Vaclav Havel, Rebel Czech Playwright Who Led a Country, Dies at 75
Vaclav Havel, who went from being an imprisoned dissident playwright in Communist Czechoslovakia to the elected president of the newly free Czech Republic, died Dec. 18. He was 75.
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