Word: havelent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University's governing boards select the speaker--a process traditionally shrouded in secrecy. Members of the boards would not comment on who would replace Havel as the speaker, but an announcement is expected soon...
Harvard's offer to Havel was made public in early February, when the Czech elections were only tentatively scheduled for the June 8 date. Now that the noted playwright has declined the offer, speculation is once again mounting about the identity of the Harvard Commencement speaker...
...Havel, a dissident intellectual of Prague Spring fame, had long denounced Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. He was elected president in December by a unanimous vote of the parliament. He has since said he will only serve as interim president until the parliamentary elections, but many believe he may decide to remain active on the Czech political scene...
Grzegorz Ekiert, a Cabot House tutor and research assistant in the Center for European Studies, said yesterday that "it is no wonder that it's absolutely necessary for Havel to be there for the elections" because of Czechoslovakia's tense political situation...
While the Communists are expected to receive only 5 to 10 percent of the vote, the election--in whichnearly 60 parties will compete--is seen as acentral test of the new, non-Communist governmentin Czechoslovakia. Havel and the members of theopposition who are currently in power were notelected, and therefore need these initialdemocratic elections, the first in more than 40years...