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- WORLD, Page 16THE SWEEP OF CHANGE
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- EAST GERMANY
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Opposition. The party and government acknowledged
- popular unrest by meeting with representatives of nine
- opposition groups and five non-Communist parties.
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- CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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