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...still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before her mother's mirror in the fairy-tale house among the snow-laden Bavarian firs...
...their five ministers out of the government and demanding that Adenauer fire Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the man blamed by the F.D.P. and others for the arrest of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and four top executives of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. But as it turned out, the barrel-chested Bavarian had no intention of bowing out of the Cabinet gracefully...
...again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing the foreign press. Instead of taking note of the public out-cry against the jailing of Rudolf Augstein, Bonn has lent its tacit support to Herr Strauss' highly successful Christian Social Union campaign strategy in the Bavarian Landelection--calling those asking for his resignation Communists...
Penchant for Blunders. The distinction between firing the Defense Minister and leaving him out of the next Cabinet seemed rather fine, but it was at least acceptable to everyone, including Strauss. Fresh from his tour of the Bavarian boondocks, where he was campaigning to help his party in this week's state elections, Strauss showed up in Bonn for a stormy party caucus. Then he announced his resignation from the Cabinet...
...year-old Bavarian, his forced resignation might well be the end of a political career that once seemed headed for the chancellorship itself. Although he is bright and talented, Strauss's muscular methods have led him into many political blunders. Once, after he deliberately jumped a red light, Strauss caused a national scandal by trying to fire the traffic cop who sent him a summons. More recently, he was involved in an unsavory case of favoritism in contract awards for military housing. He has since been exonerated. If he is to retrieve his reputation and once again climb back...