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Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel will not speak at this year's Commencement Exercises, declining the Harvard invitation because the speech would have fallen just one day before his country's first free elections since World...
Despite early optimism that the Czech leader would accept the Commencement offer and the honorary degree that traditionally accompanies it, an embassy spokesperson said yesterday Havel will not be able to travel to the U.S. in early June because the crucial elections are scheduled for June...
...Pact have earned Czechoslovakia an average of $850 million annually in cash or such essential raw materials as oil and mineral ores; additional revenues flow in from the sale of ammunition. All told, the arms trade accounts for a quarter to a half of Czechoslovakia's foreign exchange earnings. Havel said last week his country would continue to sell arms to democracies but not to totalitarian regimes. However, cautions Foreign Ministry spokesman Lubos Dobrovsky, "we have existing obligations that we must honor...
Landsbergis invites comparison with playwright Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia. Like Havel, Landsbergis has determined that the needs of a nation must supersede his love of his art. Still, he misses his beloved music. His aides speak of moving a piano into his office in the Supreme Council. Says Tadjuga Mackeviciene, one of his assistants: "He is able to raise people's spirits with his music." The question is whether he will be able to persuade Gorbachev to hum along...
Gorbachev's success may turn on his ability to bend Landsbergis to his will. -- Westward Ho! After a heady election, East Germans face the hard task of shaping a new government. -- Vaclav Havel delivers bad news to budding terrorists...