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- <title>
- Feb. 05, 1990: Around The Bloc
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 05, 1990 Mandela:Free At Last?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- AROUND THE BLOC
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- <body>
- <p>EAST GERMANY
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>HUNGARY
- </p>
- <p> Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth said the Soviet Union agreed
- to withdraw all its 55,000 troops stationed in Hungary "at the
- earliest possible time."
- </p>
- <p>YUGOSLAVIA
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>DEALS
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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