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When Erhard returned from Rome last week, a bulging dossier from East Germany was waiting for him. That very night, the Refugee Minister sat down and wrote his letter of resignation. Though he still protested his innocence, Kruger acknowledged that his presence in the Bonn Cabinet was causing "painful embarrassment." Erhard generously offered a few words of praise for Kriiger's performance, but accepted the resignation with alacrity...
...visit to West Germany last summer, and had seen him in action again last month during Erhard's visit to President Johnson's Texas ranch. Just who fingered Peters, the Interior Ministry was not saying, but there may have been more ghosts in the East German dossier than anyone suspected...
Fascinating Turtles. This, the first of three volumes of Marshall's life, takes him to the outbreak of World War II. His biographer is a former Army historian whom Marshall addressed with the precise reticence and austere modesty that shrouded his personality. The result is somewhat like a dossier. But amid the overabundance of facts is a handful of defeats, triumphs and revealing sidelights that help explain why Marshall was both beloved and baffling...
Ellen. Investigators were also sifting through stories that concerned several call girls who operated in this rarefied atmosphere. Among these was a young German woman who was asked to leave the U.S. after FBI agents showed her dossier to other interested authorities. She was Ellen Rometsch, 27, a sometime fashion model and wife of a West German army sergeant who was assigned to his country's military mission in Washington. An ambitious, name-dropping, heavily made-up mother of a five-year-old boy, Elly was a fixture at Washington parties. In September, five weeks after the Rometsches were...
...often displayed enough personal charm to win them over. But he finally tired of the game, grumbling, "I'm not a bear to perform in a circus." Wednesday mornings at 10, the Cabinet gathers around a table covered with red cloth. De Gaulle has before him a dossier on the subject under discussion and will interrupt a Cabinet minister to stress details he thinks are being overlooked. When he feels a speaker is talking too long or to no point, De Gaulle drums his fingers irritably on the table. When he has heard enough, he declares crisply, "Eh bien...