Topic: Vaclav Havel

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World leaders bid farewell to Vaclav Havel

PRAGUE (Reuters) - International leaders bade farewell on Friday to former Czech President Vaclav Havel, the anti-communist dissident who led the peaceful "Velvet Revolution" and inspired human rights campaigners around the world.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband former ...
World leaders will join the Czech Republic in bidding a final farewell Friday to the country's freedom icon and first post-communism president Vaclav Havel, who died this week aged 75.French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US ...

World leaders to mourn Havel at Prague funeral

World leaders will join the Czech Republic in a final farewell Friday to the country's Velvet Revolution icon and first post-communist president Vaclav Havel, who died this week aged 75.French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US ...
Velvet Revolution icon and former Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday aged 75, was a playwright with a passion for sex, drugs, rock and roll and the politics of peace that singled him out among world leaders.Havel "was a unique ...
Thousands gathered in Prague's historic city centre on Wednesday as the Czech Republic began three days of national mourning to bid final farewell to Vaclav Havel, the icon of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.In the early morning chill, some 10,000 ...

Vaclav Havel Dies at 75

The former president of the Czech Republic, a playwright and dissident who helped spark the Velvet Revolution, died Sunday.. . "Vaclav Havel Dies...

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel dies

Vaclav Havel, who helped ended Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia and oversaw democratic and economic reforms, dies aged 75. Lindsey Parietti reports...
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