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...suspension last week of Karl Wienand from his powerful post as S.P.D. whip because of charges of tax evasion and lying to an investigative committee, and 2) the fact that Confessed East German Spy Günter Guillaume could rise to become one of then Chancellor Willy Brandt's three personal assistants before he was caught last April (TIME...
...crew of technicians was kept to a bare minimum; no aides, friends or family members were in the room to share his disgrace. There were no precedents at all in American history-and no exact precedents in world history, the resignation of West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt being perhaps the closest recent parallel-for the sort of speech that Nixon, a head of state departing under a cloud, was about to make...
...never been in any other group," he continues. "I'm too egotistical for that. I guess if I split up with myself, I'd really be in trouble." Jobriath Boone doesn't talk much about his past. His protective manager, Jerry Brandt, claims to have discovered Jobriath sitting alone in all all-white room, living on beer. "You're American, aren't you?" asks the reporter. "Just say I was born on Earth," says Jobriath, "But we're planning to do a show on Mars soon--little silver men, you know...
...succeeded by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, whose narrow victory over Socialist opposition marks the end of Gaullism but may mark the beginning of a new, more human exercise of power that will test whether France can exist short of "grandeur" without lapsing into disorder. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned amid scandal; yet even in resigning he displayed a sense of responsibility that is itself an element of leadership. He was succeeded by fellow Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, who may yet prove to be a better manager. Portugal's authoritarian regime was ousted with at least a chance, slim...
...said WELCOME PRESIDENT NIXON in English. Together with Premier Aleksei Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Brezhnev himself was there to voice it, a considerable honor since he had never before appeared at the airport for a Western visitor, not even Charles de Gaulle or Willy Brandt. "It was a helluva plus," said one Nixon aide of Brezhnev's airport greeting...