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...chief political lieutenant, Al Barkan, director of Big Labor's Committee on Political Education (COPE); and Scoop Jackson, one of the most vehement of McGovern's preconvention rivals. They are even supported by some McGovern followers, who describe Westwood as a "scheming nonentity." Potential replacements include Robert Strauss, the Texas lawyer who has served as party treasurer; New York State Chairman Joseph Crangle; and California State Chairman Charles Manatt...
Barzel likes modish suits and wears fashionably long sideburns. He does not socialize much, but does like to invite business and professional leaders to his home for wide-ranging discussions. He and Strauss have occasionally amused their associates by holding heated arguments in Latin...
Barzel hopes to enlarge C.D.U.'s traditional bloc of businessmen, white-collar workers, farmers, women and older voters by suggesting that West Germany, between radicalism and Ostpolitik, is edging much too close to socialism. Franz Josef Strauss, a florid speechmaker and political infighter, already warns darkly against what he calls Brandt's "social Communist regime...
...Democratic leader was elected to the Bundestag in 1957 after a short but highly successful career as a civil servant. He quickly became known as the German counterpart of the U.S.'s Communist-hunting Senator Joe McCarthy, reportedly under the influence of his later political partner, Franz Josef Strauss. Barzel founded an anti-Communist organization called "Save Freedom," whose primary activity was a "red book" that accused 453 West German intellectuals and artists of Communist ties. He also asserted that his party acted under the will...
Eventually Barzel got his big opportunity through his party's loss of power. After the C.D.U. was left out of the government in 1969, Barzel picked up the pieces of his shattered party more deftly than anyone else. Last year, after forming an alliance with the conservative Strauss, who commands the party's Bavarian wing, Barzel won an easy victory for party leadership...