Word: vaclav
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vaclav Havel, an open letter from Prague...
...second round of talks lasted about 90 minutes. CTK said opposition leader Vaclav Havel attended, as did three other former dissidents the opposition has suggested join the government...
Civic Forum also proposed its current spokesperson, Jiri Dienstbier, as foreign minister and economist Vaclav Klaus, also a Civic Forum member, as finance minister...
Referring to Moscow's evident relief at the dramatic turn in Prague, playwright Vaclav Havel, leader of Czechoslovakia's human rights movement, said wryly, "We cannot rule out the situation that all occupiers of this country will have renounced the occupation, and only the occupied will still stand behind it." Added Havel, who is known for his absurdist dramas: "It is like something out of my own plays...
...Vaclav Klaus, a spokeman for the opposition group Civic Forum, called off any rallies today, when the opposition meets the government for more negotiations. Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec held an unprecedented meeting last Sunday with opposition leaders to try to contain the peaceful revolt...