Word: communist
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...counterweight to the colossus of a future reunited Germany, though France objects to ceding greater authority to NATO. And Germans themselves seem relieved that the U.S. is determined to remain a European power. Worry is widespread in both Bonn and East Berlin that East Germans' mounting anger at the Communist regime, coupled with emotional longings for "one German * fatherland," could result in violent demonstrations that would paralyze the government. The new leader of the East German Communist Party, Gregor Gysi, last week appealed to the U.S. to play a vigorous role in Europe, mostly to dampen West German pressure...
Meanwhile, demonstrations in Bulgaria showed both the importance of updating the Atlantic alliance and the difficulty of drafting plans in the face of swiftly moving events. Continuing its plunge into reform, the Bulgarian Communist Party last week expelled Todor Zhivkov, its leader for 35 years, and announced that free elections would be held in May. When the parliament postponed until January a vote on ending the Communist Party's monopoly of power, 50,000 jeering protesters encircled the parliament building. As Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Suddeutsche Zeitung, observed, "If only there weren't all these people...
...drawn. Such questions as how far Germany should extend and whether there should be an independent Poland provoked heated debate and considerable bloodshed well into the 20th century. Now they have been settled. At issue this year is not the location of Europe's borders but simply whether Communist or democratic governments should exercise power within them...
...Sakharov was not quite finished. He handed Gorbachev a handful of cables supporting the abolition of Article 6, which grants the Communist Party a monopoly on power...
...climbed to new heights abroad, Gorbachev must fend off growing attacks at home from two fronts: what he calls the "adventurists" and the "reactionaries." Last week the Soviet leader took on the adventurist radicals, criticizing them for racing "like firemen, with clanging bells" to abolish the constitutional guarantee of Communist Party rule. The Congress decided not to take up the contentious question of Article 6, voting 1,138 to 839, with 56 abstentions. But the margin of victory was not so comfortable that the Kremlin could indefinitely ignore the East European-like rush to multiparty politics. Boris Yeltsin...