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...When Czech president Vaclav Havel was in Washington last month, he told Madeleine Albright that he had a novel idea: When his current term ends, she should become president of the Czech Republic. As secretary of state, Albright is nominally in line for the U.S. presidency, but as a foreign-born citizen, she cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence...
VACLAV HAVEL Czech President shows D.C. what a moral leader looks like. Also what a friend looks like...
Meetings with the Sultan of Brunei and Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel will follow when President Mandela returns to South Africa...
WASHINGTON: As Vernon Jordan might say, mission accomplished. President Clinton's first press conference since the release of the Starr report passed relatively smoothly Wednesday -- and in many ways was more memorable for the comments of Clinton's guest, Czech president Vaclev Havel. That's just the way Clinton wanted it. "He successfully parried all questions without adding anything new to the debate," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "There's a double game going on here -- his lawyers argue the specifics, and he's not to be seen to get into legalisms...
Lessons can go both ways, though. And the older players may be picking up attitude points from the younger ones. In the semifinals in Montreal between Novotna and Sanchez Vicario, Novotna seemed veritably Venusized. During the heated second set, which went to a tiebreaker, the usually elegant Czech flipped the umpire the bird. Sanchez Vicario eventually won the match. And the tournament? It went to another old lady: Monica Seles...