European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best Sellers fiction 1 heartbeat by Danielle steel last week 1 weeks on list 4. Quot a 2 forgiving by Lavyrle Spencer last week 3, weeks on list 5. 3 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz last week 2, weeks on list 8. 4 the Eagle has flown by Jack Higgins first week on list. A a 5 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 6 weeks on list 22 6 magic hour by Susan Isaacs last week 4 weeks on. List 6 7 the old contemptible by Martha Grimes last week 7 weeks on list 5 a 8 Circle of friends by Maeve Bitchy first week on list 9 Possession by . Byatt last week 9 weeks on list 13. 8 Battleground by . Griffin last week 8 weeks on list 8 a non fiction 1 and the sea will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce. B. Henderson last week 2 weeks on list 5 2 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 1 weeks on list a 17>. A 3 the prize by Daniel Yergin last week 3 weeks on. List 7. A a a  a a 4 the next Century by David Halberstam last week 10 weeks on list 2 a ,. 5 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt last week 5 weeks on list 18, a 6 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 6 weeks on list 32 a. A 7 Millie s Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 5 weeks on list 25. A 8 make room or Danny by Danny Thomas with Bill / Davidson first week on list 9 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns last week 8 weeks on list 23 10 Patrimony by Philip Roth last week 7 weeks on list 8 Quot paperback fiction 1 the silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris weeks on list 22 a a a. \. A 2 the Bourne ultimatum by Robert Laudium weeks on a fist 2 a a a. A 3 Sitter Sweet by Lavyrle Spencer weeks on list 2 4 the Anastasia syndrome and other stories by Mary Higgins Clark weeks on list 4 a 5 dances with wolves by Michael Blake weeks on list. 14 a a. 8 straight by Dick Francis weeks on list. 37 the Gold coast by Nelson de Mille weeks on list 3 8 sleeping with the enemy by Nancy Price weeks on a list 4. A ? 9 Caribbean by James a. Michener weeks on list 7 .10. Bright Star by Harold Coyle weeks on list 3 paperback non fiction 1 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedr fian. Weeks on list 31. Quot. 2 not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoodi with William hotter weeks on list 9 r a 3 Saddam Hussein and the crisis in the Gulf by a Judith Miller and Laurie  weeks on list 7 4 the rape of Kuwait by Jean p. Sasson weeks on a list / a. A a a. A 5 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 69 6 a peace to end All peace by David Fromkin weeks on list 3 \ a a7 the search for the Green River killer by Carlton Smith and Tomas Guillen first week on list 8 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks. On list 384. 9 armageddon Oil and the Middle East by John of Walvoord weeks on list 3. 10 Meg trends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia. Aburdene weeks on list 6 paperback miscellaneous 1 All i need to know i Learned from my cat by Suzy Becker weeks on list 16 a. 2 the seven habits of highly effective people by. Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 13 3 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle weeks on list 33 a. / a a a a Quot 4 codependent no More by Melody Beattie first week on list \ a. 5 weapons of desert storm by Walter j. Boyne first week on list. A. /. Compiled by the new York times. Stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 heartbeat by Danielle Steele 2 cold fire by Dean Koontz ,. 3 the Plains of passage by Jean m Auel 4 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre 5 the fourth k by Mario Puzo 6 the witching hour by Anne Rice 7 four past Midnight by Stephen King 8 dazzle by Judith Krantz 9 vital signs by Robin Cook. 1 10 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton a a non fiction 1 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and. Ken Burns. ,. 2 Iron John by Robert Bly 3 financial self defense by Charles j. Givens 4 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt 5 the new russians by Hedrick Smith 6 the spiritual life of children by Robert Coles 7 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush 8 songs of the doomed by Hunter s. Thompson 9 Power soft by Alvin Tottler .10 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap a \ what did you say or. President Beverly Beyette the los Angeles limes Richard Nixon raised a few eyebrows in the 70s.when watergate tapes revealed him asking White House counsel John a mean 111, Quot have you kicked a few Butts around Quot True profanity and vulgarity were no strangers to some earlier residents at Kil 0 Pennsylvania ave. Harry Trinan was Given to calling Gen. Douglas Macarthur and other people he disliked sons of bitches. Still a certain amount of propriety has always been assigned to those who hold the office. So the by now famous George Bush ism a a kicking  Quot a appears to be one of the Jin Gustic revelations of the persian Gull War. The nation hardly managed a collective blink last december when the Media quoted Percsi Dent Bush As saying that it there were a War Saddam Hussein was a going to get his  kicked.�?�. Military and civilian leaders and would be top gun pilots promptly went around talking about a kicking  in the Middle Bast at Home front rallies in support of . Troops a kick butt placards sprouted alongside those proclaiming a god bless  on City streets a kick  Quot to shirts were spotted. Radio television and newspapers embraced variations on the theme quoting Bush Field commanders soldiers and grandmothers. Only six years earlier the same George Bush had kicked up a min storm after his television debate with democratic vice presidential hopeful Geraldine Ferraro. He told an official of the International longshore menus association that he had Quot tried to kick q Little .&Quot the remark was picked up by a to Crews Boom microphone and at a hews conference later in Birmingham ala., Bush found himself explaining himself. He said that a anybody who a Ever been involved in athletics particularly Texas athletics Quot knows that its a a Way of expressing  but this is it and linguistically speaking just about anything goes. Words said Edward Finegan professor of linguistics at the University of Southern Cali furnia go through a process in which they. Pass through a taboo stage into general a cup Lance a if you go Back to victorian times the word a pants was regarded As vulgar a he a. Pointed out. Dealing with vulgarities that have crept into common usage presents dilemmas for the Media. George Cotliar managing editor of. The los Angeles times said Quot we  c. Fer avoiding vulgarities a however Quot if the president of the United states is talking about going to War against another nation there Are. Certain things you re compelled to use i think. You know also its going to be lie sound Hite Over the Lead on every television . Alexandra Wilson an official with the i de. Elul communications commission said a kick  Quot is permissible on broadcast stations because it is not Quot patently offensive under contemporary Community  even Quot the of word Quot is permissible she said if used in a serious manner. And some newspaper executives say they would print that word albeit reluctantly if Bush said it. March 17, 1991 sunday Page 9