Word: vaclav
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Soviet newspapers and magazines are publishing details about life in the U.S.S.R. that once would have crowned a CIA officer's career. Czechoslovakia's President, Vaclav Havel, discloses how much Semtex, a lethal plastic explosive, Prague has sold to Libya over the years (1,000 tons), while East Germany disbands its dreaded secret police. Soviet and other East bloc officials are still trying to sponge up information from the West, but they have widened their scope and deepened their activities; as Moscow tries to pump up perestroika with the technology and expertise of the West, its agents are busier than...
...year which has seen dramatic changes rock the area's political frame work, Kohl is the second major European leader invited to speak at Commencement. Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel was asked to speak earlier this year, but turned the offer down because it conflicted with the first free parliamentary elections in his country since World...
...VACLAV HAVEL...
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...
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...