Word: dresden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington and let it be known that any U.S. plans to modernize short-range nuclear weapons in Europe are out of the question now that the two Germanys are groping toward reconciliation. "No German government will discuss any weapons system that might result in nuclear weapons being targeted at Dresden and Leipzig," said a Genscher aide...
...economy. Described by the newly outspoken East German press as arrogant and autocratic, Mittag is being held responsible for wrecking the economy and cooking the figures to such an extent that reformers cannot find accurate economic data with which to work. Prime Minister Hans Modrow, the moderate former Dresden party chief who himself was investigated in June by Mittag and his minions, welcomed parliament's decision to probe abuses of power under Honecker. Said he: "An example must...
...member of the Old Guard with a certain popularity, if not exactly a following. During ( the Honecker years, he had openly criticized the deterioration of East Germany's economy and kept up the attacks even after party bosses tried to intimidate him by sending 140 "investigators" to Dresden, where he was local party chief, to look into his "ideological errors." Modrow is now considered the only man who may be able to lead a rejuvenated and reformed party to a respectable performance at the polls...
...with a slimmer ten-member body, was far more pointed, since that is where the real power lies. Some of its more notorious hard-liners got the ax, including Stoph; Erich Mielke, head of the despised state security apparatus; and Kurt Hager, chief party ideologist. Hans Modrow, 61, the Dresden party leader, was named to the Politburo and will be Premier in the new government. He has been likened alternately to Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the reformist thorn in the Soviet President's side. Some conservatives, however, remain in the reshaped Politburo, and the way Krenz rammed his slate through...
Krenz said the current Central Committee would meet today to approve holding the congress. Also today, East Germany's Parliament is to meet to name a Cabinet to replace the one that resigned last Tuesday. The reform-minded party chief of Dresden. Hans Modrow, was expected to be named premier...