Word: communists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EAST BERLIN--Former Communist Party chief Egon Krenz resigned yesterday as East Germany's president, and a non-Communist took over as interim head of state for the first time in the nation's 40-year history...
Opposition leaders threatened to call a general strike on Monday if Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec does not form a new national government by Sunday that includes more non-Communists than the five on the present Cabinet...
Leaders of the Communist-controlled labor organization took the unprecedented step of endorsing a general strike that the opposition has threatened if the national government is not changed this week...
Last week, the Communist Party officially relinquished its 41-year monopoly on power, and Adamec raised people's hopes by promising a coalition government...
...recent events in Eastern Europe--the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the Solidarity government in Poland, the disintegration of Hungarian Communist Party--have validated the trillions of dollars spent in the long and costly struggle in which the United States has been engaged since World...