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Unlikely Friendship. How are the coalition partners getting along? So far, amazingly well. Burly Franz Josef Strauss, boss of the C.D.U.'s autonomous Bavarian branch, is working smoothly in his post as Economics Minister with Finance Minister Karl Schiller, who is a Socialist. Kiesinger has correct, if cool, relations with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt, who is both Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. As a whole, the eleven Christian Democrat ministers and nine Socialists have pretty well buried ideological differences in favor of a get-it-done approach...
...hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last week it appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which, pleased with its journalistic coup, proclaimed in an ad: "The great tradition of Russian literature has a direct descendant in the daughter of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva and Josef Stalin...
...time to exterminate the Volkswagen beetle, which has not changed much since it first began bugging the roads after World War II? West German Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss thinks so - and in a recent speech he warned that VW had better begin to produce a car more attuned to contemporary demands for "performance, comfort and safety...
...presided over Cabinet meetings, the simple brown oak coffin lay in state for two days, while thousands of Germans filed past. Then, in the soaring, twin-spired Cathedral of Cologne, where he had knelt as the city's mayor, a pontifical Requiem Mass was to be sung by Josef Cardinal Frings. From Cologne, Adenauer's body was to be taken by a German navy patrol boat up the Rhine and back to RhÖndorf for burial in the secluded family plot where rest his two wives and an infant son.* Adenauer loved flowers and trees...
...State Treaty, it was assigned to the political limbo of everlasting neutrality between East and West. Russia has used the treaty to object to Austria's moves to join Western Europe's Common Market, on which it depends for most of its trade. Last week Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus decided on some liberalization of his own. Whether or not the Soviet Union likes it, he said, Austria will move to join the Common Market as an associate member. Like many other small nations that trade with Western Europe, it does not want to be left...