Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERLIN--East Germany's Parliament elected a leading reformer as the new premier last night, but hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Leipzig to say Communist reforms are moving too slowly...
After a historic weekend in which millions of East Germans took advantage of their new freedom to travel west, Parliament also picked a non-Communist speaker in the chamber's first secret ballot and urged accelerated changes...
...travel restrictions will be lifted, making it possible for citizens to travel freely to the West. The thousands who jammed the West German embassy in Prague last week seeking asylum testify to the futility of mere stones to bar the exodus. Johannes Chemnitzer, a member of the East German Communist Party's Central Committee, admitted last week that with the borders open, the Wall's "meaning becomes limited and illusory...
...true, that is a heady promise for a country that barely a month ago still cowered under one of the most monolithic and authoritarian of Communist regimes. The transformation east of the Wall has already been dramatic, indeed incredible: Who could have imagined East Berlin's Communist Party boss, mayor and police chief standing on the steps of city hall for five hours, listening patiently to criticisms that would once have been considered virtually treasonable...
...some Soviet politicians and scientists now claim that a cover-up is still going on. They charge that 1) the accident released at least 20 times more radiation than the government has admitted, 2) Communist officials failed to evacuate nearby towns and cities right away, although they knew of the danger, and 3) the Soviet nuclear establishment had known that the Chernobyl design was unsafe. "I believe we must launch an investigation and learn who was responsible," says Alexei Yablokov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Ecology and the Rational Use of Natural Resources in the Congress of People...