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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.
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</body></article>
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