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...most eloquent spokesman for embracing the East is Czech President Vaclav Havel. He argued last month that "we have always belonged to the Western sphere of European civilization and share the values upon which NATO was founded and which it exists to defend...
...stuff, recapturing the title the lightweights held once before in 1991 and lost in 1992. But the road to this championship actually started nine months before--in the Czech Republic...
...World Championships in Roudnice, Czech Republic, Harvard lightweight Coach Charlie Butt co-coached the national four with coxswain heavyweight crew alongside renowned coach Mike Spracklin...
...Prague Spring" in 1968, a short period of relative freedom which was abruptly ended by the Soviet invasion, set Havel's political career in motion. The significance of this period in recent Czech history is equalled only by the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, during which Havel himself assumed the presidency. Kriseova explains how the oppressiveness of the 1950s had suffocated the peoples' voices of opposition. "After a shock, society comes to its senses slowly, one person at a time." Havel entered into an arena which would become increasingly political and further from the artistic circles where he had previously been...
...support Boris Yeltsin at all costs, which has so far meant ignoring his authoritarian impulses. Russia is a special case, of course, but other states of the former Soviet empire eager for democracy and free markets are also eager for security from Russia. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic view membership in an expanded NATO as the way to achieve it. Against the wishes of his army, Yeltsin seemed to agree last August. Now, however, the Russian President has changed course, apparently as part of a deal with the military, without whose support Yeltsin would have been deposed last week...