Word: vaclav
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DIED. MILAN HLAVSA, 49, Czech rock star whose underground group, Plastic People of the Universe, rallied 1970s and '80s dissidents such as Vaclav Havel; of lung cancer; in Prague. Hlavsa named his band for Frank Zappa's song Plastic People. The 1976 arrests of band members inspired the formation of the human-rights group Charter 77 the following year...
...Vaclav Klaus, a former free-marketeering Prime Minister, decried the de facto nationalization as a "bank robbery carried out in broad daylight." Three days after sending in the cops, the government turned IPB over to the Belgian-owned CSOB. The new supervisors found a sprawling conglomerate of some 600 interlinked companies involved in almost every kind of questionable financial practice. Of an estimated $4.6 billion in outstanding loans, probably only 20% are recoverable...
...World Bank. Trevor Manuel may be South Africa's internationally respected finance minister, but a little over a decade ago he was still on the wrong end of the tear gas and water cannon as a firebrand anti-apartheid leader. The conference's host, Czech president Vaclav Havel may be feeling a little nostalgic, too - after all, back in '68 he was just another Absurdist playwright trying to overthrow the system...
...duty, that of all the means of entertainment and expression in Renaissance England theater was the most closely censored by the crown (and that theatrical censorship was the last form of censorship to be lifted in England, not officially ending until the 1960s), that social agitators from Voltaire to Vaclav Havel to Wole Soyinka all turned to drama to express their ideas...
Recent commencement speakers include Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan; Mary Robinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland; U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health; Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, and Vice President Al Gore...