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- <text id=89TT3318>
- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: The Sweep Of Change
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 16
- THE SWEEP OF CHANGE
- </hdr><body>
- <p>EAST GERMANY
- </p>
- <p> The Party. After serving as party leader for 47 days, Egon
- Krenz resigned, along with the entire Politburo and Central
- Committee. The party's emergency congress then selected Gregor
- Gysi to replace Krenz.
- </p>
- <p> The Government. With the party in chaos, Prime Minister
- Hans Modrow and his 28-member Cabinet, eleven of them
- non-Communists, ran the country. Krenz was replaced as head of
- state by Manfred Gerlach of the Liberal Democratic Party.
- </p>
- <p> The Opposition. The party and government acknowledged
- popular unrest by meeting with representatives of nine
- opposition groups and five non-Communist parties.
- </p>
- <p>CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- </p>
- <p> The Party. Since succeeding Milos Jakes as leader three
- weeks ago, Karel Urbanek has seen the Politburo shuffled twice.
- Only a handful of the original members remain.
- </p>
- <p> The Government. After only four days as Deputy Prime
- Minister, Marian Calfa won the top job last week when Ladislav
- Adamec quit. At week's end Calfa offered to form a Cabinet in
- which half the members would have no ties to the Communist
- Party.
- </p>
- <p> The Opposition. Civic Forum leaders announced plans to run
- candidates in the parliamentary elections they are demanding by
- next July. As demands for President Gustav Husak's resignation
- persisted, Vaclav Havel offered to fill the post.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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