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These days Japan ranks as a major stop on the international concert circuit. Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony have just finished a three-week visit; Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony are playing now. Next week Native Son Seiji Ozawa comes in with the San Francisco Symphony. On a refueling stop in Anchorage, the Met crowd encountered the entire company of Britain's Royal Ballet in the airport waiting room. They were on their way home to London from Tokyo...
...Christian Democrats have yet to convert the S.D.P.'s problems to their own profit. Under the lackluster leadership of Helmut Kohl, the C.D.U. has produced no clear platform, economic proposals or solutions of its own. Moreover, Kohl's chief rival for party leadership, the demagogic Bavarian conservative Franz-Josef Strauss, frightens most West Germans even more than the left-wing Jusos of the S.D.P...
...would dominate a Christian Democratic return to power? The answer is none other than Franz Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after several years of political eclipse to become one of the most important power brokers in Bonn...
Strauss's comeback began last October when the C.S.U., under his leadership, captured 62% of the vote in the Bavarian state elections, giving it the largest majority enjoyed by any party in any German state assembly. Since then, to demonstrate that he can draw crowds outside his rural, conservative and Roman Catholic bailiwick in Bavaria, he has barnstormed into Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and even the working-class, traditionally left-leaning Ruhr. This week Strauss flies off to Peking-at the invitation of the Chinese-to re-establish his credentials in foreign affairs...
...hrlicher Mann (a dangerous man). That may be a reaction not only to his ultraconservatism but also to the authoritarianism he demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick Bavarian accent. His fondness for German Sekt is well known, and before his 1957 marriage to a brewer's daughter, he frequented Bonn's winehouses and Munich's cafes...