Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been declared officially over many times in the last few weeks. Poland has replaced its government, East Germany has opened the Berlin Wall, and Czechoslovakia has begun to give in to protestors' demands. All this is happening with the encouragement, if not the active participation, of Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev...
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--The Communist premier held unprecedented talks with opposition leaders yesterday, then joined bold reformer Alexander Dubcek at a prodemocracy rally before 300,000 elated, flag-waving demonstrators...
Even some of last week's moves were ambiguous. The mass resignation of the 44-member Cabinet was not so significant as it was dramatic, since the Cabinet had been a rubber stamp. Its dismissal, however, did serve to rid Krenz of Premier Willi Stoph, a Honecker loyalist. The dissolution of the 21-member Politburo, and its replacement with a slimmer ten-member body, was far more pointed, since that is where the real power lies. Some of its more notorious hard-liners got the ax, including Stoph; Erich Mielke, head of the despised state security apparatus; and Kurt Hager...
COVER: After nearly three decades as the cold war's premier symbol, the Wall crumbles...
Dropped from the government yesterday were Petko Danchev, a deputy premier, and Stoyan Ovcharov, minister of economy and planning Both were Zhikov supporters who were ousted as non-voting members of the Politburo on Thursday...