Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adamec, 63, announced his resignation at a meeting with non-communist party officials about changes in the government, said Bohuslav Kucera of the Socialist Party. He quoted Adamec as saying a new, younger leader was needed to achieve a compromise...
...Calfa, a Communist, has attended most of Adamec's recent meetings with opposition leaders, who rejected the Cabinet he formed December...
...replaced longtime Communist leader Honecker in October. But Krenz, who was closely associated with Honecker's hard-line policies, had been the target of growing criticism within the party and among opposition groups...
Reform began in East Germany after Honecker was forced out following 18 years in power. Since then, a popular uprising and exodus of thousands of people to the West have forced the Communist government to open East Germany's borders and the Berlin Wall to allow citizens to travel freely...
...Communist Party also has given up its guaranteed monopoly on power...