Word: augstein
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...time, it looked as if Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's political foes might at last have the pleasure of seeing the Old Man forced out of office. The scandal over the arrest and jailing of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9) had blown up into a national tempest, rocking the Cabinet itself. But in his half-century of political maneuvering, der Alte has learned what it takes to survive. Last week he squeaked through again-with a plan that probably will sacrifice his brawny, brawling Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss...
...Augstein is a vigorous backer of the Free Democratic Party, the small group that shares power in an uneasy coalition with Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Had Stammberger known in advance of the planned arrests, he might well have blocked the scheme. Afterward. Stammberger became so angry that he threatened to quit and take his four F.D.P. colleagues with him out of the coalition Cabinet. But in the end Adenauer salved his hurt feelings by firing a couple of the second-level ministerial officials involved in the arrests. They were obviously political scapegoats. The compromise hardly satisfied Der Spiegel...
...that, an angry young Bundestag Deputy from Düsseldorf rose to protest. He was Wolfgang Döring, 43, deputy leader of the Free Democratic Party and a friend of Augstein's. "Mr. Chancellor, you are the first to arrive at a verdict that only a court has the right to determine." Then, in a shaking voice, Döring told of his half-Jewish wife, who lost 22 of her 26 living relatives in Nazi concentration camps, and fled to Britain during the war. She did not want to return to Germany, Döring told...
What alarmed the government's critics most was gradually emerging evidence that the crackdown on the magazine had been essentially political. From the start, many thought it strange that Minister of Justice Wolfgang Stammberger was not told in advance by his own underlings of plans to prosecute Augstein. As it turned out, it was not strange...
...Call to Málaga. Adenauer admitted that even he knew nothing of Operation Spiegel until just before the arrests were made. Who, then, was behind it? Little by little, the emerging facts pointed at a man who had been Augstein's main target for years: that baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been...