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Wily Sioux. The Free Democrats rejoice at having forced the resignation of Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the man blamed for the ham-handed arrests of Der Spiegel executives (see below) but regret the price they had to pay: the replacement of the Ministers for Justice and Finance. Only the Socialists, as usual frozen out of the government, seem in a position to gain at the polls from the public disgust at the Spiegel affair...
...Free Democrat Wolfgang Stammberger, who resigned as Justice Minister when Der Spiegel executives were arrested without his knowledge, is replaced by Free Democrat Ewald Bucher, who violently dislikes Strauss and can be expected to investigate thoroughly Strauss's meddling in the Spiegel case...
...Alte seems uninterested in details, no longer gets the steady stream of reports from the Foreign Ministry on every detail of West Germany's relations abroad which he once demanded. Being out of touch even with the moods in his own country, Adenauer clearly fell into the Der Spiegel affair without realizing the political dynamite it contained...
...powerful publisher whose arrest touched off Konrad Adenauer's crisis still sits in jail. Der Spiegel's Rudolf Augstein, 39., has not yet been tried, or even formally charged with a crime. Under West Germany's law, a suspect can be held behind bars indefinitely while the police determine if there has been any serious wrongdoing...
Augstein and four of his executives at the newsmagazine Der Spiegel were scooped up in a series of arrests beginning with a Keystone-cop raid on the magazine's Hamburg offices last October. The stated reason: "Suspicion of treason," for allegedly using classified government information in a story blasting the performance of the West German army. After sifting literally millions of papers in the defendants' homes and Der Spiegel's offices, the police glumly stood watch as the remaining editors published successive weekly editions, each of them acidly critical of the whole affair...