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BULGARIA: Talks With Opposition Announced
Communist Party leaders yesterday agreed to open roundtable talks
with dissident groups next week as 10.000 peoole ignored warnings
and demonstrated against the regime. The National Assembly closed
yesterday after voting unanimously to name Petur NIladenov
Commander in Chief of the armed forces to replace ousted leader
Zhivkor. It also promised action next month to repeal the
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HUNGARY: Discussing the Possibility of Neutrality
General Secretary Gorbachev's recent qualified endorsement of
Ifungary.'s decision to introduce a multiparty system will stimulate the
discussion o Hun arian neutrality already evident in official circles in
Budapest.
\Hungary wants a relationship
with the USSR similar to that of Finland�friendly but outside the
Warsaw l'act amci economically integrated with Western Europe.
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EAST GERMANY: Election Mandate for Near-Term Unification
� The impressive victory of the center-right Alliance for Germany in
yesterday's election will probably give German unification efforts
greater momentum, reduce one potential obstacle to NATO membership
for Germany., and improve the standing of Chancellor Kohl's Christian
Democrats in all-German elections.
Provisional final returns indicate the Alliance for Germany�
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EAST GERMANY: Government Falls, Plenum Opens
The resignation of the entire gorernment yeste:Way and East German
leader Krenz's anticipated purge of additional hardliners at a Central
Committee plenum opening today probably will not stop the
demonstrations or mass emigration to the Irot that are undermining
Krenc's position.
Cabinet Resigns
Initial reactions were negative to the announcement that the cabinet
had resigned and the legislature would soon convene, perhaps as early
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BULGARIA: Protests Accelerating Reform
Delay in the National Assembly is intensifying public pressure to
accelerate the reform process.
In postponing the vote on the article guaranteeing the Communist
Party's leading role, the legislature cited a constitutional requirement
to submit such measures a month in advance. The decision brought
more than 20.000 people to the parliament building. shouting. "We
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BULGARIA: Hardliners Purged at Snap Plenum
New General Secretary Petur Mladenor :emored the remaining
hardliners from the leadership yesterday at a hastily scheduled Central
Committee plenum, responding to public demands and paving the way
for more reform.
Mladenor dropped five Politburo members and 26 Central
Committee members. reinstated former Politburo and Secretariat
member Alcksandur Lilov, and elevated the Minister of Finance to
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POLAND: Catholic Church Legalized
Poland s legislature esterda
Church
w recognizing the Catholic
giving the Pope
Inc right to name all bishops, the church the ri ht to own ro ert in
its own name, and a free Catholic press.
Warsaw a
A formal exchan e of ambassadors between
the Vatican
is expected later this year.
Comment: Giving the church legal status is an indicator of the
regime's desperation for popular support, most immediately to
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HUNGARY: Reformers Take Over Party Leadership
The capture of the Communist party's leading positions this weekend
by members of the party's reform wing ensures that Hungary will
continue moving toward political pluralism. New party chairman
Rerso Nyers, an advocate of market-style economic reforms and '
democratic political change, will chair a new four-member presidium
that will serve as the party's highest policymaking body. Other
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CZE(.IIOSLOVAKIA: Oppusithin Growing Daily
.4/though the hardliners still appear to be contemplating the use offorce
to maintain their power, the burgeoning of the apposition makes the
prospect of success in repressive measures increasingly unlikely,
Some 300.000 demonstrators called for the ouster of the hardline
Communist regime in Prague yesterday. and 51).000 protesters heard
Alexander Dubcek. party leader during the Prague Spring reform
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HUNGARY: Election Campaign Heating Up
_ Polls indicate the pro-Western, market-oriented Free Democrats may
be best placed to head a coalition that would form Hmagary's fast
non-Communist government in more than 40 years after the election
on 25 March
The liberal Alliance of Free Democrats has caught up with the
centrist Hungarian Democratic Forum, according to Hungary's
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