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...ballots. But that was because Strauss's fellow C.S.U. leaders did not want to rock the boat in an election year. Privately, they are furious with him over his continuing feud with Hamburg's Spiegel. The fault is not entirely his. Spiegel's publisher, Rudolf Augstein, worried that a good C.S.U. showing next fall might land the former Defense Minister back in the Cabinet, has hammered ceaselessly at Strauss's alleged "corruption" in office, until Strauss retaliated last summer with a libel suit...
...Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed on suspicion of tax evasion. In 1962, after Germany's saucy newsmagazine Der Spiegel questioned West Germany's military preparedness, police jailed Publisher Rudolf Augstein and five other Spiegel staffers on suspicion of treason. Released within three months, they still have not been formally charged...
Triple Victory. Though jailed, Augstein seems remarkably content. He apparently does not envy those of his colleagues-including Managing Editor Claus Jacob,. and his brother, Lawyer Josef Augstein-who have been freed. He has. in fact, made little attempt to challenge the government's right to imprison him. After all, Augstein's arrest has already resulted in 1) a Cabinet crisis in Konrad Adenauer's government, 2) the resignation of Augstein's hated enemy. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, and 3) a surge in Der Spiegel's circulation from 525,000 to more than...
When first jailed in Hamburg, Augstein was allowed to make daily visits to Der Spiegel's office, but, to make sure that he did not try to escape or to destroy evidence, police escorted him everywhere, even to the men's room. Even so, he was free to write flaming anti-Adenauer editorials for Der Spiegel, the brisk, irreverent, and often sensational newsmagazine he founded in 1947. Moved last month to a more confining prison at Coblenz, Augstein is now undergoing daylong interrogations. But he still wears his own expensive suits instead of the usual prison uniform, orders...
...Worry." What Augstein seems most determined to do is prove that his continued imprisonment is more injurious to Adenauer than to Augstein. He seems confident that the government will never be able to present a winning case against him. And he now sees himself as something of a martyr. "I owed this service to the nation," he said in a recent column, and added, with strained modesty: "I should like to ask all of you who concern yourselves about us: Do not worry. No one of us is a Captain Dreyfus and no one, unfortunately, an Emile Zola...