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ROMANIA: The Bloc's Last Holdout
President C'eausescu's certain reelection as party chief at the national
party congress that begins Monday will show Romania's isolatior from
the transformation sweeping Eastern Europe.
Ceausescu has ensured that the five-day wed ne will strirtIv fcillntv
his orthodox agenda.
Ceausescu has reiterated his Stalinist worldview in a flurry of
speeches. blasting Polish and Hungarian reforms as betrayals of
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EAST GERMANY: Emigration Raises Pressure
By letting East German refugees depart to the West, Hungary has
increased the pressure on East Germany to replace its ailing leader Erich
Honecker and to impose travel restrictions, even at the risk of further
public disaffection.
Hungary's announcement Sunday that it would temporarily suspend
restrictions on East German emigration has. as of late yesterday.
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USSR:
Balls To Mark 1939 Anniversary Tomorrow
Nationalists in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are planning
demonstrations tomorrow to mark the 50th anniversary of Me
Molotov-von Ribbentrop pact. Although Moscow reportedly intends
to renounce the treaty', party officials are trying to play down its
significance, fearful that radical nationalists in the Baltic and other
non-Russian republics will exploit the renunciation in their drive for
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POLAND; Communists, Solidarity on Collision Course
Solidarity has reversed its earlier position and now is insisting that its
sweeping election victory and the public's demand for change entitle it to
form a new Polish Government.
Leaders of the movement say they will invite the Communists to head
the sensitive Ministries of Defense, Internal Security, and possibly
Foreign Affairs. Solidarity's legislative leadership yesterday proposed
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ROMANIA: New Government Seeks To Reassure Wary Public
The !stational Salvation Front (FSN) is consolidating its power and
trying to convince a skeptical 1,./pulation that it will carry out the
promised transition to multiparty democracy.
FSN ',faders used the relatively peaceful weekend to formalize several
prodemocracy steps. President lliescu announced legalization of all
political parties, except those deemed fascist or extremist. He also
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ROMANIA: New Regime Under Fire, Still has Lead
The National Satiation Front (ESN) is taking pains to avoid the kind
of economic hardship that would make for unrest before the national
election, set for April, and appears well-situated to get through the
winter. The Front remains the favorite to win the election, though the
skepticism of students and workers might still improve the chances of the
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EAST GERMANY: Pressure for Power Sharing Rises
A record number of demonstrators turned out in Leipzig yesrerda amid
signs of rifts in the Communist Party over power sharing.
Some 500,000 demonstrators marched yesterday in Leipzig to
demand free elections, totally free travel, and an end to the party's
leading role
he party is split over whether to begin formal talks with
opposition groups.
.A new draft law, which was published yesterday. gives all East
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HUNGARY: Reformers Pushing Economic Ties to West
A party-government economic advisory committee led by reform-
minded Politburo member Nycrs is pushing for major reorientation
toward the West of the troubled Hungarian economy. The committee
will recommend seeking associate membership in the EC after 1992.
reducing trade with the Eastern Bloc, and settling all trade with the
USSR in dollars within two to five years
The program will also call or lining remaining
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BULGARIA: Resurgence of Oppnsition Party
The old-line leaders of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, long subservient
to the Communist Party, resigned at a party meeting Saturday,
clearing the way for the resurgence of a genuine opposition to
the ruling Communists. Speakers at the Saturday session demanded
that the party act as an opponent equal to the Communist Party.
Nevertheless, the new leader. Angel Dimitrov, is himself a longtime
member of the Agrarian leadership.
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USSR: Ukrainian Politics Come Alive
Rukh, the Ukraine's fast-dereloping popular from, is raising national
amsciausness in the republic and rallying support for substantial
autonomy. l'Arainian nationalism does not yet pose a problem as
immediate as that Moscow faces in the Baltic's, but the trend is toward
greater assertireness, less control from Moscow. and in the western
(*Amine outright independence. If erents begin to more too quickly, new
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