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...Opposition. Civic Forum leaders announced plans to run candidates in the parliamentary elections they are demanding by next July. As demands for President Gustav Husak's resignation persisted, Vaclav Havel offered to fill the post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sweep of Change | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

That plan seems to pave the way for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a jailed playwright and symbol of Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution, and dash the hopes of Alexander Dubcek, the 68-year-old Slovak who led the "Prague Spring" reforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs to Elect President by January | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

Civic Forum, the opposition group led by Havel, proposed him for president Sunday, but Communist members of Parliament proposed a referendum of citizens to choose a president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs to Elect President by January | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...Brno, opposition leaders said the noontime action was to show support for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, who is considered a favorite to succeed Husak. Posters plastered throughout central Prague showed a smiling Havel with the caption, "Havel to the Castle," a reference to the seat of the presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs Rally in Support of New Regime | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

According to some Civic Forum supporters, Komarek is furious that Havel and his colleagues are banking on the political survival of Prime Minister Adamec instead of supporting Komarek for the position. When asked by TIME if he was a candidate for Prime Minister, Komarek responded, "I leave this open. My position personally is very modest. I don't think a well-brought-up person ! should say, 'I want to be Prime Minister.' " Komarek feels that the Civic Forum tends too heavily toward compromise and should instead mount a radical assault on the existing order. "What's needed," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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