Word: havelent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days that shook the world, dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was swept out of political detention into the presidency of Czechoslovakia. Last week Havel delivered to a joint meeting of Congress an extraordinary speech about democratic ideals, the rebirth of the human spirit and America's role in the post-cold...
...turned-president will speak at Harvard's Commencement this June. Harvard extended the formal invitation a few weeks ago, but has not yet gotten a reply. Now, it looks like they may have to wait quite a while. According to a U.S. State Department spokesperson contacted two days ago, Havel's office has been inundated with speaking offers--some 45 for May and June alone. Meanwhile, the spokesperson said, Havel's administration has not been too quick to respond to any of them. "They've been planning them 24 hours in advance," the State Department source quipped. Guess that...
...reasoning went like this. Despite his disillusion with "Soviet reality" and his aspirations for "humanitarian socialism," Gorbachev was neither Thomas Jefferson nor Vaclav Havel. He was Yuri Andropov's protege, the Stavropol chieftain who came to the big city and made good. He was still thought to be a devout Communist, a true believer in a creed that is, in its essence, monopolistic: there is one truth about how society should be ordered, and therefore one source of authority...
...legislation requires final approval from the country's new non-Communist president, Vaclav Havel...
Some 3 million of Germany's expellees were uprooted from the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia seized by Hitler in 1938. The power of those old passions was demonstrated when Vaclav Havel, shortly before he was elected President of Czechoslovakia, observed that in a spirit of reconciliation the country might offer an apology to the ethnic Germans who were forced out of their Sudetenland homes after the war. Communist hard-liners in Czechoslovakia spotted the mischief potential in that comment and made sure everyone knew what Havel had said. Sure enough, outraged demonstrators marched in Prague demanding that no apology...