Word: krawczyk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Stephan Krawczyk, 32, a popular antiestablishment folk singer, and his wife Freya Klier, 37, a theater director, left the country rather than face charges of treasonable activities. The singer, once praised by the regime, had become an increasingly strident dissident. Krawczyk was arrested, along with about 120 others, following a Jan. 17 Communist Party rally in East Berlin during which protesters displayed banners calling for greater democracy. A poster quoted Rosa Luxemburg, a Communist heroine whose murder in 1919 was being commemorated that day: FREEDOM IS ALWAYS THE FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY...
...part, wants to preserve relatively friendly bilateral relations. East German Lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, an experienced East- West negotiator, met last week with Ludwig Rehlinger, the West German Secretary of State for Inner-German Affairs, to find a "humanitarian solution" to the growing crisis. Their discussions paved the way for Krawczyk, his family and another dissident to be escorted to West Germany. But, said Krawczyk last week, "we did not willingly leave. The alternatives we faced were either jail sentences of two to twelve years, or immediate emigration. We demand to be allowed to return to the German Democratic Republic...
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