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...nicknames, West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard cherishes none so highly as Wahllokomotive (vote puller). Indeed, over the past two decades he has chugged well ahead of the rest of his party, helping to pull it to victory behind a prosperous trail of cigar smoke. Last week the Erhard engine ran dangerously low on steam...
...August 1964 Klein sent Dodd the draft of a letter that he wanted dispatched-over Dodd's signature-to Dr. Ludger Westrick, an aide to Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and a key figure in the dispute about the continuation of Klein's contracts. "Please destroy this letter," Klein added. "I made no copy." Dodd duly sent Westrick the missive, which oozed polysaturated praise of Klein in Klein's own words ("He has the confidence of my Democratic and Republican colleagues and is especially close to our leaders"), but preserved copies of the correspondence because he saw nothing "sinister...
...feels he has more of a right to discuss that disposition than De Gaulle. Moreover, no other Western leader is currently in a position to do so. Britain's Harold Wilson, with his Atlantic orientation and his Common Market phobia, is hardly eligible. West Germany's Ludwig Erhard has been forced into a defensive corner by Social Democratic Leader Willy Brandt's initiative on an exchange of speakers with East Germany; Italy and Spain, the Low Countries and Scandinavia are not contenders...
...suave, cigar-smoking Barzel (pronounced Bart-sell) acts as Erhard's right-hand man in the Bundestag, conferring with him weekly on all major legislation and in between times on other top issues of the day. He traveled 13,000 miles speechmaking for the Christian Democrats in last summer's election campaign, has been responsible for the past two years for shepherding all major legislation through the legislature. In the Bundestag, he has become famous for his ability to reconcile squabbling factions in the party...
...good many politicians, in fact, think Barzel has come too far too fast. Last February, when Konrad Adenauer resigned the C.D.U. chairmanship and Erhard showed reluctance to take it, Barzel suddenly announced that he would run for the post. Outraged at what they considered a grab for power, party leaders talked Erhard into taking it in order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would...