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Show Soviet paper has new editor at helm MOSCOW (AP) v. 'v Cr h v . J- theoretical monthly journal Kommunist. The move appears to assure that the voice of the Communist Party will now reflect more clearly the views of Gorbachev and his reform-minde- d allies. Pravda is the country's most authoritative newspaper, but its circulation has lagged under Gorbachev as readers turn to livelier more informative news- papers. Its editor sits in on dosed meetings of the ruling Politburo. The removal of Afanasyev, a throwback to the rule of Leonid I. Brezhnev, marks a further attempt by the Soviet president to clean house of conservatives. Last month, three were retired from the Politburo. The change at Pravda's helm also capped a turbulent week in the Soviet press that first saw Gorbachev rebuke trailblazing Teditors as taking glasnost too bogin Japanese trip. nteagaoDS TOKYO (AP) Former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, arrived in Japan today on an trip along with more than 200 U.S. military dependents they invited to hitch a free ride to the Orient. The Reagans and 229 relatives of U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan arrived at Haneda Airport in southern Tokyo at 2 p.m. aboard a chartered TWA Boeing 747. Reagan said he was "delighted" to be back in Japan. The former chief executive made a state visit to Japan in 1983 and attended the annual summit of industrialized nations in Tokyo in 1986. "I deeply valued the working relationships I had with Japanese leaders during my time in the White House," he said in short speech above the roar of jet traffic. "Nancy and I have a special fondness for the Japanese people." The Reagans are in Japan at the invitation of the Japanese government -- 11-d- ay - Pravda tpld its readers today that a "confidant of Mikhail S. Gorbachev is replacing its conservative editor, who had resisted letting tb? Communist Party daily fully .embrace the new openness . sweeping the Soviet press. In a front-pag- e report, Pravda "said Viktor G. Afanasyev had resigned and been replaced by Ivan T. Frolov, an advisor to Gorbachev for the last year and a former editor of the party's A: World Friday, October 20, 1989 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah Viktor Afanasyev far, threatening to sack them. Some Soviet observers inter- preted his criticism one week ago of the editors who are the i 1 AP Laserphoto and the Fujisankei Communications Group. Fujisankei has refused to confirm reports Reagan will receive about $2 million for the visit, during which he and his wife will attend several charity events and meet Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, Emperor Akihito and other government figures. The media conglomerate said it will spend about $7 million on the visit. The Reagans were flown by helicopter from Tokyo to Fujisankei'i Hakone Open Air Museum in the hills near Mount Fuji where they will stay through Saturday. It is Reagan's first major excursion since he had surgery Sept. 8 to drain fluid from his brain after suffering a head injury in a horseback riding accident over the summer. d The chartered jet was with spouses, children and parents of U.S. military personnel in Japan. half-fille- Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan talks as his wife Nancy stands beside him, after arriving in Tokyo this morning. most outspoken practitioners of glasnost as a way of softening the blow of Afanasyev's removal for party conservatives. They interpreted Gorbachev's tactics as taking the middle course at a time of rising tension over the poor state of the economy and ethnic unrest. The departure of Afanasyev was announced by the official news agency Tass on Thursday and also reported on state-ru- n television in its nightly news report. Pravda said the Politburo had on Thursday accepted Afanasyev's request that he be transfered to "scientific work." Opposition figure says give Krenz a chance - An East GerBERLIN (AP) man opposition figure said people have been too quick to condemn the country's new leader and he urged citizens to give the reputed hardliner a chance to institute reforms, a newspaper said today. On his first full day as head of the country, Egon Krenz on Thursday chatted with factory workers in East Berlin and portrayed himself as open to dialogue and change. Krenz also met with a church leader and opened the way for a new law regulating foreign travel. The image of the active leader engaged in frank discussion with workers contrasted sharply with the stiff, reclusive manner of Erich Honecker, who was removed Wednesday after 18 years in power. Opposition groups say the new Communist Party chief's politics differ little from those of his autocratic predecessor. . But Rolf Henrich, a member of the group New Forum, was quoted today as saying Krenz should be given time to change people's minds. "It doesnt make sense to deny him a chance from the very start," Henrich was quoted as saying in the West German newspaper Bad-isch- e Zeitung. He said Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was also once a ' supporter of the "party apparatus. "And look how excited we all are about what's he doing now," Henrich said. Krenz, 52, faces the most serious threat to orthodox Communist rule in East Germany's history, as tens of thousands flee to the West and thousands of others who do not wish to leave agitate for a more open society; He already has said the party will resist the democratic reforms under way in Poland and Hungary. '' ' ifi3 s 40-ye-ar Nonetheless, West Germany's ARD television network said his meeting with factory workers would have been "unthinkable only a few weeks ago." Chinese digging out from under quake that killed 29 Victims of a BEIJING (AP) series of deadly earthquakes in rural northern China said today they owed their lives to an initial temblor that sent them fleeing from tSeir homes before a second ' ever had," Liu Rongzhen, a peasant farmer in Xicaitian Village, told a Western reporter. "I was asleep in the house when the first quake woke me up. It rocked the walls and we went outside. With the second quake the house collapsed." About half the mud and wattle homes in the impoverished dusty than 10,000 homes were reported town of 820 were heavily damaged. destroyed by the quakes, the re- A short distance away, in Bucun, a village of 1,280, not one home was gion's worst in 13 years. The official China Daily said left standing. 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