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EAST BERLIN--Former Communist Party chief Egon Krenz resigned yesterday as East Germany's president, and a non-Communist took over as interim head of state for the first time in the nation's 40-year history...
...announcement of Krenz's resignation as head of state came in a one-sentence dispatch on the official ADN news agency...
...Krenz has been virtually without power since stepping down as Communist Party general secretary on Sunday, along with the ruling Politburo and the entire Central Committee...
...replaced longtime Communist leader Honecker in October. But Krenz, who was closely associated with Honecker's hard-line policies, had been the target of growing criticism within the party and among opposition groups...
...Krenz had been president since October 24. The post is largely ceremonial...