European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Best seller fiction 1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 1 weeks on list 2 2 lady Boss by Jackie Collins last week 3 weeks on list 4 3 four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 2 weeks on list 7 4 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon last week 4 weeks on list 10 5 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow last week 5 weeks on list 20 6 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez last week 6 weeks on list 6 7 the first Man in Rome by Colleen Mccullough last week 7 weeks on list 2 8 Longshot by Dick Francis first week on list 9 Buffalo girls by Larry Mcmurty last week 13 weeks on list 2 10 Rabbit at rest by John Updike last week 9 weeks on list 3 non fiction 1 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy last week 1 weeks on list 5 2 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns last week 2 weeks on list 3 3 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 3 weeks on list 5 4 gel to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey last week 4 weeks on list 6 5 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 5 weeks on list 13 6 darkness visible by William Styron last week 7 weeks on list 8. 7 bootleggers boy by Barry Switzer with Bud Shrake last week 6 weeks on list 7 8 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland armory last week 9 weeks on list 2 9 Friday night lights by . Bissinger last week 8 weeks on list 4 10 looking for a ship by John Mcphee last week 13 weeks on list 3 paperback fiction1 daddy by Danielle steel weeks on list 2 2 the dark half by Stephen King weeks on list 5 3 the minotaur by Stephen Coonts weeks on list 4 4 the secret diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch weeks on list 4 5 postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher weeks on list 5 6 California Gold by John Jakes weeks on list 4 7 oldest living Confederate woman tells All by Allan Gurganus weeks on list 5 8 presumed innocent by Scott Turow weeks on list 48. 9 so worthy my love by Kathleen e. Woodiwiss weeks on list 16 10 reasonable doubt by Philip Friedman first week on list paperback non-fiction1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 49 2 liars poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list 5 3 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 366 4 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 11 5 a Brief history of time by Stephen hawking weeks on list 21 6 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 7 7 among schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder weeks on list 7 8 exit the rainmaker by Jonathan Coleman weeks on list 3 9 love Medicine and miracles by Bernie s. Seigel weeks on list 113 10 it s always something by Gilda Radner weeks on list 16 paperback miscellaneous 1 the authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson weeks on list 5 2 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on list 112 3 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 2 4 the to Factor fat Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle weeks on list 25 5 the a late night with David Letterman Quot Book of top ten lists by David Letterman Steve o Donnell it Al first week on list compiled by the new York time stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 four past Midnight by Stephen King 2 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 3 lady Boss by Jackie Collins 4 message from Nam by Danielle steel 5 the women in his life by Barbara Taylor Bradford 6 hocus pocus by Kurt Vonnegut 7 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow 8 under siege by Stephen Coontz 9 Star trek prime directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens 10 the stand by Stephen King non fiction 1 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky 2 Trump surviving at the top by Donald Trump with Charles Leerhsen 3 darkness visible by William Styron 4 the politics of the Rich and poor by Kenneth Phillips. 5 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen 6 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry 7 peril and Promise by John Chancellor b wealth without risk by Charles j. Givens 9 men at work by George will10 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghu Muddy language is bad for Constitution James j. Kilpatric Universal press Syndicate the court of peeves irks and Crotchet concludes this session with a question from Gene Phillips who is attached to the 3rd army div. He has a constitutional complaint. The 26th amendment he observes contains two absurd assertions. The amendment reads a the right of citizens of the United states who Are 18 years of age or older to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United states or any state on account of taken literally which is a novel Way to take the Constitution the language docs indeed state that every citizen of the United states is 18 or older and further that even an infant american citizen has a right to vote. The court joins the complainant in wondering How this language got through both houses of Congress and three fourths of the slates without someone making the distinction Between a restrictive and non restrictive clause. But there it is. The court affirms the complaint but finds trouble in rewriting the language for greater precision. Maybe the amendment could have been phrased to say that a the right to vote of citizens of the United states who Are 18 years of age Quot etc., but it has an awkward ring. Gene Phillips says lie loves the English language. A it realty affects me when i come across the really Good use of words Quot said Phillips a civilian Public affairs specialist at Drake Cavern in Frankfurt Germany. Likewise when he noticed poor word use in the 26th amendment of the . Constitution he was compelled to do something about it. About a year ago Phillips was Reading the Constitution and it a just jumped out at him. What annoyed him most was that nobody in the elaborate process caught the error and prevented it from arriving in the document that is the supreme Law of the land. A i was just disturbed that we had thousands of people who make the Laws that we live under and they did no to know what they were saying a he said. A when you look at that. If they Are qualified to pass Laws they should be Able to say what they Phillips who has worked in journalism for 30 years said a people done to have a feel for language any but an unclear Constitution was Well unconstitutional. So he wrote to James j. Kilpatrick hoping to make the oversight Public. And now that it is in the limelight he Hopes somebody in Congress will Correct it. Gory Pomeroy Sta it writer october 20,1990 sunday to plus c
