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Article: Bulgaria's boss quits as unrest sweeps on
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 11, 1989
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SOFIA The tumult shaking Eastern Europe toppled another domino
Friday when 78-year-old Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov followed other
veterans of the Brezhnev era forced out of power by pressure for
change.
Zhivkov's resignation as Eastern Europe's longest-serving
Communist Party chief followed by less than a month the sudden
departure of East Germany's Erich Honecker, 77.
Zhivkov, who in his 35 years in power led Bulgaria through the
Cold War and made it an impenetrable part of the Iron Curtain, also
resigned from the ruling Politburo, Bulgaria's BTA news agency
reported. In addition, it said, Zhivkov asked to be relieved of his
largely ceremonial post as state president.
The party's ...