E. German government resigns amid unrest
BERLIN (AP) - East Germany’s govern
ment resigned Tuesday amid growing nation
wide unrest, a continuing exodus of thousands
of its people and pleas from within the Com
munist Party for a sweeping top-level shakeup.
Also on Tuesday - one day after the govern
ment introduced a proposed law promising up
to 30 days of travel to the West -- a parliamen
tary committee rejected the measure and urged
a new law allowing unrestricted stays abroad.
The 44-member Council of Ministers re
signed jointly, government spokesman
Wolfgang Meyer said. The cabinet, led by 75
year-old Premier Willi Stoph, has little power
and implements policy made by the Commu
nist Party’s ruling Politburo. Stoph and several
other ministers also are Politburo members.
“We appeal to the citizens who intend to
leave our republic to reconsider their step once
more. Our socialist fatherland needs every
one,” said a statement issued by the outgoing
cabinet.
Since early Saturday, more than 28,000 East
Germans have fled to the West through neigh
boring Czechoslovakia. They arrived in West
Germany on Tuesday at the rate of 120 an hour.
The government will remain in office until
Parliament elects a new Council of Ministers,
Meyer said. He did not say when such an
election would occur. The party’s Central
Committee was to meet today to con
sider further changes.
Several Communist officials and three
small parties allied with the Communists have
urged the Politburo itself to resign.
Leaders “should resign without any delay”
to make way for a new Politburo and a new
Cabinet that will implemenf reforms, said the
East Berlin newspaper Junge Welt, organ of
the country’s Communist Youth organization.
At least eight Politburo jobs were on the line
at a meeting Tuesday.
New party leader Egon Krenz has said five
elderly Politburo members closely associated
with former leader Erich Honecker will be
replaced by the end of the week. Two other
Politburo members lost their jobs Oct. 18 when
Krenz took over.
The Politburo, which normally has 21
members, also discussed an ‘ ‘action program
that Krenz has said would contain sweeping
political and economic reforms.
As the government resigned and the Polit
buro met, about 5,000 people marched in East
Berlin to protest election fraud and urge free
elections. Police did not intervene as the dem
onstrators challenged the Communists mo
nopoly on power and snouted: aii power to
the people.”
On Monday, 750,000 demonstrators took to
the streets in cities around the country, with
about 500,000 in Leipzig alone.
East Germany’s embattled leaders have
been promising democratic reforms and eased
travel restrictions in hopes of halting the grow
ing unrest. But a draft allowing 30 days of
travel to the West failed to curb discontent.
The constitutional committee of Parliament
rejected the measure in its present form, just
one day after it was published, the state-run
news agency ADN said.
“The proposal docs not meet the expecta
tions of citizens . . . and will not achieve the
political credibility of the state,” the commit
tee said.
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Anti-Communist marchers
challenge party authority
MOSCOW (AP) - Anti-Commu
nist marchers, striking workers and
clashes between police and protesters
vied Tuesday with a scaled-down
' military parade on Red Square as the
Soviet Union celebrated the 1917
Bolshevik Revolution.
Even President Mikhail S. Gor
bachev tempered the Revolution Day
festivities by saying the nation’s
economic problems hang like a
“sword of Damocles over us.’’
A column of about 5,000 marchers
paraded peacefully through Moscow
to challenge Communist Party au
thority, while a few miles away,
Gorbachev and other leaders cele
brated the 72nd anniversary of the
revolution reviewing the traditional
show of military force.
Activists in the southwest republic
of Moldavia said police broke up a
crowd of thousands of would-be pro
testers and beat some of thcfn. The
military part of the parade in its capi
tal, Kishinev, was canceled.
In the Arctic city of Vorkuta, strik
ing coal miners joined the official
celebration, but carried slogans de
manding more independence and that
the government fulfill promises of
better living and working conditions.
In some trouble spots, such as the
Caucasus republics of Armenia and
Georgia, state-run media said tradi
tional parades were canceled. Boris
Sokolov, an activist from the Baltic
republic of Latvia, said a small group
of people burned a red Soviet flag in
the center of Riga, the capital.
Gorbachev, interviewed by Soviet
TV atop Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red
Square, acknowledged that many
Soviets feel threatened by food short
ages and the disorganization of the
consumer market.
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