European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february 1981 meet the James Reston Reagan taking Steps to implement pledges when Ronald Reagan moved into the White there was a tendency to regard his promises to Cut the Cut taxes and be Tough on the soviets As so Many new years resolutions soon to be destroyed by the brutal facts and politics of the his Assumption was that the country had been on a that he was going to dry it get it Back on the and maybe even Back to the exit John May Nard enter Adam raise the defense reduce almost everything and make the soviets Promise to be have As a condition of military arms nobody doubted reagans sincerity but almost everybody doubted his ability to achieve these his proposals amounted to a counterrevolution against the welfare state policies of the last 50 years and in the opinion of Many observers they would be rejected by the democratic major Ity in the House of that May very Well be the new president is not forgetting his resolutions but acting on and calling on the people and the As an act of Patri to support for the he has stunned his opposition and he has astonished foreign dip under intense pressure from their governments to explain what Hes Are fascinated by the fact that such a counterrevolution is even being they tend to agree that its Success or fail ure will have a profound effect on the poli tics of the not Only in the United states but also in other parts of the Anthony Lewis Africa political chasm is widening South Africa extraordinary feature of life in South Africa is the of its the afrikaners who hold Power and the Black majority of the population Sec two entirely Dif Ferent political and the Gulf Between the perceptions seems wider than Ever the prime has talked of the need for change and taken such Steps As legislating to Black Trade the political in his National has been a backlash from the right a while feeling that Botha is doing too much for to head that off he has called an april election and is making anti communism a main Campaign but in the Black perception there has been no meaningful Blacks note that Botha said a Flat no when asked whether Blacks could Ever sit on a constitutional advisory Council he has just set up much less sit in his govern ment has effectively shut two Black newspapers and banned five leading figures in a Black writers Union forbidding them to work for any the most articulate spokesman for Black feelings these Days May be an anglican Desmond general Secretary of the South african Council of Bishop Tutu somehow mixes humor with pain when he discusses his he is a bit like an irishman with a Black the politicians Are trying to juggle Sev eral balls in the Tutu said in a conversation they have a Ball called then they have one for their right Wing we dont take any non and they must keep the Black Community Botha looked As if he were going some where when he said they had to adapt or we thought he was going to be Coura but then they keep clobbering us those of us who basically still want to want to negotiate a he took a step that was fundamental in their the Whites had always said they alone would decide the country constitutional then he brought the col reds and asians into his but Why did he vitiate it by excluding the majority of the population he satisfied Tutu himself has been in political trouble with the after he spoke critically of it while travelling his pass porn was taken then last without it was he columns comments i joked that his friends wondered whether it was an attempt to subvert my he spoke bitterly of recently introduced by the that was supposed to relax the Laws restricting where africans May live and the Bills turned out to be intricate measures that would actually do away with some of the few rights Blacks have to live in Urban they Are now being Ive never Felt More defiled in Reading Tutu you Are less than a human being does not con vey the Effort to deprive us of the simple rights of Over the last 20 years they have moved 2 million people into resettlement and it has accelerated since the Bant stans started becoming a million More Are still slated to be they Are so determined to hold on to political Power that they will pay any these people Are hag Ridden by they keep talking about the need to preserve their i ask is your culture so vulnerable that it cant stand up to being juxtaposed with others Why does it have to be protected by such vicious Laws anti White feelings Are plainly growing among Young Urban and Tutu spoke of that fact with recently an Afri can High school track Star was offered a College athletic scholarship in America but turned it Down when his classmates in Cape town threatened violence against his parents if he we Are going to need a lot of divine Grace not to hate White Tutu but you know there still is some Good if they were to say today that they Are ready to discuss there Are very Many in the Black Community who would be ready to America has a critical role to play in South Africa the Bishop said and president just As it was easier for a Nixon to visit he so also i reckon it May be easier for a Reagan to Tell Botha to get on with some americans think these people will be in Power for a very Long we get on the winning which is when you Are you know it is going to be a Long but if we dont Start solving we Are going to be up to our stirrups in but never my this is gods you the trouble is that he Doest always demonstrate that its his world As quickly As we would and the Bishop laughed c new York times if he succeeds in reducing in creasing productivity and persuading mos cow to abandon the use of Force in third world countries an ambitious Agenda he will produce the greatest change in american Domestic and foreign policy since the new and if he Many Diplo Mats he will reduce the influence of the free Enterprise system at Home and abroad for at least a split the Alliance and revive the bitterness of the cold nobody is saying that Reagan has to get he wants in order to succeed Roosevelt had great influence at Home and abroad though his new Deal fell far Short of its but nobody is saying either that his proposals Are merely Campaign rhe in the foreign he has already used his executive Power to change the methods and tone of american first of he has ended the conflict Between the state department and the National Security Council Over who defines and articulates his foreign under president important communications to the soviet Union and other major drafted at had to be approved by the National Security Council in the name of the president and could be amended or even vetoed in the White such communications can now be dispatched directly by Secretary with or without the approval of the Haig is insisting that the soviet Union abide by the Basic principles of relations signed by presidents Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972 As a condition of negotiations on a new arms limitation in Haigs these principles would forbid the use of Force to achieve political and he made this condition Clear in a private conversation with soviet ambassador Dobrynin on j i this principle is being applied specifically to the Case of Al Haig the soviet Cuba and Vietnam Are supplying weapons to the left Wing guerrillas who Are trying to overthrow the government in Al some of the allies Are uneasy at what they regard As the provocative language of Haig and Reagan denouncing the so Viet leaders As liars and cheats and they doubt that the soviet Union would abide by a Promise to abandon its practice of supporting wars of National liberation As in Al Salvador even if it were nor Are the allies comfortable with some of the Reagan administration foreign policy actions so they wonder How the presi Dent can take such a hard line in such a seemingly casual and lighthearted they Point to Washington Tough line on Al Salvador while it is trying to make com Mon cause with Mexico president Lopez who is doing business with both Cuba and the salvadoran they Are confused about Secretary of defense Weinberger without prior consultation with the european that the United states might put the Neu tron bomb in they note that the Reagan administration plans a substantial increase in its defense but is willing to Settle for a no mandatory Promise from the nato allies to raise their military Bud gets by Only 3 the tendency is to regard these unilateral moves As the actions of a new administration that has not yet had time to get its procedures and policies in there is even enthusiastic reaction in Many quarters to the sweep and determination of reagans c new York times the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states