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- <text id=89TT2846>
- <title>
- Oct. 30, 1989: Closet Reformers
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 30, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- EAST-GERMANY
- CLOSET REFORMERS
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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:
- </p>
- <p>HANS MODROW, 61
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p>MARKUS WOLF, 67
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>WOLFGANG VOGEL, 67
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>HERMANN KANT, 63
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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