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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...
...action against Der Spiegel. After all, he insisted on television, possible treason was involved: "I maintain that the arrests and searches were carried out by the responsible organs of the government because of the urgent suspicion of a crime directed against the security of the German people." But Strauss remained a major political embarrassment...
Mende telephoned the news to Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. As if he were doing der Alte a favor, Mende smoothly suggested that the resignation would enable the Chancellor to form a new government free of "personal liability.'' The liability he was talking about was Strauss. Adenauer's stony reply: "We will discuss...
...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...
...concert halls a U.S.-born singer who has already made it big in Europe. This season's entry is Mezzo-Soprano Grace Bumbry, 25, who made her Manhattan concert debut last week in Carnegie Hall. Her performance of Duparc songs, Italian songs, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Strauss lieder and Negro spirituals was eloquent exposition of a native talent that has been too long coming home...