PRAGUE: Vaclav Havel, who helped Czechoslovakia break free of communism but as president could not stop it from splitting in two, was elected president of the new Czech Republic.
A playwright who led the 1989 “Velvet Revolution,” Havel was Czechoslovakia’s first post-Communist president. He will be inaugurated Tuesday for a five-year term.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 29, 1993
