tore it up in a fit of  in its place Derwinski drafted a three paragraph letter. His first paragraph expressed regret Over her husband s death the second assured her Quot no one will know Quot of her husband s medical condition and the third urged her to write him if she had any further questions Derwinski said. The incident which the Secretary told at a meeting of a correspondence managers last month was a vivid illustration of his demand that the huge a bureaucracy return to the use of a Plain old fashioned  letters should be simple direct and whenever possible a should show some feeling a Derwinski said. Derwinski who spent 24 years in Congress with a carefully trained letter writing staff behind him has made improving the vans language a High priority. It is part of his Effort to change the department s image As an uncaring bureaucracy. A the classic Rule in a bureaucracy is that if you can say it in 10 pages say it in 10 pages a he complained. Determined to instill a belief that Brevity is better Derwinski had James s. Of Rourke an air Force language specialist critique a messages. Then of Rourke a Cambridge University trained English professor delivered his findings a served up with plenty of humor a to the a managers. In the 12 years he has been tracking the Way bureaucrats use the language of Rourke said he has run across some great phrases. Among his favourites a a sea air interface climatic disturbances for Waves. A Quot electronically adjusted color coded vehicular flow control mechanism Quot for a traffic Light ,. A a individual Aerial deceleration much an ism for parachutes. A a combat emplacement Cvack Atory for shovel. Bureaucrats also tend to overuse individual words often preferring Long ones to Short ones. A a optimum and a a utilize arc the most overworked words in the government lexicon of Rourke said. Workers should use a a bests and a use Quot he said but shun them because they Are so Short but o Rourke said he believes the Quality of writing in the government has improved in recent years. He singled out the military which he said has made major strides. Then he tempered it by adding that the services had to improve because a the writing was so bad it was causing problems. Washington pos july 1, 1990 sunday Page 9