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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Government Agrees To Share Power
The regime's agreement to demands for a new government independent
of the Communist Party paves the war for free elections and further
political liberalization.
Premier Adamcc, during negotiations yesterday with Civic Forum
leader Vaclav Havel, agreed to form a �broad coalition government"
composed primarily of experts and professionals by Sunday. He
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CZEICIIOSLOVAKIA: Party Under the Gun
The Czechoslovak Communist Part's crisis deepened throutthout the
weekend as members demanded st%cepine. leadership and policy
changes. An emergenc session of the Central Committee met last
night: seven no% Presidium members were added. and Prague party
boss Stepan. Trade Union boss Zavadil. and hardliner Jozef Lenart
were removed from their posts. General Secretary Urbane!: has called
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USSR: Estonian Nationalism on the Rise
A surge in public support in Estonia for political groups favoring
aggre.ssive pursuit of independence suggests that, after the republic
election next month, the Estonian legislature will be pressed to advance a
nationalist agenda as forcefully as the Lithuanians have.
a substantial increase recently in public
support for radical nationalist groups, including the Estonian
National Independence Party and the Estonian Heritage Society.
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USSR: Nationalists Gain it'. Latvian Elections
Preliminary reports indicate that. as expected. Popular Front
candiJates won at least 60 percent of the nearly 13.000 city and
distrkt races decided in Latvia last Sunday. Most victorious front
candiJates. many of whom are reform-minded Communist Party
members. apparently defeated rivals backed by the Communist
Party apparatus. Only 153 officials from the party apparatus ran:
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I I UNGARY: Reorienting Security Policy
Growing liberalization promises changes in Hungary 'S foreign and
defense policies and is raising doubts ab ut its continued membership
in the li'arsaw Pact.
Budapest's foreign policy establishment apparently has concluded
that Pact opponents of its democratic transformation. not NATO,
are the greatest threat to Hungarian security. Hungary singles out
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USSR: Sim% ing a New 'Urgency in German Policy
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belieres developments in East Germany and at the ('FE talks require
rapid morentent on setting thes,JLurity framework for erentual German
reunification.
Moscow expects
pressure for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from East Germany to
build after the elections on 6 May and will seek Bonn's support for�
at a minimum�keeping some Soviet forces in East Germany
temporarily'
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ALBANIA: Resisting the Dominoes
The regime in Albania, the last Stalinist state in Eastern Europe.
appears to be trying to preempt an upheaval like that in Romania.
Albanian media reported the events in Romania factually, including
the Albanian Government's declaring "respect" for the Romanian
peoples' right to establish complete freedom, independence, and
sovereignty. Signs of antiregime sentiment among Albanian students
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EAST GERMANY: Seeking Fresh Policy Options
Some East German Politburo members have become alarmed about
East Germans' growing popular restiveness and about sluggish
economic growth. they tasked East
Berlin's Humboldt University last month to draft proposals for new
economic policies and increased popular political participation. The
.equesters reportedly did not include Politburo hardliners like Egon
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Opposition Gaining Strength
The hardline regime seems near collapse in the face of huge rallies and
opposition efforts to form a unified front and seize the political initiative,
though it may try to buy time by using force.
Some 250.000 demonstrators gathered yesterday in Prague's Wenceslaus
Square demanding thc ouster of the regime. Leading dissidents joined
a leader of the once-subservient Socialist Party and some Communist
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HUNGARY: Grosz Increasingly Isolated
General Sccretary Grosz is losing support within thc party and may
be voted out of office by yearend. Premier Nemeth, once a Grosz
protege, publicly split with the party leader this week over Grosz's
call for an "economic state of emergency." The party's youth
organization voted to sever its formal affiliation with the party and
to back the party's reform wing, singling out Nemeth along with
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