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...Ludwig Erhard's stock has been going down faster than any glamor issue on the Big Board. Climbing living costs have tarnished his image as the creator of West Germany's economic miracle. A sharp setback for his Christian Democratic Union in the key state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia took the steam out of his reputation as the country's No. 1 vote getter. Even his special relationship with the U.S. was called into question after he came away from a Washington visit in September without a promise from Lyndon Johnson to reduce the amount...
Humiliating Headlines. It came about with the sudden defection of his coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, whose 49 votes were enough to give Erhard control of the Bundestag. The basic issue seemed to be Erhard's 1967 budget, which, largely owing to the "offset" purchases of U.S. weaponry, is expected to run $1 billion into the red. His own Christian Democratic ministers agreed that taxes would have to be raised to cover the costs of large purchases of U.S. weaponry. But Vice Chancellor Erich Mende and his three F.D.P. colleagues in the Cabinet cried "nein...
Levels of Loyalty. A candidate's role seems to suit Gerstenmaier, a former lecturer in theology who was imprisoned by the Nazis for his part in the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life. Though he recently promised to support Chancellor Erhard to "the point of exhaustion," he also indicated that the point might be quickly reached. "The time might come," said Gerstenmaier, "when loyalty toward country would be greater than loyalty toward party and person...
After a party caucus last week, Barzel announced: "Erhard is and remains Chancellor. We want the public debate to stop." Barzel's pronouncement rang a little hollow, since he is among those angling for Erhard...
...Erhard feels that a fight is beneath his dignity. Instead, his strategy, as one aide puts it, is to remain silent and "let the whole thing run out of steam." Constitutionally, he cannot be ousted unless a majority of the Bundestag can agree in advance on a successor, and that is out of the question as long as Erhard wants to stay. He realizes that the potshots are intended to wear down his will and lead him to resign. The Chancellor seems to have no such in tent, confided to a visitor last week: "I will survive all this...