Was it mistaken identity?
From the moment West German Defense Minister Manfred Worner an nounced earlier this month that he had fired Four-Star General and Deputy Commander of NATO Günter Kiessling on charges of homosexuality, the issue has been troubling. Last week the case against the general was weakened considerably.
What had begun as a titillating scandal was turning into a major political embarrassment for the government of Chancel lor Helmut Kohl.
Worner had reported that eyewitness accounts obtained in a special investigation by German army intelligence agents proved that Kiessling, a bachelor,...
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