12/20/2011
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-zantovsky/vaclav-havel-1936%E2%80%932011
Vaclav Havel (1936–2011)
Bemused, often unpolished, but also unswerving, the Czech playwright, dissident, and president proved instrumental in the fall of the Iron Curtain and the creation of a new Europe.
12/20/2011
Sad to announce..
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/europe/vaclav-havel-dissident-playwright-who-led-czechoslovakia-dead-at-75.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75
As Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected president after the nonviolent revolution that ended decades of repression, Vaclav Havel oversaw a bumpy transition to democracy and a free-market economy.
12/14/2011
http://www.mzv.cz/us.cz.ambassadors
The Lion and the Eagle: Czech-American Relations through the Eyes of Envoys | Ministry of Foreign Af
Symposium of current and former U.S. Ambassadors to the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia and Czech and Czechoslovak Ambassadors to the U.S.A.