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- WORLD, Page 61EAST-GERMANYCLOSET REFORMERS
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- Is there a Gorbachev acolyte lurking in the official wings?
- Wolfgang Berghofer, 46, is one such candidate; as the mayor of
- Dresden, he met with opposition leaders two weeks ago. Other
- potential reformers who might pressure Krenz for change:
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- HANS MODROW, 61
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- Dresden party chief. Well in tune with citizens'
- frustrations, he is regarded as the man most likely to bring
- about Soviet-style reforms. Last week he called for "deep
- change" and "comprehensive renewal in industry and science,
- society, art and culture."
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- MARKUS WOLF, 67
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- Retired after 31 years as chief of intelligence. A clever
- innovator, he knows where the bodies are buried and the moles
- are burrowed. Last spring, while promoting his book Troika, a
- story of East-West relations, he expressed admiration for
- Gorbachev.
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- WOLFGANG VOGEL, 67
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- Lawyer who has brokered thousands of prisoner exchanges.
- Though close to Honecker, he is by reputation a defender of
- freedom of travel who impresses Westerners with his acid
- criticisms of the East German system's rigidity. He has spoken
- out against the recent jailing of peaceful protesters.
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- HERMANN KANT, 63
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- President of the East German Union of Writers. A well-known
- Establishment author, he has called the refugee exodus a
- "defeat." He cautions against "pomp and ceremony and all this
- miserable smugness," and contends that the worst thing about
- East Germany is "the condition it is in today."
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