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...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...
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...