European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bestseller fiction 1 heartbeat by Danielle steel last week 1 weeks on Jis 2 a. A a2 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz last week 2 weeks on a list 6a a a a a Quot 3 forgiving by Lavyrle Spencer Las week 5 weeks on list 3 a 4 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre last week 3 a weeks on list .8 a. A a Quot a a a a a a a. 5 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 6 a weeks on list 20. A 6 the old contemptible by Martha Grimes last week. 10. Weeks on. List 3 a a. 7 magic hour by Susan Isaacs last  8 weeks on a a a list 4 8 Battleground by . Griffin last week 4 weeks on list 6 1 9 Possession by . Byatt last week 7 weeks on list 10 10 the fourth k by Mario Puzo last week 9 weeks on list 8 non fiction 1 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 1. Weeks on list 15. .2 the prize by Daniel Yergin last week 2 weeks on list 5 3 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and Keo Burns last week 4 weeks on list 21 4 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt last week 3weeks on list 16. A a. 5 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 7 weeks on list 23 a. 6 Patrimony by Philip Roth last week 6 weeks on list. 6 7 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last. Week 5 weeks on list 30 t 8 the spiritual life of children by Robert Coles last. Week 8 weeks on list ?. 9 and the sea will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce b. Henderson last week 9 weeks on list 3 a 10 the new russians by Hedrick Smith last week 11 weeks on list 7 a Quot a a paperback fiction 1 the silence of the lambs by Tlam Maryw Iris weeks. Quot on list 20 a a 2 dances with wolves by Michael Blake weeks on list a 12 3 Caribbean by James a. Michener weeks on list 5 4 a ruling passion by Judith Michael weeks on Liet 5 5 devices and desires by . James weeks on list 5 6 the Anastasia Conquest and other stories by Mary Higgins Clark weeks on list 2 7 straight by Dick Francis first a Eikon list 18 harmful intent by Rob in Cook weeks on list 6 it 9 the Gold coast by Nelson de Mille first week on list 10 Bright Star by Harold Coyle first week on list paperback non fiction 1 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l Friedman weeks on list 29. A a 2 the rape of Kuwait by Jean p. Sasson weeks on list 5 3 Saddam Hussein and the crisis in the Gulf by Judith \ Miller and Laurie Mylroie weeks  5 4 not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoodi with a Wiliiam hotter weeks on list 7. A. 5 a peace to end All peace by David Fromkin first. Week on list. 6 How to defeat Saddam Hussein by Trevor n Dupuy Cuit Johnson David l. Bongard and Arnold c. Dupuy. I a a first week on list  a. A it. A a 7 armageddon Oil and the Middle East by John f. 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Auel 2 four past Midnight by Stephen King 3 the secret Pilgrim by John be carry 4 the fourth k by Mario Puzo a5 the witching hour by Anne Rice _ _ 6 dazzle by Judith Krantz 7 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. 8 vital signs by Robin Cook. A 9 the Rowan by Anne Mccaffrey 1 _ 10 Longshot by Dick Francis non fiction 1 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and. Ken Burns a. 2 Iron John by Robert Bly. Quot 3 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt. 4 the new russians by Hedrick Smith 5 songs of the doomed by Hunter s. Thompson 6 Power shift by Alvin Toffler 7 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush 8 to knows to by to Jackson and Qick Schaap 9 gel to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey. A �?�10 the great Waldo search by Martin landlord soldiers a Eye View of Napoleons Battles this autumn Doubleday plans to publish what it says is the Only known account by an Ordinary Soldier of Napoleons campaigns in Prussia Poland and Russia the Memoir titled a the diary of a Napoleonic foot Soldier a was written by Jakob Walter Between 1830 and 1856 and Given to Quot a son who settled in Kansas. Although published in 1938 in a journal trom the University of Kansas the Memoir. Has been virtually unknown since. The Memoir was brought to the attention of Jacqueline Onassis a Doubleday senior editor by Vartan Gregorian the president of Brown University in Providence r.i., and formerly the president of the new York Public Library. The Doubleday edition will include an introduction by Marc Raeff a specialist on the soviet Union together with six additional letters by German conscripts who served with Walter. A the new York times an excellent Lead is easy to follow James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate Quot a Quot Quot very professor who teaches the writing Art should devote a couple of t weeks to a single topic the Lead sem b j tence. In. The writing of prose a con. Elusive ending is desirable and a Well developed Middle is essential but it is the Lead that can make or break a composition. It its Angeles times columnist Jack Smith recently recalled a few memorable leads. They had one thing in common they were Short. Not Many people have read All of a moby Dick a but almost every student of literature can quote the first line a Call me  m. Cain began Quot the postman always rings twice Quot with nine words a they threw me off the Bay truck about  Billie Holliday began her autobiography with a perfect on two punch a mom and pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was 18, she was 16, and 1 was 3.&Quot a Brevity a said polonius a is the soul of  let us apply the old gentleman a Maxim to the matter at hand. Some leads have a beguiling Quality. In a citizens Quot Simon Schama lured his readers into the French revolution a Between 1814 and 1846 a plaster elephant stood on the site of the  John Dos passes in a the shackles of Power a grabbed us with a come on opening line a Thomas Jefferson was an Early  in a Freedom a William Safirt introduced us to chief Justice Roger Taney a getting up the Steps to the Bench was a  now pay attention to this one a the annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with All the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually can Sumes and which consist always either in the immediate produce of the labour or in what is purchased with that produce from other min  that was Adam Smiths Lead to a the wealth of  it May explain Why everyone pro fesses to have read the classic work though no one Ever has read another line of  Lead is vital to any writing whether one is writing a novel a Short Story a Book review a term paper a newspaper a Diioria or a homily to be read in eur Cleon sunday. The Lead sentence is the writers baited Hook. If it is skilfully cast the fish will bite. I done to mean to suggest that every Lead should be Short but As a working Rule Short is better than Long. Arid for this reason Many readers have a natural resistance to it Reading. Other diversions and occupations press upon them. They May be Reading out of a compulsion that is real or implied. Certain things Are known As a must . To overcome this resistance the a incise Lead performs a useful function. In one tug it pulls the Reader across the threshold. The most difficult step has been taken the rest should be easier. A Quot a. A March 3, 1991. Sunday a Page 9