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Rumania's Nicolae Ceaunsescu, 68, appears to be in failing health, and Gorbachev may already have a protege waiting. He could be Ion Iliescu, 56, who reportedly studied with the Soviet leader in Moscow. In East Germany the likely successor to Honecker is Egon Krenz, 48, a former Communist youth leader...
Favorite Marc Girardelli, the Austrian-born overall World Cup leader who is skilling for Luxembourg, finished third, and Egon Hirt of West Germany was fourth...
...monitored more carefully what was going on at Continental. Ideally, corporate directors are wise and prudent overseers of an institution's full-time staff. But many of the country's 15,000 banks get only minimal supervision from their boards. In a poll released last week by Egon Zehnder International, a consulting firm, 29% of bankers surveyed said their boards of directors fill roles that are only "passive" or "largely ceremonial...
When the outcome of the Bundestag vote was announced, government deputies gave Chancellor Kohl a standing ovation. Social Democrats and the Greens, by contrast, sat in dejected silence. "For me, this is a black day," said Egon Bahr, the SPD disarmament spokesman. "But this is still the beginning...
...ideological era has come to an end." It was this decade long process of unilateral moral and political disarmament which contributed a great deal to the utopian confusions that have surfaced in Western Europe concerning the nature of the Soviet Union. If one draws out the logical conclusions of Egon Bahr's hopes for "change through rapprochement" the last stop can easily be the peace movement's slogan of "make peace without weapons...