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President of the East German Union of Writers. A well-known Establishment author, he has called the refugee exodus a "defeat." He cautions against "pomp and ceremony and all this miserable smugness," and contends that the worst thing about East Germany is "the condition it is in today...
...protege, was elevated to all three positions. Technically, the 77-year-old Honecker resigned, citing the poor health that has plagued him since he underwent gallbladder surgery last August. But few East Germans doubted that Honecker had been pushed aside by a leadership increasingly nervous about the continuing exodus of refugees to the West and the growing clamor of the stay- behinds for reform at home. At the same time, the two Politburo members in charge of the economy and mass media also lost their posts, signaling that a more extensive housecleaning might be under...
...quite possible that this might come to pass. We hope it won't, and I trust there won't be a mass exodus of Hungarians. But we won't stand in their...
After a two-day session, the 21 members of the ruling Politburo issued a statement that for the first time expressed official concern about the recent exodus of 50,000 East Germans to the West. Then, in an unprecedented gesture of conciliation, the leadership acknowledged, "We are open to discussion." Hinting that press and travel restrictions might be eased, the statement continued, "Together, we want to discuss all basic questions of our society...
That solution proved astonishingly short-lived. Within a few hours of the first transfer, new arrivals began showing up at the Prague embassy, many of them drawn by news of the safe passage of the first group. East Germany, believing that its agreement was for a once-only exodus, reacted angrily to Bonn's decision to allow more refugees into the compound...