European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books first dog Millie tells about life in White House Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush Morrow 141 pp., $17.95 Tom Blackburn Cox news service bowwow a said Millie. A the alarm goes off at 6 . The Prcz says that i go off a few minutes earlier by shaking my cars pretty hard in their faces a wrote Barbara Bush. Sec Millie write. Sec the first lady take dictation. That a the theory behind the first dogs Book. We arc dealing with Pratt amp Whitney powered cute. With nuclear Nice. We Are where diabetics dare not go. We arc in the area of relations Between a dog and her owners where reverential Awe seems to be called for but is difficult to maintain. Ftp a hard to know whether to laugh or to cry to clap ones hands or to recoil in horror. Its for a Good cause. Barbara Bush wrote this dogs Cyc View of the White House with oodles and scads of photos of the Springer Spaniel to raise Money for the Barbara Bush foundation for family literacy which gets the royalties. Tennis games with Art Buchwald have been auctioned for Good causes. And tons of schlock Art. Why not a White House dog Book Quot Millie a books has color photos of the cute dog playing with the cute grandchildren also known As Quot the  it has pictures of the first dog with Dan Quayle Lee Iacocca Thomas a a tips o Neill Queen Noor Barbara Bush and Millie their Best seller is a bit of a dog but who cares of Jordan Teresa Stratas Bjorn Borg Audrey Hepburn and others too numerous to mention. Sam Donaldson does not cuddle Millie in his picture but Diane Sawyer does. There a also a shot of Millie with Mildred Kerr of Houston Texas the Friend of the Bushes for whom Millie is named. The wildest pictures Are on pages 46 and 47. They show the president of the United states and Leader of the free world rolling on the Lawn with Millie a pups. The president is wearing a suit and tie. Not since Richard Nixon arranged for photos of himself walking brooding by along a Beach in his wingtips has presidential style clashed so loudly with presidential action. There is also an obscenely cute picture of Millie and three congressional Republican dogs dressed up in party hats for a pet fete. A Don Rhodes of course chaperoned me at the party a Millie reports a because bar Barbara Bush said that a 2-year-old is just not mature enough to go out alone on a Date a Millie courts controversy. She reports that president Reagan had domesticated the White House squirrels to take nuts out of his hand. When Millie moved in a pow she says a she nailed four of those suckers. She also got three rats and a to bars great sorrow a a Pigeon. Stand by for protests from Squirrel lovers. A a Millie a books is dated already. She says her Pup Ranger is living in Florida but recent news reports put Ranger Back at the White House because the kids did no to have room for him. It turns out that a dogs Day at the White House has a lot of Down time so Millie fills out the Book with a tour of the White House family quarters. As a decorating analyst Millie is of a the yellow Oval room has a very exciting history. It was a family Library for that rambunctious Teddy Roosevelt  but you can learn More from a the living White House a which is published by the White House historical association for Sale to tourists. Its hard to imagine a Republican Coffee table without a a Millie a  and its hard to picture even a Springer Spaniel actually Reading it. The Book Wilt be available in stars and stripes  lady Boss by Jackie Collins Simon amp schuster 608 pp., $21.95 fans of Jackie Collins two books featuring heroine Lucky Santangelo will undoubtedly enjoy this third instalment. This time around the hotel nag Nat married to a movie Star has her acquisitive Eye on Panther studios and her heart set on becoming a movie Mogul. But the owner Abe Panther wont sell until Lucky agrees to go undercover As a Secretary for a few weeks and get the dirt on what a going on behind the scenes. And this being Hollywood and this being Collins a under cover is the operative phrase for every Little intrigue from the boardroom to the boudoir. A new crowd of characters makes for some interesting allusions there a Platinum haired Venus Maria billed As a a american a most sensual video superstar. Who loves to Shock Quot a but Don 7 get the idea she a drawn from a real life superstar. There scooper Turner the aloof but gorgeous actor director who a dated every Hollywood Lovely who a made headlines a but done to get the idea he a drawn from a real life one time Glamour Guy turned director. Then there a Martin Swanson new York business tycoon Extraordinaire with a foreign born wife a but done to get the. Well you get the idea. It All adds up to another Collins Romp among the glitzy. Kathleen Silvassy United press International once upon a time when we were coloured by Clifton Taulbert Council Oaks books $16.95 growing up in Glen asian miss., in the 1950s, Clifton Taulbert a heroes lived in his neighbourhood. They shielded him from the harshness of segregation encouraged his entrepreneurial instincts and worked with him nightly to Complete his Homework. Taulbert celebrates this extended family in his Book a tribute to the last decade of Southern Black life before the civil rights movement he began writing it 20 years ago when a Roommate in the air Force asked about his youth. Although some May find Little about a segregated America that bears nostalgia and some May not be charmed by Taulbert a portraits he has evoked such Loving memories of Glen Allan and its residents that readers will come away at least a Little sorry that they did no to grow up there too. Gary Libman los Angeles times Blank Check the Pentagon a Black budget by Tim Weiner Warner 273 pp., $21.95 this Well researched Well written and Well argued Book which describes the department of defense a secret funds and the amazing ways in which they Are raised and spent leads to certain conclusions. Among them on the few occasions when facts about the secret a Black budget have been available to Congress and the Public the Only deduction one could make from the Cost Benefit ratio was that a group of Larcelous crackpots was contriving to enrich itself at the Public expense. Here we learn of a $36 billion slush fund immune from any species of scrutiny or accountability and controlled by three people Only one of whom is elected. The president the Secretary of defense and the Cia chief Are Able to Call on this fund for Covert wars espionage and a a specialized nuclear projects Many of which could not Bear the Light of Public inspection. The Book claims that the general military Industrial practice of concealment and disinformation is still in effect. And when one examines what the Book has unearthed the motive for this concealment a personal profit a becomes painfully Clear. Christopher Hitchens new Day All books Are or will be available at stars and stripes  16 c to plus sunday november 4,1990