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Watergate am Rhine. The quest for the answer exploded last week in a Watergate-style scandal that aroused deep-seated German concern other than that of nuclear annihilation. The weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel disclosed that agents of the Verfassungsschutz (federal office for the protection of the constitution) had broken into Traube's home near Cologne last year, photographed his letters and documents and planted a bugging device. After failing to discover any guilt in his associations, the agents surreptitiously entered Traube's house a second time two months later to remove the bug. These legally questionable acts evoked...
While we're on the subject of Sunday's game, Oakland Raiders George Atkinson and Errol Mann deserve at least a pair of Spiegel gift certificates. Atkinson was a runner up to Tarkenton for Best Costume, dressing in a Spider Lockhart outfit instead of the Richard Speck-type garb that he's known and loathed...
...well-stocked party when he welcomed Willy, then Chancellor of West Germany, to the Crimea years later. Brandt's account of both meetings is part of his upcoming memoirs, Encounters and Insights, the first installment of which appeared last week in the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Lyndon Johnson, writes Brandt, was basically a bother. Johnson came to Berlin as John Kennedy's Vice President in 1961, and where Kennedy proclaimed, "Ich bin ein Berliner, "Johnson was more the ugly American. "On a Saturday evening, we had to get shoes from a store which had long been closed...
...part of the investigation, Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a New York psychiatrist and hypnotist, put some of the surviving patients into trances and let the FBI question them. At least one, under hypnosis, suddenly seemed to recall forgotten details of his near fatal day. Richard Neely, 61, a retired auto worker who was being treated for cancer of the bladder, said that he remembered experiencing unexpected breathing difficulties and calling out to a passing nurse of Asian origin, who turned and fled at his cry. Later, shown photographs of the hospital's nurses, he picked out one of the Filipino...
...recent Western European press coverage, it was not Saigon that fell but Washington. Day after day, headlines bannered, THE AMERICAN RETREAT, THE AMERICAN FAILURE or THE AMERICAN DECLINE. Occasionally, a qualifying question mark was added, as in the headline on the recent cover of West Germany's Der Spiegel: NO MORE TRUST IN AMERICA...