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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those jeers apparently never reached East Berlin. Last week party elders demonstrated just how out of touch they are with the masses by awarding Krenz the country's top political trophy. Erich Honecker, for 18 years the country's unsmiling, unbudging leader, was relieved of his posts as head of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Trading Places | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Krenz, who had long been expected to succeed his mentor, will get no honeymoon, since the change at the top does not alter the crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Trading Places | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Analysts were united at least in this: Krenz is no Mikhail Gorbachev. True, Gorbachev was no Gorbachev when he ascended to power almost five years ago. But while Gorbachev was aligned early on with reformist factions within the Communist Party, Krenz is indelibly marked as Honecker's creation. The son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Trading Places | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

His words gave the country's fledgling opposition little cause for optimism. While Krenz called for a "new course" and "dialogue with all the citizens of our country," he also made it clear that he had no intention of bringing any of the freshly organized reform groups into the dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Trading Places | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

The devastation of San Francisco -- and a calamity for Santa Rosa and San Jose and every other California city from Eureka to Salinas -- began at 5:12 a.m., at the first light of what would have been a lovely day. A dreadful howling sound shattered the dawn, as the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First The Shaking, Then the Flames | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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