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...Though relations between West Germany and Eastern Europe have greatly improved, Brandt regards his policy of reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef Strauss, a power in the opposition Bavarian Christian Social Union, urged only last week that Brandt abandon his Ostpolitik and "return things to where they were...
...music does not outdo the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Ray Charles, Prokofiev, Orff, Richard Strauss or any other of the influences to be found in it. But it does fuse those elements into a new kind of thespic amalgam that has high dramatic point, melodic joy, and rarity of rarities, wit. Tim Rice's lyrics occasionally turn mundane in the otherwise commendable effort to speak in contemporary terms, but his psychologically aware variations on the Gospels are often adroitly arresting. Already beginning to doubt the steadfastness of his friends, Christ tells the Disciples at the Last Supper...
Connally's closest companions in Washington are Democrats. High among them is Robert Strauss, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, to which Connally still contributes $100 a month. Connally practically never drinks, avoids the Washington cocktail circuit, and accepts only a few of the more than 1,000 social invitations that he receives in an average week. Several other Cabinet members turn down invitations to parties that they know Connally will attend; they recognize that he will have center stage, and they do not want to be outshone...
...Willy Brandt's Social Democrats won power two years ago, West Germany's Christian Democratic Union has been a party without a leader. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 67, the defeated Chancellor, went into a deep sulk and was eventually talked into stepping down as party chairman. Franz Josef Strauss, 56, the burly, ultraconservative leader of the C.D.U.'s Bavarian wing, maneuvered on the sidelines. Meanwhile, Rainer Barzel, 47, took on the burden of leading the C.D.U. in the Bundestag...
...clock. As it is, the instructors work a rigid eight-hour schedule in 38 identical soundproofed cubicles, turning out penciled marginal comments and lengthy typewritten critiques on six or seven student assignments a day. "We want to be treated like professionals and less like production-line workers," argues Harmon Strauss, a former Radio Free Europe writer who is Local 427's shop steward...