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...Franz Josef Strauss, 51, the powerful Bavarian leader who was forced to resign as Defense Minister in a 1962 scandal after ordering the arrest of several staffers of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel on flimsy charges of treason. Strauss was the key man in selecting Kiesinger as the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, will make his comeback as Minister of Finance in the new government. The other is Gerhard Schroder, 56, who moved from his post as Foreign Minister under Erhard to take on the controversial and besieged position of Defense Minister. Strauss is a Catholic and a Gaullist who blames...
...Democrats began negotiating to form a coalition of their own to end the Christian Democrats' 17 years of uninterrupted rule. Desperate for a solution, Erhard's party decided to throw the choice open to a vote by its Bundestag members. On the third ballot, with the decisive backing of Strauss's Bavarian Christian Social Union, the decision went to the man who seemed best fitted to pull the divided party?and the country?together...
...foreign policy statement that echoed the Socialist stand. Even Christian Democrats were gingerly deserting some of the old doctrines. Speaking to a rally of young party members, Kiesinger allowed that "the establishment of good relations with our neighbors to the east is an obvious necessity." And Franz Josef Strauss, the powerful boss of the party's Bavarian branch, publicly backed away from his insistence on West German participation in a NATO nuclear strike force, thus opening the way for a more conciliatory policy toward the East...
...third, Kiesinger had a comfortable margin: 137 to 81 for Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and 26 for C.D.U. Parliamentary Leader Rainer Barzel. One reason was that Kiesinger had been away from the Bundestag for eight years, thus had fewer enemies. He also had a powerful friend: Franz Josef Strauss, the burly boss of the Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party's Atlanticists and not too Catholic to offend the Protestants...
...thing, the Free Democrats were now saying that they would not rejoin a Cabinet under Erhard. Burly, ambitious Franz Josef Strauss, who is boss of the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democrats, was elbowing Erhard by threatening to pull his six ministers out of the government unless the Chancellor went ahead and stepped down. And the C.D.U.'s Deputy Leader Rainer Barzel, who had been instrumental in forcing Erhard to face the caucus, was now maneuvering to isolate Erhard from any remaining support. About the only Erhard enemy not on the scene was flinty old (90) Konrad Adenauer. Though...