Word: konrads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, it looked as if Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's political foes might at last have the pleasure of seeing the Old Man forced out of office. The scandal over the arrest and jailing of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9) had blown up into a national tempest, rocking the Cabinet itself. But in his half-century of political maneuvering, der Alte has learned what it takes to survive. Last week he squeaked through again-with a plan that probably will sacrifice his brawny, brawling Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss...
There could be little argument about the renewed explosiveness of the Cuban crisis. Meeting in Washington to talk over its significance. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer saved his regime from collapse over the Der Spiegel "treason" scandal last week. But nothing der Alte did or said could muffle the growing noise surrounding his government's role in the affair...
Vienna in Switzerland. The most populous paradise for sun-starved Germans is the 200-mile strip of Spanish coastline along the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol, where they have invested more than $55 million in the past two years. Italy is still popular with Germans from Konrad Adenauer down; on the French Riviera, real estate men say they are the best customers of all for three-room apartments priced at $60,000 up. But many well-heeled Germans have fled to more pastoral retreats such as Switzerland, where the government reported last week that they had bought...
...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...