Word: spiegelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threatened to quit and take his four F.D.P. colleagues with him out of the coalition Cabinet. But in the end Adenauer salved his hurt feelings by firing a couple of the second-level ministerial officials involved in the arrests. They were obviously political scapegoats. The compromise hardly satisfied Der Spiegel's editors, who splashed Augstein's photograph on the cover of the following week's issue, ran a 24-page story on the affair...
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...
...jail were Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of his brash newsmagazine, which had angered the government by its incessant criticism and allegedly had broken the law by its publication of "secret" details of the strength of the West German army (TIME. Nov. 9). Still scouring Der Spiegel's Hamburg headquarters for evidence were the squads of police that last month had pounced on the staff in a series of midnight raids...
...Call to Málaga. Adenauer admitted that even he knew nothing of Operation Spiegel until just before the arrests were made. Who, then, was behind it? Little by little, the emerging facts pointed at a man who had been Augstein's main target for years: that baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been...
...state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets. But the government had taken its actions in a needlessly heavy-handed manner. The nation's alarm was, in a sense, reassuring evidence that Germans today want to live under the rule...