Czech revolution icon Vaclav Havel dies
FORMER Czech president and hero of the Velvet Revolution Vaclav Havel, who steered his country peacefully to independence from Soviet rule in 1989, has died at the age of 75.
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, who came to be regarded as an anti-communist hero of the struggle that ended the Cold War, has died at the age of 75.