Crisis E. Europe
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demonstration against the influence of the Soviet 'Union and against the East | German police took place on October 27 in Berlin.
At the end of the celebraition of East Germany's national day, hundreds of young people assembled in the Alexanderplatz chanting anti-bureaucratic slogans and others in support of Wolf Bier man, the poet and singer expelled from East Germany a year ago.
Police attacked demonstrators, who kept reassembling when they were dispersed.
Reports speak of dozens of arrests and injuries.
Romania strike
The 'denial' of the Romanian authorities only lent conviction to the persistent istories of a major strike of miners in the Petrosani region in August.
The strikers are reported to have kidnapped a local party bureaucrat and to have released him after their demands were met.
The "denial' coincided with more signs that the ¡Romanian bureaucracy is not resting easily in its bed.
Party Secretary Ceacescu Iast month made a series of bitter complaints in a meeting of party bureaucrats of the faults and serious deficien¡cies' of the Communist Party sad the "self sufficiency' of some of its bureaucrats.
r'olish problems Polish Party Secretary Edmand Gierek has also been doing some public siring af the difficulties of the Polish This took place in a macion of the CP Central Committee called to discuss de success of last year's "economic manoevre' which re up prices of basic foods.
Gierek admitted the perststeace of 'difficulties sadly resented by the population'.
His report was a story of 'corruption, waste, theft of socil property, alcholism, aegligence, favouritism, faile of management to respect planning norms' and much etse besides.