TITLE

Vaclav Havel

PUB. DATE

April 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;4/27/92, Vol. 112 Issue 16, p21

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Vaclav Havel, 56, president of Czechoslovakia, announced last week that he will run for re-election. His popularity; He worries about not having a country to govern; Slovakia's largest party wants the region to elect its own president.

ACCESSION #

9204271639

 

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