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...blown up into a national tempest, rocking the 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...
...laga. Adenauer admitted that even he knew nothing of Operation Spiegel until just before the arrests were made. Who, then, was behind it? Little by little, the emerging facts pointed at a man who had been Augstein's main target for years: that baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been issued against Spiegel Editor...
...bittersweet mood of boredom (in every scene a clock seems to be ticking) is classically Chekhovian. The actors-Alexei Batalov and lya Savvina-are at once wholly natural and wholly professional, and Director Josef Heifitz' black-and-white camera work, while academic, manages magically to evoke the torpid heat of Yalta, the snowy chill of Moscow. And nowhere in the film is there a foot of propaganda-either for home consumption or for foreign eyes...
...years members of the Adenauer government, especially Franz Josef Strauss, Minister of Defense, and Walter Strauss, a secretary of state in the Justice Ministry, have been under heavy fire from Der Spiegel, which expresses views held by the government's more conservative coalition partners, the Free Democrats...
...struck back. Three times he filed defamation charges, and with some effect. Just last week, a parliamentary investigation committee cleared Strauss of Der Spiegel's claim that he had helped his friends get housing contracts. But by that time, Der Spiegel had said something far worse about Franz-Josef Strauss...