
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 1, 1993                   TAG: 9312010092
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PEOPLE

In a London event almost devoid of ceremony, George Bush on Tuesday received from Queen Elizabeth the highest honorary citation Britain can confer on a foreigner.

The former president was declared a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of Bath at a private Buckingham Palace lunch with the queen, Prince Philip and Barbara Bush. There was no kneeling and, as an American, Bush will not be dubbed "Sir."

No media types were present and there were no reports of table talk.

The only other American to be so honored since World War II was Ronald Reagan.

Though Geffen Records continues to stay mum about a Charles Manson-written song's being on the new Guns N' Roses album released Tuesday, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections said he was asked to forward a royalty agreement to the convicted killer.

And a friend of the band, Richard Lemmons, said Manson, 59, stands to earn "more money than he ever has his entire life" for the unlisted last track on "The Spaghetti Incident?" album, "Look at Your Game, Girl." (If the LP sells a million copies, Manson will get about $60,000.)

Lemmons said he gave the band a tape of the song three months ago and Axl Rose "went nuts over it." He also said that Rose's "Thanks, Chaz" at the end of a ballad on the album is his salute to the murderer.

Patricia Bowman, who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape, has helped set up courses on crime victim services at Palm Beach Atlantic College in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Said she: "I received so many letters during my ordeal from all kinds of crime victims and my concern was: Who will help these people?"

Zsa Zsa Gabor and Elke Sommer are fighting this week in a Santa Monica, Calif., court. Sommer, 52, has sued her fellow aging sexpot for $10 million for saying such things as Sommer's penniless, hangs out at sleazy bars and survives by knitting and selling sweaters.

On the stand Monday, Gabor, 73, denied that she ever said such things, but added that Sommers "bad-mouthed me six years ago." She was referring to a 1984 interview with a German magazine in which Sommer commented unkindly on Gabor's anatomy.

by CNB