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...powerful publisher whose arrest touched off Konrad Adenauer's crisis still sits in jail. Der Spiegel's Rudolf Augstein, 39., has not yet been tried, or even formally charged with a crime. Under West Germany's law, a suspect can be held behind bars indefinitely while the police determine if there has been any serious wrongdoing...
...Augstein and four of his executives at the newsmagazine Der Spiegel were scooped up in a series of arrests beginning with a Keystone-cop raid on the magazine's Hamburg offices last October. The stated reason: "Suspicion of treason," for allegedly using classified government information in a story blasting the performance of the West German army. After sifting literally millions of papers in the defendants' homes and Der Spiegel's offices, the police glumly stood watch as the remaining editors published successive weekly editions, each of them acidly critical of the whole affair...
...Alte's coalition partners, the Free Democrats, had triggered the trouble by pulling their five ministers out of the government and demanding that Adenauer fire Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the man blamed by the F.D.P. and others for the arrest of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and four top executives of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. But as it turned out, the barrel-chested Bavarian had no intention of bowing out of the Cabinet gracefully...
...Adenauer's troubles were far from over. Though Strauss was out of the way, the political repercussions over Publisher Augstein's arrest now had blossomed into what newspapers were calling a "Chancellor crisis." To der Alte's chagrin, even his own C.D.U. colleagues had begun to raise the leadership issue. Everyone, it seemed, felt it was about time for Adenauer to step down. In a heated meeting, they asked him insistently to declare his intention to resign by next fall, so that the party might groom a successor in time for the 1965 general elections. Adenauer...
...Getting ride of a few officials has neither answered these questions nor prevented them from being raised again and again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing the foreign press. Instead of taking note of the public out-cry against the jailing of Rudolf Augstein, Bonn has lent its tacit support to Herr Strauss' highly successful Christian Social Union campaign strategy in the Bavarian Landelection--calling those asking for his resignation Communists...