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Until the outcry against his high handed policing of the magazine Der Spiegel forced him to resign from Konrad Adenauer's Cabinet 21 years ago, Bavaria's bull-necked Franz Josef Strauss, now 49, was the fair-haired Knabe of Christian Democratic politics...
...sure, the C.S.U. delegates gave him an overwhelming mandate, 643 out of 705 ballots. But that was because Strauss's fellow C.S.U. leaders did not want to rock the boat in an election year. Privately, they are furious with him over his continuing feud with Hamburg's Spiegel. The fault is not entirely his. Spiegel's publisher, Rudolf Augstein, worried that a good C.S.U. showing next fall might land the former Defense Minister back in the Cabinet, has hammered ceaselessly at Strauss's alleged "corruption" in office, until Strauss retaliated last summer with a libel suit...
Still rankled by memories of the 1962 Der Spiegel press flap, when over-zealous German cops arrested staffers and raided the magazine's office after an article disclosing classified NATO information, the German press was predictably caustic about what the Sü'ddeutsche Zeitung aptly felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...
That Interview. By then, about the only cloud-and it was little more than a speck-left on Goldwater's horizon was the publication of a June 30 interview with a reporter from Der Spiegel, a West German weekly newsmagazine. In that interview, Goldwater was asked if he thought that he could defeat Lyndon Johnson. He replied: "If you asked that question as of now-and I always like to answer political questions as of now-no. I don't think any Republican can, as of now ... I don't think I'd be rash enough...
...President Fritz-Aurel Goergen, who was hauled away from a banquet honoring Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed on suspicion of tax evasion. In 1962, after Germany's saucy newsmagazine Der Spiegel questioned West Germany's military preparedness, police jailed Publisher Rudolf Augstein and five other Spiegel staffers on suspicion of treason. Released within three months, they still have not been formally charged...