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...election date was advanced from May 6 to March 18, as Premier Hans Modrow warned that the economy was worsening and that the government could no longer ensure public safety. Nine reform groups agreed to each name a Minister Without Portfolio to join Modrow's Cabinet. Former leader Erich Honecker was arrested and then released, being too sick to remain in jail. The homeless ex- President and his wife Margot are staying with the village pastor of Lobetal, near Berlin. Honecker will be tried for treason in March...
Despite such second thoughts, Gorbachev's earlier words had a profound effect on East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow. Two days later, Modrow signaled that he too had finally read the handwriting on the collapsed Berlin Wall. "Germany should once again become the united fatherland of all the citizens of the German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany...
With his ruling coalition threatening to implode, Prime Minister Hans Modrow invited twelve opposition groups to join the government. They agreed on condition that Modrow suspend his Communist Party membership and the new Cabinet include no other Communists. Egon Krenz, Modrow's predecessor for only six weeks, was summarily expelled from the Communist Party he once...
...East Germany, even before the raid, the Modrow government acceded to demands that the issue of resurrecting a state security ministry be left until after elections are held on May 6. Even so, the question of order loomed larger, and the spectacle of the rampage discomfited the government and opposition alike. Said Konrad Weiss, a leader of the Democracy Now movement and an organizer of the protest that preceded the riot: "We found out that radicals in this country can easily misuse a peaceful demonstration...
...Modrow's grip on power is slipping, the authority of Rumania's new government seems to be splintering completely. Two weeks ago, 1,000 demonstrators converged on the headquarters of the ruling National Salvation Front in Bucharest, screaming, "Death for Communists!" The Front, whose eleven-member ruling board is made up entirely of former party members, immediately outlawed the Communist Party...