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...East Germany. It started with freedom marches in Leipzig. For a long moment, it looked as though there might be another Tiananmen after all. On Oct. 9 the 77-year-old party boss Erich Honecker ordered the police to use "all available force" to clear the streets, but Egon Krenz, then in charge of security, persuaded him to rescind the order. Each week the Monday demonstrations grew, to 200,000 on Oct. 23, to 480,000 on Nov. 6. The marches, always peaceful and sober, increasingly impressive, spread throughout East Germany...
East Germany's Communist Party granted the ultimate concession when its leader, Egon Krenz, and the other nine members of the Politburo resigned last week, along with the entire 163-member Central Committee. Three days later, Krenz stepped down as head of state, a move that left him stripped of the powers he had inherited only a month and a half earlier from his discredited predecessor, Erich Honecker. Manfred Gerlach, who heads a small party until now bound to the Communists, was named to replace Krenz in the ceremonial post of President. Honecker meanwhile was in quick succession expelled from...
Gorbachev also contends that the future of well-managed reform depends on the party continuing to run the show, an argument that would surely bring a smile to the face of just deposed East German party leader Egon Krenz. "Preserving the vanguard role for the party, from our point of view, is extremely necessary, especially in the time of perestroika," insists candidate Politburo member Yevgeni Primakov. "The party is the only consolidating force in our society, and in our federation...
...Party. After serving as party leader for 47 days, Egon Krenz resigned, along with the entire Politburo and Central Committee. The party's emergency congress then selected Gregor Gysi to replace Krenz...
Lick 'Em, Stick 'Em by H. Thomas Steele (Abbeville; $19.95). Once upon an envelope (circa 1900 to 1930), posters were reduced to the size of postage stamps. Some were tiny comedies -- a giraffe advertising neckwear, a pig promoting lard -- others dazzling designs by Egon Schiele and Rockwell Kent. They became, says the lively text, "the common man's art gallery," and this homage deserves the same stamp...