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...economic strain, a major factor in the downfall of Ludwig Erhard's government two months ago, is even more visible today. More than at any other time since the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) transformed war-torn West Germany into Europe's biggest trading power, television and automobile manufacturers are stuck with unsold stock, building cranes stand idle, and workers are uneasy about their jobs. The nation's economic growth, which has averaged almost 6% a year since 1950, dropped to barely 3% in 1966, is likely to dip to an icy 2% this year. "The economy," warns Fritz...
...first meeting with aides in the Foreign Ministry, announced that he will fly to Paris this week to talk with Charles de Gaulle and arrange a meeting between the French President and Kiesinger in early January. The Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder, who served as Foreign Minister under Erhard, arrived at the Defense Ministry just after the Luftwaffe's new commander, Lieut. General Johann Steinhoff, grounded the service's 769 Starfighters following the 65th crash of the U.S.-designed fighter-bomber. He and Steinhoff agreed that the planes should not fly again until they are outfitted with improved...
Franz Josef Strauss, 51, the barrel-shaped boss of the Christian Democrats' autonomous Bavarian branch, took on perhaps the most difficult portfolio of all: finance. Former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's government in effect fell over the refusal of his Free Democrat coalition partners to go along with needed tax increases. But Strauss has less balky coalition mates. As a start toward wiping out the $1.5 billion deficit for the 1967 budget, Strauss did exactly what Erhard had wanted to do: increased taxes on gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill...
...majority required by the constitution to install a Chancellor. While the Christian Democrats quarreled over whom they should nominate, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats began negotiating to form a coalition of their own to end the Christian Democrats' 17 years of uninterrupted rule. Desperate for a solution, Erhard's party decided to throw the choice open to a vote by its Bundestag members. On the third ballot, with the decisive backing of Strauss's Bavarian Christian Social Union, the decision went to the man who seemed best fitted to pull the divided party?and the country?together...
Wehner was conscious that the rank-and-file of his party opposed helping their old foes out of their dilemma. Furthermore, since preference polls showed the Socialists leading the Christian Democrats by a comfortable margin, there was a strong sentiment in the party to ride out the crisis until Erhard would be forced to call new national elections; then, possibly, the Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige...