PRAGUE (Reuters) – Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists who became Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless “Velvet Revolution,” died at 75 on Sunday. The former chain smoker died at his country home in Hradecek, north of Prague, of a long respiratory illness after …
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