Word: east
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This week's mass resignation by East Germany's Politburo and Cabinet is just the latest instance of rapid change sweeping Eastern Europe, and it could lead to either a military crackdown or a fundamental reform of the relationship between Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies, Harvard professors said yesterday...
...resignations by the East German leaders comes at a time when tens of thousands of citizens are demonstrating for democratic reform, and similar numbers are streaming out of the country, destined for West Germany...
...There is already chaos in East Germany by any traditional yardstick for measuring diplomacy and politics in Europe," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. "The question is, `Can it be controlled and managed...
...things begin to unravel too much [in East Germany], there will be a crackdown and government by decree and martial law," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a member of the National Security Council under former President Ronald W. Reagan...
Senior Lecturer in Social Studies Richard M. Hunt said that because of the volatile situation in East Germany, a "new Tienanmen Square confrontation" could occur, referring to thisspring's violent suppresion of a pro-democraticdemonstration in Beijing by the Chinesegovernment...