European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 12 the stars and stripes Hedrick Smith smokin6 Xci world the consummate operator fill i irs i we a new administration inevitably produce jockeying for Power and vigorous efforts at i Agemak in the Reagan Secretary of slate Alexander m big has quickly won a reputation As the Best most experienced bureaucratic and the most forceful in asserting his authority Over a Broad while others were slow to put together their sub Haig had his group largely chosen by the Lime of his own confirmation ills self Lake charge style of operation and his High Public pro softened a bit by touches of Sel Depre have already invited the mocking nickname military jargon for  of the As a former while House chief of North Atlantic i scaly com Mander and aide to Henry Kissinger in the National Security i big wasted no time at his Senate confirmation hearings in making Plain that he intended to prevent the kind of policy confusion and splits that dogged Llie Carter he asserted that president Reagan had named him the general manager of american immediately alter the inaugural while the Reagan entourage was still in for Mal the new Secretary was ready with a 20page it set out plans Lor Llie stale department to dominate the me Agency machinery that weaves to Gether the Trade and intelligence strands that go into the formulation of foreign some White House aides were stunned by what they regarded As an Early Power play mul said his memo was merely part of the pie Caralion Lor the new administration that had begun during the transition lie passed Oil his eagerness with a i was discussing that memo Llie other Day As Llie president was taking his first Shower in the while he re ports that he had approached the president with such a he were totally without basis in he had Given the memo not to Reagan but to the presidents Counselor and top policy i he dust from that episode had barely settled when i big Rose to do Battle with David a the budget director who proposed billion of the Kkt billion foreign Aid budget for belated rushed to the White House to a with a hastily drafted that it would be inconsistent with reagans Campaign pledges to bolster National Security Lor the budget cutters to slice so but Reagan let it be known that foreign Aid would feel the Pinch along with other pro Grams at a recent Cabinet agriculture Secretary John Block urged Reagan to carry out a Campaign pledge to lift the Gram embargo against the soviet Haig warned that this could remove a deterrent to a possible soviet invasion of to he that was a foreign policy the Issue was left at another Cabinet when talk turned to automobile Haig again contended that this was a foreign policy lie was said to have been More chagrined when defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger first said that the administration might produce and deploy the Neutron War setting off and angry re actions in Haig shot off cables As Suring the europeans that no decision would be made without consulting he subsequently huddled Over breakfast with Weinberger while the state department publicly contended that the press had exaggerated their All this Early squabbling was hardly the tidy style of diplomacy that Reagan had promised or i big had but the former general was ready to do if with congressional conservatives Over some of his sub Cabinet he was he that each and every one of my nominees and he re pealed my nominees although the White House had i hat these were All presidential choices will ultimately be i big performance so far has left other lop officials not Only awed but somewhat taken he acts More like an assist ant president than a coequal Cabinet Mem said one senior he Doest chime in on every Little thing that comes up in Cabinet but once he does you gel the feeling that he thinks theres nothing More that needs to be some of i big own aides and supporters comment that As the senior member of the Cabinet in he does not need to press ins authority quite so but including Cabinet members who have differed with deny that Haig is Over Praise him for his solid grasp of the issues and his quickness to project firm command of the stale department and a new policy among stale department the new Secretary has also been commended for Liis use of career diplomats and the Clar Ity of his Ive known Al Haig for a said one foreign policy specialist of i big performance so Hes a consummate the one thing i Wor ried about was whether he had a strategic but so in he Hast made a mistake on arid that what counts if new York Anthony Lewis do it yourself town in South Africa South Africa officially the place does not but 25 Miles North of Pretoria there it is a sea of squat Ter shacks spreading out Over the the tiny houses Are made of knocked Down packing cases and corrugated Iron strips the occasional better ones of mud Between and people live in the squatter settlement of Winter they have come during the last 30 under the pressure of South Afri Cas racial some were forced out of Pretoria itself when traditional Black areas were declared White others came be cause for 10 years the government forbade House building in the townships legally open to and they had nowhere else to it is a desolate in this Rainy sea son the red Clay soil is Cut by some families Are Lucky enough to live near a common Well others have to buy water from someone with a a people May live in one or two Small for All it is not a place without Down one dirt Road there is a Long Low building that looks like a of the squatter shacks in a it is a built by nearby families and run at their they Call it the Zenz Cle in a common Tongue of xhosa and some other South african Tri bal Means do it your there Are boys and girls in the they All Wear school uni forms White Black shorts or the parents buy the uniforms in the fee for a child is 4 Rands a just under i or the children there Are 10 each paid a month during tic school most of the families Are and the classes Are taught in except for mathematics and social which arc in i looked into a math seventy five children sat on benches most of the class rooms have no furniture the children sit on the on the blackboard the teacher had written what time has passed Between and the Lydia a Young woman in a smart skirt and Blouse and red Felt took me into the As she the students stood up and Good then one was called to recite and gave the right the school is a tribute to the of the human spirit see ing it should touch the coldest but Why should desperate people in Winter eld run a school at their own expense the answer lies in still further twists of South Africa racial Winter eld is in an area that South Africa has defined As part of the Homeland of the Tswana the consisting of seven Geo graphically separate enclaves inside South was declared in 1977 to be an inde pendent no other government  As a nor can a Visi Tor easily Tell when he is on the main Road from Pretoria not even a sign Marks the supposed in Winter eld i noticed three White South african police men driving but there is a  govern and it plays South Africa game of racial it favors Tswana and very few of the or More peo ple in Winter eld Are  has used various pressures to Force the not swans out police a policy of having the few official schools teach Only in but the Winter veld people Are determined to hence the gives an insight into the South african governments Home lands a Basic element in its approach to the racial the theory of the policy is that who make up More than 70 percent of South Africa All really belong in nine designated tribal homelands and must find their political rights some 2 million peo ple have been moved to the homelands against their South african leaders Point accurately that food is Short in other parts of Africa and that thousands have died of hunger but there is serious malnutrition in South Africa an estimate made last May said that children would die of malnutrition and associated diseases in the country Rural areas during South africans that mass unemployment is a near Universal phenomenon in the countries to their but in the a South african Homeland scheduled to become Independent Short unemployment was recently estimated at 45 this is an enormously productive coun with even greater potential for the some Blacks in Johannesburg and Cape town have visibly begun to make economic but there can be no real or so Long As millions arc consigned to places such As new York