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Dienstbier quoted Czech President Vaclav Havel's belief that "America can best help [Czechoslovakia] by helping the USSR...
Poland has journalist Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Prime Minister. Czechoslovakia has playwright Vaclav Havel as President. Last week Hungary also put a writer at the helm. The parliament elected Arpad Goencz, an English translator and former dissident who spent six years in jail after the 1956 revolution, as the country's new interim and largely ceremonial President...
Last November student leader Martin Mejstrik and dissident poet Vaclav Havel sat together negotiating with the then Communist government of Czechoslovakia...
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...
...Gamsakhurdia, chairman of the Georgian Helsinki Union and a leader of the National Forum. The son of one of the republic's best-loved writers and a distinguished translator and literary scholar in his own right, Gamsakhurdia is viewed by many of his countrymen as something of a Georgian Vaclav Havel. Twice imprisoned for his nationalist views, Gamsakhurdia believes full sovereignty can be achieved only through nonviolent opposition to Soviet rule. As he explains, "It is senseless to declare independence when the Soviet army and administration are still here. No Soviet institutions can bring freedom to Georgia. The only...