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...your Gunter Grass cover story [April 13], you refer to former West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss as having once been a member of the Nazi party. Strauss was never a member of the Nazi party. On the contrary, Strauss's father, a butcher, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. As for Strauss himself, he was drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official...
Married. Svetlana Alliluyeva, 44, Josef Stalin's only daughter, who astonished the world by defecting to the U.S. in 1967; and William Wesley Peters, 57, architect and vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, whom she met less than a month ago while visiting the foundation; in a Quaker ceremony near Phoenix, Ariz...
...articles and speeches, Grass has consistently attacked former members of the Nazi Party, including ex-Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and ex-Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. In Cat and Mouse (1961), a nearly flawless small novel about German teenagers during World War II, Grass openly made fun of the Iron Cross?by having his hero dangle it in front of his genitals. Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets. But Grass has also cleverly spun the coin of guilt to show...
...denounced Dubček as a "weak man" and his reformist colleagues as "two-faced people." After months of rumors, the party paper, Rudé Právo, announced that Dubček had been suspended from party membership and that several leading reformists, including ex-National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky, had been expelled from the party. Though the Soviet Union has been supporting Husák, last week's developments seemed to imply not only a weakening of his hold on the party but also a shift in Soviet support to the extremists...
...Bruno Kreisky, 59, chairman of the Socialist Party since 1967 (see box). Kreisky's Socialists won 81 seats to 79 for the People's Party, led by balding, lackluster Josef Klaus. The right-wing Free Democrats won five seats, giving them the balance of power. Since neither the Socialists nor the conservatives want to coalesce with the Free Democrats, however, a new grand coalition is all but assured. Last week President Franz Jonas called on Kreisky to form a government, and negotiations for a return to a red-black partnership began in earnest in Vienna...