Word: wolfgang
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Presidential elections in Venezuela are almost a year away, but the campaign drums are already beating wildly for one unannounced candidate: Vice Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, 50, a leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Openly supported by the Communists, the darkly handsome Larrazábal ran a close race with President Rómulo Betancourt in the elections that followed, and then was sent into semi-exile as Venezuela's Ambassador to Chile. Last week Larrazábal returned...
...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...
...offensive, not to mention treasonous, in the first place? Its careful description of the inadequacy of certain German N.A.T.O. defenses did not plan to inspire confidence in the competence of Herr Franz-Josef Strauss, yet it said nothing not common knowledge among fairly sophisticated Bonn reporters. (2) Why was Wolfgang Stammberger, the Justice Minister, not notified of the arrest carried out under his deputy's orders? This question, which the deputy's dismissal scarcely settles, may prove the stickiest wicket of all for the Adenauer regime. As the Economist, one of the mess's more moderate critics, puts...
Vienna to Paris. By the time he was 30, he was all but running a small state. Long before his death in 1832, at the age of 83, he had become a one-man European cultural institution. Today Johann Wolfgang Goethe still is ranked with Homer, Dante and Shakespeare as one of the four great writers of all time. But in Britain and the U.S. he is also one of the most widely unread. The difficulty lies not only in Goethe himself, but in his translators; awed by the intricacy of Goethe's thought, and incapable of reproducing...
What alarmed the government's critics most was gradually emerging evidence that the crackdown on the magazine had been essentially political. From the start, many thought it strange that Minister of Justice Wolfgang Stammberger was not told in advance by his own underlings of plans to prosecute Augstein. As it turned out, it was not strange...