Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERLIN--Hard-line East German leader Ericn Honecker, who oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall, stepped down yesterday and was replaced by a younger Communist Party loyalist amid growing unrest and calls for democratic reform...
...other ruling Politburo members also lost their jobs in a shake-up during a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, but changes in East German policy from Honecker's course were unlikely...
...Communist Party leaders have made clear they will resist pro-democracy movements like those under way in Warsaw Pact allies Poland and Hungary, which yesterday approved constitutional amendments creating a democratic political system...
...Monday, West Germany's Bild newspaper reported that the dissatisfaction has spread to East Germany's regional Communist leaders...
Bild, quoting "well-informed" sources in East Berlin, said 13 of the 15 regional chiefs want the Communist Party Central Committee to remove Honecker and make changes in the 21-member ruling Politburo...