Word: communists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcement was made on national television by the new interim head of state, Manfred Gerlach, the leader of the non-Communist Liberal Democrat Party. He said he will serve until Parliament elects a permanent head of state...
...Liberal Democrats were long allied with the Communist Party but have since said that they will no longer run in a Communist-led bloc...
Gerlach has been spearheading drives for reforms in East Germany and has been taking on an increasingly prominent role since the ouster of hard-line Communist Party leader Erich Honecker on October...
...country, whose political makeup is being shaped by the prodemocracy movement on a day-by-day basis, is now run by a 25-member committee of Communists who took over when the Communist leadership resigned Sunday...
Krenz has been virtually without power since stepping down as Communist Party general secretary on Sunday, along with the ruling Politburo and the entire Central Committee...