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History keeps its own peculiar rhythms, sometimes rewarding the lowly and punishing the mighty with a brutal speed that leaves spectators gasping. Once imprisoned playwrights suddenly become Presidents (witness Vaclav Havel); dictators suddenly become jailed pariahs (witness Erich Honecker, among others). And sometimes history conspires to undo a leader who had so completely embodied the spirit of the times that she seemed destined to govern forever...
...actress-model who starred in the destruction of Gary Hart's career is getting inadvertent help from a more successful candidate: Vaclav Havel. However, Rice got poor notices for her Virginia performance as a student who offers herself to a professor in the Czech leader's Largo Desolato...
While Klaus' plans are less drastic than the wags imply, he has a reputation for toughness. President Vaclav Havel himself has long argued that Klaus' shock therapy is too severe and would produce civil unrest...
...Havel's moderation suffered a setback last week when Klaus easily defeated the President's candidate to become the new chairman of the Civic Forum alliance. Although aides admitted the vote was a blow to the President, Havel's response was statesmanlike. He invited Klaus for a beer and called in the press to photograph them drinking happily together...
Where CSCE might go from there is a matter of intense debate in foreign ministries and think tanks. Last April Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel was among the first to propose that it become the core of a new all-European security organization replacing NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Moscow found the idea appealing because CSCE is the only organization that links Eastern and Western Europe -- and the U.S.S.R. belongs to it. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has been pushing a strengthened CSCE for a similar purpose: to keep the Soviets from feeling isolated and resentful...