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Milos Jakes is the hard-line leader of the ruling Communist Party and, unlike other East bloc leaders, has resisted reforms orchestrated by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Late last month Mikhail Gorbachev privately encouraged the leaders of Estonia and the other two Baltic republics, Latvia and Lithuania, to keep pushing for "self-determination." But, Gorbachev continued, "you must not demand that you leave the U.S.S.R." There were nods in the room from those who fear a violent Russian backlash against the Balts for their self- assertiveness and against Gorbachev himself for his tolerance of separatism...
...East Germany the situation came close to spinning out of control. Considered a hard-liner, Krenz succeeded the dour Erich Honecker as party chief only three weeks ago, and eleven days after a state visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Ever since, Krenz has had to scramble to find concessions that might quiet public turmoil and enable him to hang on to at least a remnant of power. He has been spurred by a series of mass protests -- one demonstration in Leipzig drew some 500,000 East Germans -- demanding democracy and freedoms small and large, and by a fresh wave of flight...
...member National Assembly voted unanimously by a show of hands to oust Zhivkov and to replace him with Petar Mladenov, who took over from Zhivkov as party chief last week. Deputies praised Mladenov for his "enthusiasm" for perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program...
...President doesn't comment on football games, said a White House spokesperson. Meanwhile, the President offered comment on the other superpower conflict currently raging by sending a cable to President of the Soviet Union Mikhail S. Gorbachev expressing hopes for "a calm and peaceful period of change" in Eastern Europe...