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Raking the Ranks. Behind all this Nordic furor stood two stubborn men, stiffened by an antagonism as ridiculous as it was real. One was Franz-Josef Strauss, 47, West Germany's bull-bodied, bull-tempered Minister of Defense, who for all his bulk has a skin thin enough to invite puncturing. The other was Der Spiegel's frail, blond Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 39, who has seldom missed a chance to play the matador to Defense Minister Strauss's bull...
...magazine's favorite pastime was raking the ranks of West German officialdom, from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on down. No one was shelled more ruthlessly than Franz-Josef Strauss. From the day in 1956 that Strauss took over the Defense Ministry and boasted that Germans would never again play "foot soldiers to the American atomic knights," Augstein and Der Spiegel attacked. The magazine jeered at inconsistencies in Strauss's defense policies. It sneered when Strauss arrogantly pulled rank on a West German cop who stopped the Defense Minister for a minor traffic offense. It accused him of helping...
...first suspected that Kennedy's noise about Cuba had more to do with the election than with the progress of the cold war with Russia, and he rather liked the idea; it was the kind of thing that the old man might have done himself. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took a different view, worriedly foresaw a cynical deal trading off bases between the U.S. and Russia, which would weaken his own long-range goal to obtain nuclear missiles for West Germany. With Strauss, Adenauer peered at the photographs of the Russian installations in Cuba. Actually, said some knowledgeable...
Greetings at the Wall. The unpleasantest noises about Berlin from the Red side last week were provided by Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, who. with Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, journeyed to East Berlin. Gomulka has long been considered a relatively independent and "respectable" Communist, and there had been much speculation that he loathed Walter Ulbricht's nasty East German regime. But in public, at least, he could scarcely have been more obliging: he denounced West Germany, demanded Western withdrawal from Berlin and an early peace treaty. He visited the Wall, the world's most obscene tourist attraction, and signed...
...handed a list of 16 nominees for the first of ten commissions drawn up by the Curia, he said, "These lists are very nice, but they do not tell us anything about the qualifications of these men." He then asked for further details. Pending these, the presiding officer, Josef Cardinal Frings of Cologne, adjourned the meeting...