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...legislation requires final approval from the country's new non-Communist president, Vaclav Havel...
Some 3 million of Germany's expellees were uprooted from the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia seized by Hitler in 1938. The power of those old passions was demonstrated when Vaclav Havel, shortly before he was elected President of Czechoslovakia, observed that in a spirit of reconciliation the country might offer an apology to the ethnic Germans who were forced out of their Sudetenland homes after the war. Communist hard-liners in Czechoslovakia spotted the mischief potential in that comment and made sure everyone knew what Havel had said. Sure enough, outraged demonstrators marched in Prague demanding that no apology...
...sober up. "For 40 years you have heard on this day from the mouths of my predecessors . . . how our country is flourishing, how many more millions of tons of steel we have produced, how we are all happy, how we believe in our government," the newly elected President Vaclav Havel told the nation. "I assume you have not named me to this office so that I too should...
...with brio. She has publicly criticized Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies and rallied British writers to think more politically. She marches for Soviet Jewry. She organizes petitions and badgers officials to help free dissident writers in jails across Europe and Africa. One of these has made history: playwright Vaclav Havel, the new Czech President. For years, from his prison cell, he exchanged letters with Pinter. The couple will visit Havel to share his triumph in February...
PROFILE: Czech man of conscience Vaclav Havel...