* Shattered: Former East German leader Erick...

* Shattered: Former East German leader Erick Honecker is a broken man, barely able to comprehend the vast changes in the country he ruled for 18 years, says Maj.-Gen. Guenter Wolf, his security chief, adding: “It is difficult for him to understand everything. His whole world has collapsed.” Wolf spoke Monday to reporters touring the compound north of Berlin that housed the Communist Party. “What’s he got to live for?” Wolf asked. “He wouldn’t be able to stand appearing in public again.”

* Punishment?: Financier Adnan Khashoggi, confined to New York City while under indictment for fraud, is gaining weight, enjoying the city and biding his time, he said in an interview published Monday. The Saudi, once considered the world’s richest man, told New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams that “I do not see this as punishment, but as a pause that forces you to be bigger and better. . . Life is a game.” Khashoggi, 54, posted $10 million bail July 27 so he could live in his Fifth Avenue apartment while facing charges he helped Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos defraud the Philippine treasury.

* Postscript: Former Watergate reporter Bob Woodward was married over the weekend to his companion, Elsa Walsh, a Washington Post reporter. It is the third marriage for Woodward, 46, a Post assistant managing editor, and the first for Walsh, 32. She described the marriage as “her only, his last.”

* Turn left here: Vice President Dan Quayle expressed his concerns that his son Tucker, will reach driving age next year. The Vice President’s Observatory Hill mansion grounds have private roads on which the teen-ager can learn to drive. “Plus you have a police car in front,” Quayle said, “and a concrete wall around the place and an ambulance following behind. And I suddenly realized this isn’t going to be so bad after all.”