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Honecker's replacement, 52-year-old Egon Krenz, has a reputation as a hard-liner opposed to the growing pro-democracy movement. The state-run news agency ADN said Krenz will take over as Communist Party chief, head of state and head of the military, replacing his mentor in all three roles...
...Krenz, the youngest member of the Politburo, is known as a tough backer of the country's orthodox communist structure. He had been in charge of internal security issues and government-run youth organizations while being groomed as Honecker's successor...
Honecker's most likely successors, veteran Politburo members Egon Krenz, 52, and Gunter Mittag, 62, who have been filling in for him at public ceremonies, are at least as conservative. The rise of either of them to the top job would mean no change from the present course. "They are signaling that the old line is the right line for the future," says Fred Oldenburg, senior analyst at the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne...
Rumania's Nicolae Ceaunsescu, 68, appears to be in failing health, and Gorbachev may already have a protege waiting. He could be Ion Iliescu, 56, who reportedly studied with the Soviet leader in Moscow. In East Germany the likely successor to Honecker is Egon Krenz, 48, a former Communist youth leader...
Butterflies are Free. The Harold Krenz story reduced to the usual Broadway sop and filmed mechanically. With Edward Albert and Goldie Hawn...