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Early this month. West German politicians were confident of three things: 1) that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would resign next fall, 2) that he would be replaced by popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. and 3) that ex-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss was finished as a national figure because of his involvement in the Spiegel crisis...
...Free Democrat Wolfgang Stammberger, who resigned as Justice Minister when Der Spiegel executives were arrested without his knowledge, is replaced by Free Democrat Ewald Bucher, who violently dislikes Strauss and can be expected to investigate thoroughly Strauss's meddling in the Spiegel case...
...change is at the Defense Ministry, for it brings to the fore a new personality who will rival Schroder in the C.D.U. echelon below Erhard. Successor to Strauss is a North German named Kai-Uwe von Hassel,* 49, who was born in Tanganyika, Germany's former East African colony. Von Hassel's agility in C.D.U. party matters has long marked him as a comer...
...Hassel needs several weeks to wind up his job as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, the bleak state bordering on Denmark, there was a comic confusion about who would fill the job until he arrives in Bonn. No one seemed able to decide. At first everyone assumed that Strauss's former No. 2 man in the ministry would have the interim job, but an official spokesman named another man for the job. At last came the baffling declaration that burly Franz Josef Strauss himself would return to the Defense post until Von Hassel could take over...
...fact, made little attempt to challenge the government's right to imprison him. After all, Augstein's arrest has already resulted in 1) a Cabinet crisis in Konrad Adenauer's government, 2) the resignation of Augstein's hated enemy. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, and 3) a surge in Der Spiegel's circulation from 525,000 to more than...