Word: east
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About 3000 delegates attended the emergency congress that began yesterday. The historic emergency congress, held in an East Berlin sports hall, began debating the party's proposed new program that calls for free elections and broad cooperation with opposition groups...
...East German Communists have lost much of their control over society in recent weeks and have granted historic concessions to the opposition, including opening the Berlin Wall and other borders, in a desperate effort to shed their Stalinist legacy and remain in power...
...East German Premier Hans Modrow delivered the keynote speech to the congress and echoed other calls for Communist Party unity...
Herbert Kroker, chair of the party's 25-member interim leadership committee, opened the congress by telling the delegates they were dealing not only with the fate of the party but also with the fate of East Germany...
...hundreds of thousands of East Germans began taking to the streets in October to demand free elections and other democratic reforms, the hard-line Honecker was forced to resign on October...