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- EAST GERMANY
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- With his ruling coalition threatening to implode, Prime
- Minister Hans Modrow invited twelve opposition groups to join
- the government. They agreed on condition that Modrow suspend
- his Communist Party membership and the new Cabinet include no
- other Communists. Egon Krenz, Modrow's predecessor for only six
- weeks, was summarily expelled from the Communist Party he once
- led.
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- HUNGARY
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- Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth said the Soviet Union agreed
- to withdraw all its 55,000 troops stationed in Hungary "at the
- earliest possible time."
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- YUGOSLAVIA
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- An ill-tempered session of the Communist Party ended
- abruptly when the delegates from the northern republic of
- Slovenia walked out, complaining that the other republics were
- reluctant to embrace more ambitious political reforms.
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- DEALS
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- A new U.S.-Canadian consortium formed to invest in Eastern
- Europe purchased half the General Banking & Trust Co. of
- Budapest, the city's oldest bank, for $10 million. American
- cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder is the chairman of the group,
- the Central Europe Development Corp.
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