European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bubble and squeak at freds Caff of to breakfast by Apple new York times to eat Well in said Somerset an englishman born in France who beat it Back there to live As soon As he had the you should have a breakfast three times a the full cooked English As people there like to Call has survived the onslaught of Continental european eating habits but Coffee and Crois or Tea and Muesli a Swiss form the morning meal of Many according to one National opinion 47 percent of the population ate a Home cooked breakfast in but the figure had dropped to Only 19 percent 20 years one person in five makes do with nothing More than Coffee or even those britons who do eat something cooked before starting their Days activities often limit themselves to fairly spartan prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her a reduces James begin most Days with the same thing half a a boiled Toast and Marme Thatcher has Coffee Callaghan prefers Indian few follow the advice of Isabella the guru of British Cooks in the 19th who decreed in an Early edition that a Good if enjoyed and gives the support necessary for the mornings for a family breakfast on a thursday in she suggested the following menu hot Mutton cutlets and Fried and like their american and Continental Many britons have come to share the View of the late Morton an eminent English who once de scribed breakfast As an essentially unsociable an appropriate time to choose for Dis inheriting ones natural few would agree with that new England aesthete and sometime american Consul at Nathaniel that within has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and Well provisioned breakfast keeps alive the tradition of breakfast kippers and ked Geree a melange of Rice and eggs and Frumento hulled wheat boiled in milk and Flavoured with country people great and truck construction travellers on Long haul trains presume actor Robert British rail takes a lot of As the English about its dining car lord the made a terrible fuss a few years ago when he could no longer get kippers on his morning run from Brighton to More there have been screams about five years a full breakfast Cost at today s rate of Exchange now it costs for a passenger gets half a Grapefruit or juice or porridge or Cereal a mixed Grill containing an a Fried Pota Bacon and a sausage Toast with and Tea or but breakfasts at one of London most new York times Laurance 2 few English breakfast at the elite Claridge they cant afford elite which has the reputation of serving particularly Good breakfasts but indifferent lunches and Din Are even More costly than on a recent two people managed to get through without much one of them had to Mato a marmalade and Coffee the other had Orange two Fried eggs and Coffee and a Small bottle of Perrier the food was very Good although the Orange juice was not freshly squeezed and the As arrived on one of those cunning Silver Racks that positively insure that it will be cold and hard by the time it gets to the very few English go to breakfast at they cant afford Many of them eat just As Well at Small storefronts known As transport cafes there the word is pronounced there the rough equivalent of the old fashioned american and every up and the they Are almost exclusively by men who do hard physical one of the Best such cafes in London is at 40 Aberfeldy Street near the docks of the East freds Doest have a Headwater in a Wing As at it Doest have Linen napkins in it has no napkins at it Doest have a big urn of fresh carnations on the sideboard and Art Deco Wall lamps its decor runs to pictures of Royal air Force jets and posters showing the stars of television shows like Dallas and Charlies but freds has Fred Cockburn in the and his behind the she Calls almost everyone by the first or else she Calls them every Between 6 and 11 she serves 75 or More most of them you can have two Fried eggs and two slices of Toast with Marma and a cup of Tea for theres no service for those with More exotic there Are Kip pers at Haddock with two poached eggs on top at and Bubble and squeak at 48 Bubble and for the is a Cockney creation consisting of last nights mashed potatoes and a bit of last nights mixed together and one Day this two trencher men ate themselves into a stupor with Eileen cock Burns help for and at the Toast always arrives piping lying on a no slate depts search fora minority appointee Ginger a Deputy assistant Secretary of up by Jim Anderson United press International Fred Cockburn budget this definitely was not your usual Runof the Mill help wanted it the department of state will have an opening for a Deputy assistant Secretary of that the kind of paying around a year and All the prestige you can that used to be handed around on the old boy network of pinstripes As a certified ticket of admission into the a guaranteed stepping Stone to big Money and East coast so Why was such a position being next to the sales directors and the pinball in newspapers like the san Francisco chronicle and the Honolulu Sta bulletin the Story begins with Cyrus then Secre tary of state and himself a certified member of the he became a convert to the concept of affirmative action giving women and racial minorities a boost Over White males in order to make the foreign service More representative of the country it works when the Job opened up in the East asian Bureau of the Vance passed Down the order that an affirmative action candidate should fill that meant he wanted a minority preferably an preferably a the order came to the assistant Secretary for the asian Richard himself a somewhat unorthodox political he is a former editor who was once formally reprimanded by his state department superiors for hitching rides in Vances car and discussing business with the Secretary of state without first being cleared by Vances Phalanx of Holbrooke i insisted that it be a qualified per and we dont have a Pool of qualified minority peo ple of that rank in the state the advertise ment was the Compromise we worked placed in seven papers around the the and Drew about 300 responses retired and Active Mili tary and it also said a formal protest from a senior american livid that his department of state should have to go to the outside to fill such a Job which used to go automatically to people like the applications were sorted out by a search commit tee headed by Paul a China expert who happened to be serving in another the committee first ranked the applications without giving any weight to race or sex of the by then there were no professional diplomats left on the qualified list of about 50 that list was further culled by Holbrooks it came Down to four women and two three were All six were eminently successful in their Fields of teaching and on the list was Ginger at the youngest of the group she is a a san Francisco born chinese Ameri can with Strong ethnic ties to her and with demonstrated abilities at handling a High powered Job and a knowledge of the area with which she would be the Western her current Job was chief enforcement officer for the department of Energy on the West except for the fact that she was graduated from a prestigious Law school californian Boalt Gin Ger Lew was the exact opposite of what a senior state department official used to in a she was an affirmative action personnel officers she also happened to be and so Holbrooke hired Holbrooke she would have gotten the regardless of her racial but the fact is that she was hired after Vance gave what amounted to a direct order that he would like to see an asian american Wom an fill the she is aware of the protests about her from career officials and one objection that was posed by the american foreign service a sort of Trade Union for professional Afsa supports the general idea of making the depart ment More racially representative but complains that too Many top state department jobs that should be going to professionals Are going to when the Opportunity presents you can either be or you can take the she after if you dont you dont she i am appalled at How few asian americans there Are in the state department but she puts much of the blame on the cultural traditions of asian communities in this she believes that part of her is to be a role Model for other asian americans and make them aware of the possibilities outside Chinatown and their that has been the distinguishing Mark of lews Ca As an assistant attorney general in los and As a lawyer for the department of Energy and Environ mental Protection she is a determined Young woman who says she Doest see a lot of difference in negotiating a Domestic agreement Over environmental control and negotiations involving other the state which has a Way of under mining and demoralizing outsiders who dont fit is waiting outside Ginger lews door to test her Holbrooke takes a mixed View about the whole pro he says he is delighted with her being but the process was so controversial within the department that i would never do it Shes a remarkable per but i took a lot of heat on this Page 14 the stars and stripes january 1081 the stars and stripes Page 15