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...service to save flood victims. German air force planes dropped 350,000 sandbags to plug holes in the dikes; helicopters fluttered over drowning villages picking up survivors and dropping milk for starving infants. In Hamburg, Danish frogmen dived beneath the waters to hunt for bodies: for six hours two Bundeswehr soldiers stood in shoulder-deep water holding two children piggyback. The parents of the children finally succumbed to exhaustion and slipped beneath the flood tide. It was so cold that many people froze to death on rooftops before rescuers arrived...
Ministerial Scalp. Among other conditions worrisome to the Christian Democrats: the Free Democrats' insistence on curtailment of welfare state programs, recognition that West Germany's Bundeswehr should be equipped with nuclear weapons, a beefed-up defense budget (from $2.75 billion to $3.4 billion) that would take priority over all other expenditures. After endless wrangling, Adenauer agreed as well to a coalition committee that will pass on all government policy statements to the Bundestag, and a new Ministry of Development, handling foreign aid programs, which had been vehemently resisted by Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...government provided elaborate legal safeguards for the new soldier's rights and easily accessible channels through which he could air his citizen gripes. A West German soldier is told: "A command must not be followed if thereby a crime or offense might be committed." Last year the Bundeswehr's top officer, General Adolf Heusinger (whose title, with the characteristic euphemism of the new German army, is Inspector General rather than Chief of Staff), publicly praised the "Christian-humanist sense of responsibility" of the officers who joined the wartime 1944 anti-Hitler plot and said: "Their spirit and their...
...committed to NATO, under the overall command of the U.S.'s General Lauris Norstad. Even in the event of an East German uprising against their Communist rulers, Strauss has said, "There will be no military West German reaction. Our troops are NATO troops." About two-thirds of all Bundeswehr supplies and ammunition are to be stored in other NATO countries. All major weapons systems are closely interlocked with those of other NATO countries. Strauss has not encouraged a new armaments industry, has placed orders for nothing larger than 40-mm. guns in Germany itself. Germany gets most...
...already been delivered, and the first 66 operational types are due from California in April. The revitalized German aircraft industry is building 210 F-1045 under license for 1961 and 1962 delivery, and a German-Belgian-Dutch consortium will supply another 364. All told, the order will cost the Bundeswehr a billion dollars, $175 million of which will be spent...