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...Krenz reaffirmed the Communist Party's pre-eminence yesterday, telling military academy graduates it was "at the head of qualitative changes going on in society...
BERLIN--Hundreds of thousands of East Germans marched for democracy last night, the eve of a trip to Moscow by new leader Egon Krenz for talks with the Soviet bloc's champion of reform, Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Krenz may face resistance within ruling circles as well. One source who has good Soviet connections and contacts within East European diplomatic circles said, "Krenz is engaged in a deep power struggle because some of the district party bosses were against him. The Central Committee was not unanimously for him." Still, Krenz is regarded by the other 20 members of the Politburo as the best they have to offer. Krenz, who is more animated and garrulous than Honecker, is also better attuned to the television age. He ordered up a camera crew to record his exit from the Central Committee...
...words gave the country's fledgling opposition little cause for optimism. While Krenz called for a "new course" and "dialogue with all the citizens of our country," he also made it clear that he had no intention of bringing any of the freshly organized reform groups into the dialogue. "Our society already has enough democratic forums in which different interests from various parts of the population can express themselves," he said. While Krenz acknowledged that "problems in recent months had not been sufficiently assessed," he stated that the party would maintain firm control. "Socialism," he said, "is not negotiable...
...Egon Krenz, 52, succeeds the deposed Erich Honecker, 77, but Krenz's hard-line credentials suggest that social and economic reform will not soon follow. -- In South Africa, the white government and black leaders tiptoe closer to negotiations. -- An interview with black leader Walter Sisulu. -- Touchy times for the Soviet press -- and Boris Yeltsin...