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At an open meeting in the East Berlin headquarters of the S.E.D.'s central committee, party member Friedrich Dreke, 39, charged that the leadership had enriched itself at the expense of the people and had run a "foreign currency mafia" with illegal sources of income. Declared Dreke: "What we need...
Similarly, at a meeting of the opposition group New Forum in Potsdam's Erloser Church, an overflow crowd of 5,000 booed, whistled and stamped their feet when party theoretician Otto Reinhold, until recently one of the East German guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, proclaimed his conversion to reform by...
Wendehals literally means turn neck, the name of a rare bird that can twist its head 180 degrees; the word has been adopted by East Germans to refer to the thousands of Communist Party officials, from Egon Krenz, the current party leader, down to district secretaries, who overnight began to...
Krenz made it clear that he would fight to hold on to his job. "I am here to stay," he told factory workers near East Berlin. "I didn't take over just to push for change for a few weeks." Krenz said he was ready for an "unsparing investigation" of...
In fact, each concession by Krenz seems to have created a fresh threat to his political survival. The opening of the borders to the West, for example, permitted a torrential outflow of East German marks, carried out by citizens who at last could use them, even at absurdly low rates...