Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERLIN--Hours after East Germany's Cabinet resigned, more than 100,000 people rallied in at least four cities to demand that the ruling Communist Party give them the right to choose their own government...
PROFESSORS of Soviet and Eastern European Studies used to live the easy life. Day after day, they sat in their cushy university offices and waited for communist leaders to speak to the press...
...longer. Now, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces major policy initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the Communist Bloc will soon generate more headlines than the Jane Pauley-Today Show feud...
...Several Communist officials and three small parties allied with the Communists have urged the Politburo itself to resign...
State television said Communist leaders would discuss an "action program" of political and economic reforms, plans to set up a constitutional court to protect citizens' rights and a law that would set up a civilian service as an alternative for those drafted by the military...