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After extensive public debate. Hungary's National Assembly
yesterday passed legislation giving workers the right to strike, a law
more liberal than the regime wanted. The new law allows either
unions or workers acting without union sanction to strike. It also
legalizes sympathy strikes, protects strikers from disciplinary action,
� and exempts strike funds from taxation or public disclosure. Both the
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BULGARIA; Reform Leaders Battle Hardliners
Bulgaria's reform-minded leadership is pushing ahead with change
despite growing opposition within the Communist Party. After the
conclusion of an unscheduled Central Committee plenum Thursday
night called to discuss the crisis in the party, Sofia announced
yesterday that Communist Party organizations in the Army would
be disbanded. After a National Assembly session broke down on
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HUNGARY: Moscow Agrees To Withdraw All Troops
The Soviet Union yesterday publicly agreed to withdraw all of
its 50,000 troops in Hungary "within the shortest time possible:'
although it probably will still try to prolong the withdrawal. Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Aboimov and Hungarian State Secretary for
Foreign Affairs SOmogyi agreed that the pace of the withdrawal would
be decided in further discussions.
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Anniversary May Provoke Confrontations
Czechoslovak authorities and dissidents are expecting major
confrontations at demonstrations on Monday to mark the anniversary
of the 1968 Soviet invasion.
large demonstrations are expected in Prague and other major cities
in Czechoslovakia
six dissident groups plan peaceful marches in
cities throughout Czechoslovakia, but prominent activists believe
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President Ceausescu yesterday publicly acknowledged continuing
disturbances in Timisoara amid growing signs of concern within th
security forces over their ability to control the unrest.
During a nationally televised s eech. C'eau poured visibly
shaken and tired. He claimed
hooligans, organize v 'um enlist" and -foreign intelligence"
forces, were behind the unrest. Ceausescu also decreed a state of
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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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