GR translation: "that wiener" and "the Wheel"

[Mike Jing]

P389.5-14   Here comes that wiener again. Shapes only a foot away—they
might have risen up out of the water. He spins around, catches sight of a
broad, clean-shaven face, hair combed lionlike straight back, glimmering
steel teeth, eyes black and soft as that Carmen Miranda’s—
       “Yes,” no least accent to his English whispering, “you were followed
all the way.” Others have grabbed Slothrop’s arms. High in the left one he
feels something sharp, almost painless, very familiar. Before his throat
can stir, he’s away, on the Wheel, clutching in terror to the dwindling
white point of himself, in the first windrush of anaesthesia, hovering
coyly over the pit of Death. . . .

Is "that wiener" referring to this previous passage?

Boots? What would they want with—yaaahhh! Boots, indeed, yes. We know
beyond peradventure who has to be on the other end, don’t we. Slothrop can
hear all the man’s metal parts jingling with glee. In the smoky Berlin sky,
somewhere to the left of the Funkturm in its steelwool distance, appears a
full-page photo in Life magazine: it is of Slothrop, he is in full
Rocketman attire, with what appears to be a long, stiff sausage of very
large diameter being stuffed into his mouth, so forcibly that his eyes are
slightly crossed, though the hand or agency actually holding the stupendous
wiener is not visible in the photo. A SNAFU FOR ROCKETMAN, reads the
caption—“Barely off the ground, the Zone’s newest celebrity ‘fucks up.’ ”

Also, is "the Wheel" referring to the "breaking wheel", a torture device?
Or is it something else entirely?
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