TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.

Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

Around the Bloc

EAST GERMANY

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.

HUNGARY

Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth said the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw all its 55,000 troops stationed in Hungary "at the earliest possible time."

YUGOSLAVIA

An ill-tempered session of the Communist Party ended abruptly when the delegates from the northern republic of Slovenia...

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

DAVID CAMERON, British Prime Minister, on England's soccer manager, Fabio Capello, who resigned after challenging the FA's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy; Terry denies a charge of racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.