WORLD : E. Germans Hold Big Protests

EAST BERLIN — More than 100,000 people demonstrated for democracy in Leipzig today and thousands more massed on the streets of two other cities in the biggest protests yet of Communist East Germany’s current political turmoil.

The march in Leipzig, East Germany’s second-largest city, was larger than a similar protest last week that attracted at least 100,000 people, Protestant church sources and other witnesses said.

In the southwestern city of Halle, more than 10,000 people surged onto the streets shouting “Gorby, Gorby,” in support of reformist Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, church sources said. In East Berlin, several thousand people gathered at the Gethsemane church.