Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other East bloc developments yesterday...
...Reform-minded East German Communists demandedan investigation into alleged diversion of hardcurrency revenues from about 100 party-ownedbusinesses, and a high-ranking Communist said theparty has lost 200,000 members since September...
...West Germany, Bonn's Die Welt newspaperreported Soviet military leaders told East Germantroops not to use force against prodemocracydemonstrators in their country
...most poignant single tragedy befell the small (pop. about 1,200) community of East Coldenham, N.Y., 40 miles northwest of New York City. More than 120 children were eating lunch in the two-story cafeteria of an elementary school when a blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller...
Hope and resignation. Like oil and water, they do not mix well, yet those are the conflicting emotions that course through East Germany now that the Wall has come down. More of the former perhaps than the latter, as this artificially created country longs for a fresh start after 40 years of orthodox Communist rule, as it yearns for free, multi-party elections and economic rebirth...