Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guenter Krusche, a senior Lutheran Churchleader in East Berlin, called for immediate"secret and free elections" to choose a newCabinet...
...leaders met, 5,000 East Berliners marched past the party building to demand free elections, shouting, "Egon, we are the competitors," and "We are the people...
Krenz is trying to cope with the mass defection of his compatriots and the blossoming over the past month of the largest protests in East Germany's 40-year history...
...this year, more than 175,000 East Germans--more than I percent of the population of 16.6 million--have moved to West Germany by emigrating legally, escaping or failing to return from approved trips abroad...
Promising a "new course" for East Germany, Krenz has announced that five members of the party's ruling Politburo would leave their posts during the Central Committee meeting. Two other Politburo members resigned when Krenz replaced hardline leader Erich Honecker on October...