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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Restiveness Growing
Cracks are beginning to appear in the Czechoslovak regime's
monolithic facade. Prague's crackdown on the protest last Saturday
provoked a rare display of dissent from the Communist youth daily.
which characterized the demonstrators as peaceful. The head of the
traditionally subservient Socialist Pany had publicly rebuked regime
authoriti s earlier for suppressing demonstrations
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USSR: Litht.anian Party Declares Independence
The 1.ithuanian party's declaration of independence from the
Communist Party of the Soriet Union yesterday will accelerate
centrIugal tendencies in the national party and reduce the authority of
part � leaders but Moscow's response probably will be more bark than
bite
The decision, by an 855 to 160 vote, flouts the CPSU Central
Comz-nittee's insistence on a unified national party and the intense
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Teetering Between Old and Nov
Pressures far change are building slowly. although dissident actirity
could become more focused and widespread as a resu t of change in the
USSR and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Dissidents. former Dubcck-cra politicians. and religious leaders
seem inure willing titan ever to cooperate for political and religious
freedoms. Emboldened by the political liberalization elsewhere in
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EUROPE:
Long Road Ahead to Economic Well-Being
Once the eupnoria of political change begins to wane, the daunting
task of recovering from four decades of economic mismanagement will
face the new reform governments in Eastern Europe. Not only are
expectations of rapid improvement unrealistic, but people generally do
not appreciate that a wrenching drop in living standards will accompany
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EAST GERMANY: Fresh Opposition Support for Reunification
Growing signs of support for reunification by some East German
opposition movements suggest that issue may become more important
as free elections approach.
Yesterday, for the first time. an opposition party was formed with the
expressed goal of a unified Germany. The Reunification Party made
its debut at the usual weekly demonstration in Leipzig, where it led
calls for reunification among a crowd of some 200,000, according to
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Threatening Antidissident Campaign
Prague apparently is preparing to tighten the screws on dissidents in
response to rising criticism of the regime's resistance to reform. The
official media last week warned that activists have exceeded the
regime's patience and alluded to US complicity in attempts to
destabilize Prague. The regime also expelled a US Embassy officer for
allegedly participating in illegal gatherings and linked several men
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Conviction of Havel Isolates Regime
The conviction of Vaclav Havel on Tuesday shows the regime's
determination to confront the recent upsurge in dissent, but the move
will lead to more Western and Soviet criticism and will increase
tensions between hardliners and pragmatists in the party. Police also
arrested Charter 77 spokesman Tomas Hradilck on Wednesday for
"incitement." and seven other dissidents were convicted yesterday.
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EAST GERMANY: Opposition Group Prepares for Action
New Forum, the country's largest opposition group, is using grassroots
debates and an open recruitment of workers to build pressure for reform;
large demonstrations planned for nest week might force the new
leadership to choose between repression and fresh concessions.
A crowd of at least _
staged a peaceful protest in Dresden last night
Planning continues
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POLAND: Non-Communist Government To Be Announced
After meeting parliamentary leaders yesterday. President Jaruzelski
reportedly agreed to a landmark coalition government to be led by a
non-Communist and dominated by Solidarity, the crucial choice of
prime minister will be announced soon.
Jaruzelski has agreed to a Solidarity
proposal tor the opposition and the United Peasants' and Dcmocr ti
Parties to form a coalition government committed to reform.
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USSR: Succession in the Ukraine
Ukrainian party boss Shcherbitskiy, removed from the Politburo in
the major shakeup at this week's Central Committee plenum, almost
certainly will be replaced by a Ukrainian mon sympathetic to reform
and to local nationalist demands.
the Ukrainian Central Committee today will convene to
choose a new first secretary.
Comment: The plenum showed that General Secretary Gorbachev is
intent on pushing political reform while moo: aggressively managing
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