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Distant Enemies. The crisis laid bare the ugly infighting in the C.D.U. Of the leading Christian Democratic politicians, only Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder really rallied to Erhard's side. Most of the others seemed poised, in the words of Erich Mende, like "Brutuses waiting to strike down the Chancellor's Julius Caesar." Some seemed happy to make the coalition rebuilding job as difficult as possible...
...what they considered a grab for power, party leaders talked Erhard into taking it in order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would wreck NATO, and issued a glacial statement sniffing that Barzel's ideas were strictly "personal opinions...
...staff stayed away from the building during the 36-hour occupation. Instead he told the demonstrators that "Those who attempt to coerce in one direction today should realize that a university which bows to this kind of force will bow to other kinds of coercion tomorrow." Economics Professor Gerhard Meyer, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, told the squatters: "This is coercion, morally wrong and self-defeating." Faced with the Beadle tactic of avoiding battle but refusing to surrender, the students, with exams just around the bend, gave in and moved...
German Theologian Gerhard Ebeling of Tubingen University finds an arrow pointing the way to God in the problem in language. A word, he suggests, is not merely a means of conveying information; it is also a symbol of man's power over nature and of his basic impotence: one man cannot speak except to another, and language itself possesses a power that eludes his mastery of it. God, he proposes, is the source of the mystery hidden in language, or, as he obscurely puts it, "the basic situation of man as word-situation...
Erhard, however, also senses a need to improve relations with Moscow. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder has been angling for an invitation to Russia for some time. In an obvious effort to soothe Soviet fears about West German fingers on nuclear triggers, the Erhard government sent a note to 100-odd nations calling for a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Among its proposals was an offer to sign bilateral agreements with Russia and the East European countries for the exchange of military observers...