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...Cabinet itself. But in his half-century of political maneuvering, der Alte has learned what it takes to survive. Last week he squeaked through again-with a plan that probably will sacrifice his brawny, brawling Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss, the man widely blamed for organizing the clumsy crackdown on Aug-stein's magazine...
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...
...Crackdown on 'Cliffies...
...change. Said he: "The market is selling off because we have been paying too much for stocks as a hedge against inflation." Market analysts, economists and businessmen of all political persuasions agree that one event made a falling market suddenly plunge deeper and faster: John F. Kennedy's crackdown on the steelmakers who wanted to raise their prices. Kennedy's power play drove home...
...crackdown, growled the English-language Tiger Standard, "is certain to trigger Hong Kong's worst financial and industrial crisis since the end of the war." At week's end Hong Kong textile mills were planning to cut production 25% to 30%, as many as 40,000 workers stood to lose their jobs, six ships were on the high seas carrying Hong Kong cottons that could be impounded if unloaded in the U.S., and a team of Hong Kong officials nervously set off for Washington to see if anything might be done...