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...free its Deputies to vote for the treaties if they wanted to do so, after gaining their support for a bipartisan Bundestag resolution on West Germany's understanding of the pacts. On the eve of the scheduled vote, however, the C.D.U.'s conservative Bavarian wing, Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, decided to vote against the treaties. Faced with that threat to party unity, Barzel reversed course, and only three hours before the final Bundestag vote, ordered the C.D.U. Deputies to abstain from voting. By opting for party unity instead of statesmanship, he earned the widespread...
...Austrian ski industry now makes more than a quarter of all the world's skis. Last year 230 Austrian firms exported about $80 million in ski equipment and clothing, more than three times sales in 1965. This year Austria's (and the world's) largest skimaker, Josef Fischer, expects to produce 700,000 pairs of skis, a tenfold increase since 1951. Its major competitors are the firms of Franz Kneissl, which makes 300,000 pairs, Anton Arnsteiner (280,000) and Alois Rohr-moser...
...would be hard to think of a less "American" painter than Bailey, 41, who teaches at Yale, where he had earlier studied under Josef Albers. Modest in scale and completely unrhetorical, his pictures seem European-the work, perhaps, of a less mature Balthus, minus the overtones of perverse eroticism. Their strength lies partly in the extreme discipline of organization that Bailey can muster. He is a perfectionist, so much so that the right hand of the girl in Listener had to be scraped off and repainted "about 100 times" before he was satisfied with it (perhaps he shouldn...
...instead. Though relations between West Germany and Eastern Europe have greatly improved, Brandt regards his policy of reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef Strauss, a power in the opposition Bavarian Christian Social Union, urged only last week that Brandt abandon his Ostpolitik and "return things to where they were...
Since Willy Brandt's Social Democrats won power two years ago, West Germany's Christian Democratic Union has been a party without a leader. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 67, the defeated Chancellor, went into a deep sulk and was eventually talked into stepping down as party chairman. Franz Josef Strauss, 56, the burly, ultraconservative leader of the C.D.U.'s Bavarian wing, maneuvered on the sidelines. Meanwhile, Rainer Barzel, 47, took on the burden of leading the C.D.U. in the Bundestag...