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...Long Island, politics is run by a monolithic political entity that more resembles the Kremlin than Cambridge City Hall. There is one party line, one party candidate and little room for dissent within that party. The county's party boss is also presiding supervisor of the county's largest town...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...said "several hundred thousand" people took part in the biggest rally so far in Leipzig, where some of the largest protests of the pro-democracy campaign have been held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Million in Leipzig Demand Reforms | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

Michael Turek, a Lutheran pastor in the southern industrial city of 650,000, said by telephone about 500,000 people marched. A rally Saturday in East Berlin, where the crowd was estimated at one million, was the largest protest in the communist nation's 40-year history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Million in Leipzig Demand Reforms | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...really be just ten months since Hungary took its first tentative step toward democracy by passing a law to permit the formation of independent political parties? Last week Hungary's largest opposition party named a candidate for November's presidential election -- and he stands a good chance of winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Bloc | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...wasn't it just two weeks ago that East German President Egon Krenz said he would not include opposition groups in a national dialogue? Last week a member of the East German Politburo met with the largest reform group to hear its ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Bloc | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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