The World - News from Aug. 12, 1985
Three leading Czechoslovak dissidents have been arrested in anticipation of the 17th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of their country, dissident sources in Vienna said. The three were writer Vaclav Havel, Ladislav Lis, a former Communist politician, and Jiri Dienstbier, one of the three spokesmen for the Czechoslovak human rights movement, Charter 77. Police demanded that the three turn over a Charter 77 statement marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion on Aug. 20, 1968, that crushed the reform leadership of Alexander Dubcek.
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