 Complete the following phrase:  , Editor-in-chief of the partys monthly political magazine , had entered at the start of the press conference as part of the retinue of party officials accompanying Schabowski. He was the one who now remembered to ask when the new arrangements would come into force. Schabowski scratched his head, became even more flustered and waffled I was told that ... this information had already been distributed. It really should be in your possession already. He consulted his papers again. When pressed Schabowski blustered on, more consequentially than ever: it comes in, as far as I know ... is immediate ... at once. He looked for reassurance at comrades sitting alongside him on the stage. The microphones did not pick up their muttered responses which, according to a journalist who was sitting in the front row, varied. Schabowskis glaring uncertainty on the timelines was on display to television viewers of the press conference, but by 19.30, when the news reader Angelika Unterlauf read out the new regulation with the same emotionless face that she used for every Central Committee announcement, it had, for the most part been edited out of television news reports. As the evening wore on the news was picked up beyond the internal border with West Germany: East Germans were accustomed to having to interpret East German television news reports, which were sometimes unfathomable, but once the respected Hanns Joachim Friedrichs had reported the 