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Powerful Friend. It took three ballots; but on the third, Kiesinger had a comfortable margin: 137 to 81 for Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and 26 for C.D.U. Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel. One reason was that Kiesinger had been away from the Bundestag for eight years, thus had fewer enemies. He also had a powerful friend: Franz Josef Strauss, the burly boss of the Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party...
...Cabinet under Erhard. Burly, ambitious Franz Josef Strauss, who is boss of the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democrats, was elbowing Erhard by threatening to pull his six ministers out of the government unless the Chancellor went ahead and stepped down. And the C.D.U.'s Deputy Leader Rainer Barzel, who had been instrumental in forcing Erhard to face the caucus, was now maneuvering to isolate Erhard from any remaining support. About the only Erhard enemy not on the scene was flinty old (90) Konrad Adenauer. Though he had sniped mercilessly at Erhard almost from the day in 1963 that...
...anti-Erhard muttering. In fact, as he stepped from the Lufthansa jet that brought him home from Washington a fortnight ago, Erhard was greeted by a blaze of unsettling headlines. They spoke of closed-door meetings among politicians anxious to get his scalp. His own deputy party chairman, Rainer Barzel, had huddled with former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Erhard's severest critic. In a hunting lodge in the Vierherrenwald, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had canvassed powerful C.D.U. state leaders on Erhard's strength in their regions. It remained for Adenauer last week to bring...
After a party caucus last week, Barzel announced: "Erhard is and remains Chancellor. We want the public debate to stop." Barzel's pronouncement rang a little hollow, since he is among those angling for Erhard...
...Barzel's propositions were merely an attempt to sweeten the pot for the Russians in their poker-face view of the European future. Yet troop presence remains at the very heart of Europe's past history and future development. Both of the world's two great powers have every reason to want their soldiers out of the frigid zones of occupation. In Paris last March, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin announced: "The War saw Pact nations will either reduce their military forces or even abolish them if a corresponding move is undertaken by the NATO allies in West...