European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Woodward Book added to menu of Gulf quickie books by Christopher Lehmann Haupt new York times Here really Are no seismic revelations. B in the commanders Bob Woodward a i rep or i nonmilitary decision making m a under president bus even the reported dissent of Gen. Colin l. Powell the chairman of he joint chiefs of staff to the military offensive undertaken by the Buslov administration to  troops a from Kuwait seems like a no Story in the full context Oft he Book. A As Woodward reports  preference for a to 1 icy old a  it a i n men to or a strangulation a As lie liked to think of it strikes the Reader More As a weak desire than a hardened position in the general a mind. A it Powell gave  another View in the natural course of things. And lest one think that Woodward a Book endorses his thinking there is plenty of evidence in the. Book against the position that  against Iraq night in Tho Long a in have worked a As Woodward reports in an introductory note his Book started out As a Broad gauged study of military and civilian leadership in the modern american defense establishment. Quot with the end of the cold War approaching it a a looked like a Good time to understand the de  now York Timas Louse  so a Subtle  but a a the december 1989 Panama invasion and More importantly the 1990 Gulf crisis changed All that. The military was not going to Quot play a smaller role in he new world As som bad expected. It was moving to Center stage. These. Two operations allowed me to study Posl Vielt Nani. Posl cold War military decision making in a  a 11 one Hud to boil Woodward a findings Down a a to u single newsworthy Point one would conc Kido that in the elaborate process of deciding How to handle the crises induced , Manuel. Antonio Noriega of Panama  Hussein of t Iraq president Bush underwent a Subtle process a a a of personalizing the  a or /. A. Perhaps the most pointed evidence of this occurs in a passage describing an inter Rcw Given David Frost by president Bush on dec 16 1990. Her Bush  and outrage at a 1 report on human rights violations carried out by the iraqis in Kuwait since the August invasion even though in Woodward a View the de scrip. Lion of torture a was Standard language for an o amnesty International report even for those on some of the key . Allies. A but this remains an extremely Subtle Point it is a hardly stressed and it is surrounded by hundreds of other examples of what went into an extensive series of Complex policy decisions All of them reported by the author As either direct quotes or. Paraphrases of what the members of a Large cast of characters were thinking. To the Surprise of this Reader and in contrast. To previous books of Woodward a the cumulative effect of the commanders is a Little on the Dull and scholarly Side. Most of the time in the commanders Wood Ward hits Ordinary shots. He tells us things either that we could easily have image died on our own or. That scholars and memoirist Are going to be writ a a a my 5. Or 10 years fro Liow pretty routine stuff.  a it the question  Ltd  latest work judging from the number of a. Quickie books lately published on Gen. Hnorman Schwarzkopf Saddam and the pc Sian Gulf �.campaign.,  still a very Large appetite but there for books on the War and this country Sall Loo fleeting moment of moral certainly. If you re still hungry then by All Means cat. V bit the Coni Manders while a very Superior sort of quickie Book is still a quickie Book. And because of that ills finally  the revenge of i he baby sat by Bill Watterson. An Dicks amp a Cocci. A Ltd this latest col Lection of Galvin and 11 of lies a 11 e i so n demonstrates his consummate Mastery of the newspaper comic Sti in deftly a a a balancing visual and verbal humor to depict t  of 6-year-old Calvin and Hobbes the Tiger Quot Watterson re creates the thoughts and feelings of a 6-year-old boy with uncanny accuracy Calvin and Hobbes is simply the Best comic is m mature strip in the papers today and Renge shows just How big a Gap Watterson will leave when he goes a Oil sabbatical ibis year. _ _ a a _ cd i Arles Solomon Quot los Angeles times. Skin deep by Timothy i Hallinan. A Dutton 3211 up Simeon grist follows the Best traditions of the los Angeles hard boiled private investigator a Knight errant trying to keep honest amid the filth and sch do k Gas things Uwe octopuses Are it Haw bugs reproduce. Are to Tami attracted id. Each other f  1 a Toby vane the to Star who grist is hired to watch in skin deep is a baby faced Beauty whose body Rany Given Lime is Likely to contain More pharmaceuticals than you neighbourhood drugstore. He also gets his kicks beating up women. The producers Are terrified that vanes Pec Dillos will become Public before then can get signatures on syndication contracts for his show so grist is showered with Money Ter a v keep the Stroul of trouble for a few a Coke to my of it t who Elk How people ate. Attracted to each other.  m then close their ese5 when to Hooch Days. Vane almost immediately slips his Leash. A Lew hours later one of the women with whom he sneaked out of a Nudie nightclub is found dead. Hallinan makes  care a about these people enough so you a Hope the postscript in which he discusses a real life counterparts of the characters is just More fiction. A Sharon Miller United press International fantasies by Beverly Sassoon pocket books Sloan Taylor a Model from California is being blackmailed by Layla Bronz a Magazine publisher wielding photos of one of Sloan cd a masochistic Central Park sex sprees. What develops is a stylish sexy Saga about  women and How they related to one another. A kik1 Olson new York times All books Are available at stars and stripes bookstores sunday May 26, 1991