Word: attack
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Meeting at East Berlin's Dynamo Football Club Gymnasium, the 2,714 delegates overwhelmingly nominated as party leader Gregor Gysi, a reformist lawyer who at 41 becomes the youngest Communist boss in Eastern Europe. Only three months ago, Gysi came under withering attack by hard-liners for representing the opposition group New Forum in its bid for legal status. Now, said Gysi after winning election, the Communists in East Germany will be merely "one party among others...
Meanwhile, the national Communist Party is under attack from within. Last month the leaders of Leningrad's Communist Party arranged an unprecedented demonstration to criticize Moscow for not defending the party against glasnost-inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but perhaps a concerted effort to oust Gorbachev. The Leningrad protest provoked a countermarch by some 40,000 incensed citizens who proclaimed their support for Gorbachev's efforts to rejuvenate the party through open criticism...
Sophomore Elizabeth Hansen, usually a defender, moved up to replace Lauren Messmore at center of the second line. Messmore missed last night's because she was ill. Without Hansen, Co-Captain Char Joslin, junior Sue Cullinane and sophomore Bev Stickles were left to weather the persistant attack of the Wildcats...
...there would probably have been considerably more saber rattling, perhaps even nuclear warnings. In the Gorbachev era, both sides go out of their way to avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, who plays a national security adviser to the Kremlin, orders the KGB to work directly with...
Even so, the Civic Forum is a model of unity when compared with the Communist Party. Under attack not only from citizens but from rank-and-file members as well, the party seems to be desperately reshuffling its players in hopes of appeasing the public. Adamec must strike a careful balance between party hard-liners and the Civic Forum's relentless pressure for swift action. Last week several Communist legislators apologized for failing to respond sooner to the popular mood. Even ousted party leader Milos Jakes supported the abolition of the party's constitutional right to lead the country...