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LEAD: Yielding to mass protests throughout Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party's leadership resigned on Friday, and the beleaguered Central Committee chose a younger, lesser-known Politburo member to replace General Secretary Milos Jakes.

PRAGUE PARTY LEADERS RESIGN; NEW CHIEF, 48, SURPRISE CHOICE; 350,000 AT RALLY CHEER DUBCEK

LEAD: Word surged through the crowd like a current, and it seemed that within seconds every one of the hundreds of thousands of people in Wenceslas Square learned that the entire Czechoslovak Communist Party leadership had resigned.

In Wenceslas Square, a Shout: Freedom!

LEAD: A Federal judge dismissed all criminal charges today against a former Central Intelligence Agency official indicted in the Iran-contra affair, citing Attorney General Dick Thornburgh's decision to block disclosure of classified information at trial.

Case Dismissed In Contra Affair, Clearing Agent

LEAD: In the early morning yesterday, when most of Fifth Avenue was still largely deserted - the steel vault doors in front of Tiffany & Company still tightly shut, a lone man shoveling snow in front of Cartier's - a crowd had already gathered in front of B. Altman & Company.

Altman's Last Sale: Every Memory Must Go

LEAD: On weeknights, between 8 and 9 o'clock, Maria Emilia Dalmeida is likely to be sitting at the dinner table in her apartment at Greenwich and Murray Streets in Manhattan, eating or writing. Most nights, she'll look out the window and spot a taxi driver standing against the open door of his car, relieving himself.

Sensibility of New York Offended As a Nuisance Becomes Common

LEAD: Lebanon elected another new President today, replacing the leader killed in an explosion two days ago. But the prospects for an end to 14 years of civil strife seemed as far away as ever.

LEBANESE APPOINT CENTRIST OFFICIAL TO THE PRESIDENCY

LEAD: Tens of thousands of workers were required to march to honor the re-election of President Nicolae Ceausescu as General Secretary of the Rumanian Communist Party. Page 7.

Rumanian Keeps the Reins

LEAD: ''This is the first time in my life that I have been able to say the word freedom and to feel that I am indeed a free man. For 40 years I have lived under the Communist dictatorship. We could not talk freely, we could not think freely, but we became fed up, all of us here. And now, we will never stop saying this word: freedom!

Quotation of the Day

LEAD:  International 3-8  Prague's leadership has resigned, yielding to mass protests throughout the country. The Communist Party's beleaguered Central Committee chose a younger, lesser known Politburo member as General Secretary. Page 1  Jubliant Czechoslovaks celebrated the resignation of the Communist Party leadership in Prague's Wenceslas Square, site of a week of protests, shouting ''Svabodu!

News Summary

LEAD: A remote-control bomb exploded in this frontier city today, killing three Palestinians returning by car from an afternoon prayer service.

Three Palestinians Are Killed In a Bomb Blast in Pakistan

LEAD: A brief article by The Associated Press on Sunday about expanded inspections being ordered for some Boeing 747's misidentified the aircraft model on which 28 cracks were found. It was a 747-100, an older model of the jumbo jet, not a 747-400, the newest.

Correction

LEAD: Unidentified gunmen fired three shots today moments after the Indian opposition leader, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, made a campaign stop at a polling place. Mr. Singh was not wounded in the incident, which took place in a village in his home constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

Shots Miss India's Opposition Leader

LEAD: The Government today declared four residential areas in South Africa open to all races. But the step was soon assailed by critics of apartheid, who said that it did not go far enough.

South Africa Opens 4 Areas to All Races

LEAD: The newly elected President of Lebanon, Elias Hrawi, comes from a wealthy family of landlords in Zahle, a Christian town in the Bekaa, where the bulk of Syria's 40,000 troops in Lebanon are deployed.

MAN IN THE NEWS: Elias Hrawi; An Earthy Politician Who Makes Both Ends Meet

LEAD: For the first time in 20 years, Max Rosenfels, whose family has toughed it out for almost a century in this arid, wind-swept region of southern Africa, is enjoying a productive season. The rain has been unusually promising and the end of the civil war in Matabeleland, this region of the country, has meant farming without danger.

Plumtree Journal; Uncertain Lies the Land of Zimbabwe's Farmers

LEAD: Rebels who seized working-class neighborhoods killed at least four civilians suspected of being informers for the army or members of death squads, residents of the areas and human rights monitors said today. The monitors also criticized the Government and military for bombing crowded residential areas where the rebels were holed up, leading to the deaths of an undetermined number civilians.

Abuses Seen on 2 Sides in Salvador

LEAD: The Legislative Assembly in El Salvador moved today toward final approval of sweeping new restrictions on individual freedoms, including virtually unhindered Government power to ban dissent and peaceful protest.

Salvador Moves Toward Broad Curbs on Dissent

LEAD: When word spread that Alexander Dubcek would come out of the courthouse in Bratislava on Wednesday and actually take up a megaphone, more than 2,000 protesters began to cheer and stomp. After 21 years, many wanted the returning hero to carry them away with visionary words.

Clamor in the East; Dubcek Is Back, With a Humble Face, (His Stalwarts Yearn for a Bit More)

LEAD: Poland today denied an Israeli report that it had decided to restore full diplomatic relations with the Government in Jerusalem. ''The information is not true,'' Deputy Foreign Minister Jan Majewski said. ''The Polish Government is considering the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations with Israel in the not-too-distant future, but it has not taken any decision yet.

Clamor in the East; No Israeli Ties Yet, Poles Say

LEAD: In a huge display of government control, tens of thousands of workers were marched to a demonstration here today to celebrate the re-election of President Nicolae Ceausescu as General Secretary of the Communist Party.

Clamor in the East; In Rumania, the Old Order Won't Budge

LEAD: For the last two days, the East German press has been publishing accusations of corruption and profiteering by top officials of the former Communist leadership under Erich Honecker, and the reports are coming as a shock to the public here.

Clamor in the East; Reports of Corruption in East Berlin Shock Even the Party Rank and File

LEAD: The broom that swept out the leadership of East Germany's Communist Party earlier this month also pushed away an essential political component - its living embodiment of unswerving opposition to Nazism and total devotion to Stalin, senior officials here say.

Clamor in the East; East Germany's Old Guard Included Veterans of Struggle Against Nazis

LEAD:  POLAND  June 4, 1989: Solidarity candidates achieve what the Communist Party calls a decisive majority of the popular vote in a parliamentary election, the first free election in almost a half century.  Aug. 19: Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski designates Tadeuz Mazowiecki, a senior Solidarity official and prominent Roman Catholic layman, to be the first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland since the early postwar years.

The Winds of Change

LEAD: More than eight million East Germans, equal to about half the East German population, have visited West Germany and West Berlin since the East German leaders lifted restrictions on travels to the West on Nov. 9.

Clamor in the East; For East Germans, Nice Place to Visit

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November 25, 1989

Headlines from November 25, 1989

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PRAGUE PARTY LEADERS RESIGN; NEW CHIEF, 48, SURPRISE CHOICE; 350,000 AT RALLY CHEER DUBCEK

In Wenceslas Square, a Shout: Freedom!

Case Dismissed In Contra Affair, Clearing Agent

Altman's Last Sale: Every Memory Must Go

Billboard 200

Girl You Know It's True

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Storm Front

Steel Wheels

Forever Your Girl

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 25, 1989