1. Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.

2. Mr Havel, who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd, smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water.

3. Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests.

4. On Nov. 17, Havel broadcast his proposed amendments to the referendum law and the existing Constitution.

5. On the other hand, Havel is a figure who commands trust and respect, unlike Iliescu.

6. The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.

7. In Czechoslovakia former prisoner of conscience Vaclav Havel became President of his country.

8. Havel signed the law on Oct. 17, but said that he would be seeking amendments to it.

9. Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis.

10. Havel, an intellectual with many contacts in the West, is conversant with various analyses of modern and postmodern conditions.

11. But Havel also has preached that the country must not be held hostage to its past.

12. Havel has become his country's beacon of democracy and hope.

13. The Havel lake froze over for about three months.

14. We're all waiting for Havel to say something fundamental.

15. A few days later, Vclav Havel came to Washington for a state visit, telling the press I was his great friend.

16. Of the three, Havel, naturally, is the best able to write about how all political careers end in failure, however many magnificent and unexpected victories there may be along the way.

17. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel is listed on the letter to Mr. Medvedev as a supporter of a pardon.

18. VACLAV HAVEL : I believe that the international community has the right to intervene in cases of genocide, and that indifference is not permissible.

19. Along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Havel hosts the annual Forum 2000 meeting in Prague, bringing together global political leaders and academics to discuss pressing world problems.

20. Things got so bad that Havel cancelled their weekly audience.

21. Havel took me to one of the jazz clubs that had been hotbeds of support for his Velvet Revolution.http://

22. Havel, a small, soft-spoken man with dancing eyes and a biting wit, was a hero to the forces of freedom everywhere.

23. Vaclav Havel transitioned from a writer of plays to the writer of his country's destiny.

24. They talk, for example, about the continuing need for state secrets and Havel seems to go along with that.

25. Mr Adamec had talks with the opposition leader, Mr Vaclav Havel, on the cabinet lineup.

26. There are thousands of informers proclaiming a new devotion to Vaclev Havel.

27. This was signed by 160 writers, including the Czechoslovak President, Vaclav Havel.

28. The deal was correctly seen as an attempt to clip the political wings of smaller parties and of President Havel.

29. It was the ultimate fairy-tale ending in the ultimate fairy-tale setting: Havel himself could not have made it up.

30. From a Korean dissident to a nuclear scientist, via Vaclav Havel, we look at some of the world's most famous political prisoners.

31. Pro-NATO former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who is chairman of the International Council of the George Soros financed Human Rights Watch, also joined in nominating Liu for the prize.

32. Havel has been active in supporting the Burmese democracy movement, including nominating opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the Nobel Peace Prize.

33. I tried to picture the moment when Dubcek and Havel appeared before the crowd.

34. It all suggests a close-knit club as Havel, and the club dues are paid by Washington in this case.

35. the Communist regime had officially collapsed eight months earlier, when Vaclav Havel, the longtime dissident, was elected president. And now the Rolling Stones had come to Prague.

36. A city of northeast Germany on the Havel River west-southwest of Berlin. It is an industrial center. Population, 95, 133.

37. The office of the Dalai Lama said he was visiting Prague without a political agenda at the invitation of long-time friend and former President Vaclav Havel.

38. In the nineties and in the face of strong popular resistance, Czech President Vaclav Havel tore down a ghetto where his people wanted to see the "travelling people" incarcerated.

39. A parallel section contains a series of emails, notes and instructions President Havel wrote to his advisers and officials about day-to-day affairs in Czech politics.

40. Former President Bill Clinton and former Czech President Vaclav Havel at the Golden Tiger pub in central Prague.

41. "Only if people around the world know the truth is there some chance for change. Films like this make it happen. " - President Vaclav Havel.

42. It quoted from a letter written by Vaclav Havel in 1975, when he was still a Czech dissident, to the country's communist president, Gustav Husak: "history again demands to be heard".

43. At last, CPC was overthrow, socialism system was toppled down, Vaclav Havel was elected new president through parliament.

44. A river, about 402 km (250 mi) long, of eastern Germany rising near the Czechoslovakian border and flowing generally north to the Havel River at Berlin.

45. "If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president" said Vaclav Havel.

46. Mr Havel argued that it represented a declaration of conformity.

47. Last year(), Havel joined with other pro-American Eastern European leaders to call on Obama not to ignore Eastern Europe during the "reset" with Russia.

48. Havel was a good friend of our UN ambassador, Madeleine Albright, who was born in Czechoslovakia and delighted in every opportunity she had to speak with him in their native tongue.

49. It was founded during Czechoslovakia's pre-war first republic by Milos Havel, an uncle of the present Czech president, Vaclav Havel.

50. In those revolts, thinkers or ideologues — from Thomas Paine to Lenin to Mao to Vaclav Havel — helped provide a unifying vision or became symbols of a people's aspirations.

51. As older girls, we were constantly inspired by the amazing people we met, politicians and great philosophers like Vaclav Havel.

52. Since stepping down as president, Havel has continued to advocate for democracy through the Human Rights Foundation, which he chairs, as well as his frequent op-eds and continued speaking engagements.

53. The only man he fears, envies and despises in equal measure is his great rival Vaclav Havel, the former president.

54. Having the support of world leaders like Mandela, Blair, King Hussein, Havel, Crown Prince Abdullah, Kim Dae Jung, Chirac, Cardoso, Zedillo, and others whom I admired helped to keep my spirits up.