Word: reform
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...succeed his mentor, will get no honeymoon, since the change at the top does not alter the crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts Wolfgang Seiffert, a former adviser...
...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...
Nonetheless, there remained the central question regarding the Soviet psychiatrists: whether admitting them or barring them was more likely to encourage reform. For a year, outgoing W.P.A. president Costas Stefanis of Greece had doggedly lobbied for readmission on the grounds that it would encourage rehabilitation. He contended that the Soviets as members of the W.P.A. would be subject to greater scrutiny and influence from abroad than they would be as outcasts. Others who favored readmission, including U.S. psychiatrists Alfred Freedman and Abraham Halpern, argued that during the past few years -- especially in the months preceding the Americans' March visit...
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...
...week, other members shouted at him to flee. Havel, who was released from prison in May after a conviction for inciting antistate activities, obeyed the warning and thus avoided becoming the 16th committee member arrested by security police for unspecified reasons. In a continuing crackdown underscoring its resistance to reform, the government of Milos Jakes last week also briefly arrested five human rights activists meeting in a private apartment...