Word: snooping
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Modrow would have been hailed as a Communist reformer of the first rank. As party leader in Dresden from 1973 to 1989, Modrow was no favorite of Erich Honecker's and his now discredited Politburo. Last June economist Gunter Hager sent a commission of 100 party hacks to snoop into the Dresden operation in hopes of finding a reason to drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy...