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...generals were angry with Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 53. Luftwaffe Lieut. General Werner Panitzki publicly charged that Von Hassel had delayed making needed improvements in Germany's F-104 Starfighter fleet, of which 61 have crashed, killing 35 pilots. Four-star General Heinz Trettner, the West German equivalent to the U.S.'s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went up in smoke after Von Hassel failed to consult him before ruling-of all things-that labor union organizers could enter military camps to recruit career enlisted men and officers for their ranks. The third resignation...
...Social Democratic opposition as well as some dissidents within Erhard's own coalition sought to use the resignations to embarrass the Chancellor. They demanded that Von Hassel be fired...
...publicly backed up his Defense Minister, accepting his nominations for new commanders to fill the place of the retiring generals. For one thing, Erhard did not want to set the precedent of firing a civilian Defense Minister just because a few generals were angry with him. For another, Von Hassel, the former minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein, commands the Protestant northern wing of the Christian Democratic Union, and Erhard does not want to offend some of his staunchest supporters...
...York City, Justice Maurice Wahl refused to permit one Robert Paul Jama to add "von" to his last name. In his ruling, Judge Wahl noted that "von" occurred as a prefix in German and Austrian names, "especially of the nobility," and cited Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the grant of any title of nobility. "I'm a veteran of both World Wars," declared Judge Wahl, "and when this fellow had the nerve to say he wanted a German genealogy because all his friends and acquaintances were German, that was too much...
...Revolution proposes to attain exactly this. Sincercely yours, Carlos A. von der Heyda Lawyer