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...there a Gorbachev acolyte lurking in the official wings? Wolfgang Berghofer, 46, is one such candidate; as the mayor of Dresden, he met with opposition leaders two weeks ago. Other potential reformers who might pressure Krenz for change...
Retired after 31 years as chief of intelligence. A clever innovator, he knows where the bodies are buried and the moles are burrowed. Last spring, while promoting his book Troika, a story of East-West relations, he expressed admiration for Gorbachev...
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 of a tailor, Krenz joined the Young Pioneers in his early youth and became a full-fledged Communist Party member by 18. He spent three years at the party academy in Moscow, then returned home to rise quickly through the party ranks. He has been a member of the party...
...layman had inaugurated the previous week. Pitirim's commentary, though as innocuous as a sermonette after an American late movie on television, was nonetheless historic: the first time in 72 years of Communist rule that a clergyman's sermon had been broadcast. Coming six weeks before President Mikhail Gorbachev's scheduled meeting with the Pope at the Vatican, the show underscored Soviet leaders' increasing tolerance of religious practice...
...official voice of the Communist Party, Pravda could hardly avoid addressing President Mikhail Gorbachev's ambitious agenda. But the paper did so unevenly, sometimes approving changes and at other times reflecting the views of the Politburo's conservative members. As for investigative journalism that turned up scandals from the past, Afanasyev gradually grew tired of exhumed skeletons. "To dig around in the dirty linen of our history," he told the daily Sovetskaya Rossiya in September, "merely serves to lead people away from the solution of our contemporary problems...