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Protests also took place in at least eight East German cities yesterday and in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. As in Prague, the demonstrators demanded democratic reforms but also punishment of recently ousted leaders--Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria and Erich Honecker in East Germany...
Thus East Germany probably can be added, along with Poland and Hungary, to the list of East European states that are trying to abandon orthodox Communism for some as-yet-nebulous form of social democracy. The next to be engulfed by the tides of change appears to be Bulgaria; Todor Zhivkov, 78, its longtime, hard-line boss, unexpectedly resigned at week's end. Outlining the urgent need for "restructuring," his successor, Petar Mladenov, said, "This implies complex and far from foreseeable processes. But there is no alternative." In all of what used to be called the Soviet bloc, Zhivkov...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria--The Bulgarian Parliament yesterday ousted former Communist leader Todor Zhivkov as head of state and approved a series of government changes that forced out several Zhivkov supporters and put reformers into positions of power...
About 10,000 people rallied outside parliament yesterday, demanding that Zhivkov be tried in court on allegations he amassed a fortune while Bulgaria's economy deteriorated...
Mladenov has said he will implement sweeping political and economic reforms but has not offered specifics. He said the "new socialist Bulgaria" will have more respect "for [human] rights and freedom for all Bulgarians...