Word: leber
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Almost more astonishing than the loss of such intelligence was the fact that the news caught so many high government officials by surprise. West German Defense Minister Georg Leber, whose office had prepared the report more than a year ago, lamely admitted that he had not got around to reading it and that indeed the Frankfurter Allgemeine article had "actually enlightened me." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also denied having known the extent of the Lutze case. With irrefutable if infuriating logic, his spokesman argued: "How could the Chancellor know more than Leber?" As the initial shock sunk in. the spy affair...
Psychedelic Statement. If this were all, Beatlemania might be dismissed as an ingenious multimedia ripoff. But Producer Steven Leber, 34, who thought the whole thing up, and his partner David Krebs, 37, both successful rock impresarios, have tried to make some sort of psychedelic statement. "What this show really is," says Krebs, "is a panorama of changing forces within American society. In the '60s, what Bob Dylan said, what the Beatles said, really set the tone for kids in terms of drugs, obedience to authority, war, parental guidance. Not that everything they said was right. But that...
...fact, he rooted openly for Gerald Ford during the American election campaign. But Schmidt's discomfort with Carter and his new diplomatic style only explains in part the suddenly acid relations between Bonn and Washington. Last week German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Georg Leber flew to Washington for several days of hard discussion on three policy disputes that divide the two allies. They returned to West Germany in a somewhat better mood than they had arrived in Washington with, but without having resolved the problems...
TANK COMPONENTS. In 1974 former Defense Secretary'James Schlesinger and Defense Minister Leber agreed that there should be fair competition between the West Germans' Leopard II battle-tank prototype and the Americans' XM-1; if the Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make...
...William O. Douglas should resign his seat [April 7]? Throughout my entire lifetime he has been the voice of the people-the maverick who stood up for the underdog. I have no doubt that he is still the capable and forward-thinking jurist that he has always been. Janice Leber North Hollywood, Calif...