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WORLD & NATION
Wednesday, December 13,1989
Letting freedom ring .
Communist party concedes
East German system failed
EAST BERLIN (AP) — Pressured by a steady drain
of disillusioned workers and increasing calls for reunifi
cation, East Germany’s Communist Party conceded
Tuesday that a flawed brand of socialism had hurt liv
ing standards.
In the past month, the Communists have given up
their legal monopoly on power and that has raised ques
tions about their mandate to govern until national par
liamentary elections are held May 6.
Secretary of State James A. Baker met in Potsdam
with Communist Premier Hans Modrow in a show of
support for the nation’s reforms.
One pro-reform group, Demokratischer Aufbruch,
said Modrow and his Cabinet should step down. It does
not appear that position enjoys broad support, how
ever, since Modrow retains a fairly high standing
among East Germans.
Communist Party leader Gregor Gysi said his party
would ndt allow a “foreign policy vacuum” to develop
despite the upheavals of the past two months.
“What we need in this country through May 6 is sta-
bilitv,” Gysi said when informed of the reform group’s
demand.
West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gen-
scher traveled to East Berlin to meet with the group’s
leader Rainer Eppelmann. No details of the talks were
disclosed.
The party’s official daily, Neues Deutschland,
blamed socialism for poor living conditions in the most
blunt admission yet of the party’s culpability in the na
tion’s political and economic crisis.
“The governmental and administrative socialism has
definitely failed as a social system in our country,” the
newspaper said.
But, it added, a new “democratic socialism” was in
the making.
The party appeared torn over the question of closer
ties with West Germany, and the newspaper called for
“a qualified partnership” acceptable to European neigh
bors.
Allies of East Germany and West Germany have ex
pressed reservations about a confederation between the
nations or eventual reunification, as proposed by West
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Baker tours East Germany
Talks with Modrow about ‘peaceable’ reform
POTSDAM, East Germany (AP)
— Secretary of State James A. Baker
III ventured into East Germany on
Tuesday and offered U.S. economic
assistance to still another Soviet ally
bent on reform.
The bold and unprecedented visit
to the site where the World War II
Allies decided the future of a van
quished Germany was made after
Baker sent a telegram to Moscow,
advising the Soviets of his intentions.
In a 65-minute session with Prime
Minister Hans Modrow and then a
separate talk in a 19th century
church with Lutheran ministers,
Baker registered support for the
changes sweeping the onetime Sta
linist state and said the Bush admin
istration was prepared to provide
the kind of help due Poland and
Hungary as they turn toward market
economies.
But he emphasized that the
change must be peaceful. U.S. offi
cials said Baker was concerned that
retribution against fomer Commu
nist Party officials could turn into
uncontrollable violence with unpre
dictable consequences to its neigh
bors.
Standing alongside Modrow at the
conclusion of their meeting, Baker
said they had talked about “the im
portance of moving forward peace
ably and in a stable way."
“It is that, as much as anything
else, that represents the political sig
nal that we desire to send by being
here today,” Baker said.
The prime minister told Baker
the evolution in the country, which
will lead to multiparty elections in
May, was “irreversible," U.S. officials
said.
Baker’s visit to Potsdam, the site
of a 1945 conference that set condi
tions for the post-World War II divi
sion of defeated Germany, was
added suddenly to his schedule late
Monday night.
Remaining Commuists leave office;
Czechs anxious to get new president
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) — Old guard Com
munists lost their last important jobs Tuesday, and the
argument over whether Vaclav Havel will crown the
peaceful revolution by becoming president moved into
Parliament.
The presidential contest is the last round for an op
position that transformed Czechoslovakia in three
weeks from a rigid Communist state to a society in
which the party is giving up power for the first time in
41 years.
Central Prague was plastered with posters for Havel,
an often-jailed playwright whose works were banned
until the revolution began. About 500 people stood out
side Parliament, shouting his name, as deputies en
tered.
Parliament has until Dec. 23 to elect a president, un
der the constitution, but some legislators want the
choice to be made in a referendum of all citizens.
After discussions by constitutional lawyers from all
parties, Politburo member Vasil Hohorita said it might
take up to 60 days for an election to he held, whether in
Parliament or by referendum.
He said Havel, who leads the Civic Forum opposition
group, “represents something and in no way can we un
derestimate his position in society.”
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Gorbachev
rejects push
for democrat
Reform debated
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail
Gorbachev and the Soviet Pari;
rnent on Tuesday rejected;
formers’ efforts to revoked
Communist Party’s monopohi
power and push the national^
the road to multiparty democrao
taken by Moscow’s allies
But as the Congress of Peoplt
Deputies began its winterses®
in the Kremlin, hundredsofp
liamentarians supported del*
on altering the party’s legals
tus, indicating the idea is gain;
popularity as reforms shaked
Soviet Baltic and F.astern Europf
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cally the nation’s highestpolidE^,
body, gave Gorbachev the agent
lie wanted for its 10-day sessi#
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on the economy.
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Soviet president said. “So
there are no itnprovementsin
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agenda is righting the ecodoqi
the stages of economic refe;^^
and our approach to the
five-year plan,” Gorbachev
He said the country needed'i
never before,” discipline and
sponsibility.
In other East bloc dt
opments Tuesday:
• Thousands of Bulgai
rallied in Sofia outside a Com
nist Party Central Comm;
meeting to make sure the C®
munists keep their promise!
reforms — including free th
lions and an end to the pan
monopoly on power.
An official said the party lac
enough talented peopletop
mote its doctrine and managed!
economy.
• Secretary of State Jamesi
Baker III met in Potsdamh;
East German Premier Hansfl
row and told him of U.S.supM
for the reforms taking plaa
there.
East Germany’s Commuik
Party newspaper conceded ibtii
botched brand of socialism lu
degraded living conditions, l«
said those times are past andi
new “democratic socialism" ist
the making.
• Czechoslovakia’s ousiel
Communist hard-liners lost tie
last positions of power as j
ment formally accepted theirkI
ignations.
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