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April 13, 2011
World & Nation
Europe: Vaclav Klaus finally gets go-ahead to form new government. But election results put crimp in his style.
June 7, 1996
Lawmakers elected former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus on Friday to succeed his longtime rival, Vaclav Havel, as Czech president.
March 1, 2003
Czech President Vaclav Klaus won a second five-year term when lawmakers chose him over a University of Michigan economics professor.
Feb. 16, 2008
Battered by a campaign finance scandal, Czech Premier Vaclav Klaus resigned Saturday after half of his 16-member Cabinet quit.
Nov. 30, 1997
Vaclav Klaus, the likely prime minister after weekend elections in Czechoslovakia, said Sunday that he will begin negotiations today with his Slovak counterpart, Vladimir Meciar, on the formation of a new government.
June 8, 1992
President Vaclav Havel, the former dissident and playwright who has led Czechoslovakia since the 1989 revolution against the Communists, will withdraw his candidacy for a second term next month if the Czechoslovak federation fails to hold together, a presidential aide said Monday.
June 9, 1992
Czech and Slovak leaders agreed early today to split Czechoslovakia into two independent nations, ending a 74-year-old federation of their two peoples.
June 20, 1992
Two days before I arrived here, the first, velvet phase of Czechoslovakia’s revolution came to an end.
Oct. 31, 1990