Aging Konrad Adenauer squeaked through the West German Cabinet crisis last week.
Der Alte's coalition partners, the Free Democrats, had triggered the trouble by pulling their five ministers out of the government and demanding that Adenauer fire Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the man blamed by the F.D.P. and others for the arrest of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and four top executives of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. But as it turned out, the barrel-chested Bavarian had no intention of bowing out of the Cabinet gracefully.
Sneer at the Boss. Armed with the victory of his Christian Social Union in Bavaria's state elections, Strauss...
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