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...Krenz said the current Central Committee would meet today to approve holding the congress. Also today, East Germany's Parliament is to meet to name a Cabinet to replace the one that resigned last Tuesday. The reform-minded party chief of Dresden. Hans Modrow, was expected to be named premier...
...Since Krenz replaced hard-liner Erich Honecker as party chief in October, 10 full members of the ruling 21-member Politburo have lost their positions. There also has been pressure for the 163-member policy-setting Central Committee, chosen under Honecker, to resign...
...telling too, in this moment of generational change, that while the East looks to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Egon Krenz, America reflects with longing back to the late John F. Kennedy, whose voice still rings resonantly from some younger, self-idealized national age, for answers. It would seem that the times are even ready for change in our own country...
...literal destruction of the Wall would, in many respects, be redundant. Honecker's successor, Egon Krenz, has promised that most East German travel restrictions will be lifted, making it possible for citizens to travel freely to the West. The thousands who jammed the West German embassy in Prague last week seeking asylum testify to the futility of mere stones to bar the exodus. Johannes Chemnitzer, a member of the East German Communist Party's Central Committee, admitted last week that with the borders open, the Wall's "meaning becomes limited and illusory...
...month ago. Within days more than 8,000 had crossed the border, and by the weekend Czechoslovakia flung open its Western border to let the growing flood pass unhindered into West Germany. Those who stayed behind stepped up the mass demonstrations for reform that have dogged President Egon Krenz from the moment he took office three weeks ago. Hundreds of thousands marched through East Berlin on Saturday calling for change. In many major cities tens of thousands attended open-air meetings with government and party leaders to vent their complaints and demands. In Moscow Krenz sought to cool the reform...