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Sneer at the Boss. Armed with the victory of his Christian Social Union in Bavaria's state elections, Strauss strutted back to Bonn from Munich and faced the Chancellor with an air of arrogant defiance. All the trouble, he told a party meeting, stemmed from a "lack of leadership'' in der Alte's coalition...
There was some truth to the accusation, but the Chancellor had to ignore the personal insult since his chief concern at the moment was to preserve the voting balance of his regime in the Bundestag. Strauss's own C.S.U. had 50 seats, and might withdraw its support if Bavaria's favorite son was fired. For two days, Adenauer delayed a decision while his agents buttonholed the C.S.U. Bundestag members to see how many were willing to follow Strauss out of the coalition. To der Alte's glee, word came back that, in fact, most would abandon...
...Chancellor certainly had to discuss it, for he needs the Free Democrats' 67 votes in the Bundestag. On the other hand, he also needs the 50 votes of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, whose chairman is none other than Franz Joseph Strauss. Adenauer could not fire his Defense Minister outright. Instead the Old Man proposed that all the other Cabinet ministers follow the Free Democrats' example and resign. That way. the Chancellor could build a new Cabinet from scratch, with a new Defense Minister...
That's when the great chicken war began. The Dutch accused the U.S. of dumping chickens in Europe at prices below cost of production. In Bavaria and Westphalia, protectionist German farmers' associations stormed that U.S. chickens are artificially fattened with arsenic and should be banned. The French government did ban U.S. chickens, using the excuse that they are fattened with estrogen. With typical Gallic concern, Frenchmen hinted that such hormones could have catastrophic effects on male virility...
German developers are scouting emptier Eldorados as far afield as Lebanon and Iran. However, some experts think the boom is already losing steam. One portent is that some of the most fashionable Germans are rediscovering West Germany. Areas such as the Black Forest and Bavaria, they report, are not only beautiful and easy to reach, but have one unique advantage over almost any other vacation spots in Europe: few Germans go there...