FILE - Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel waves to a cheering crowd in Prague, June 9, 1990. Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, died Sunday, December 18, 2011 in Prague. He was 75.
FILE - Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel waves to a cheering crowd in Prague, June 9, 1990. Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, died Sunday Dec. 18, 2011 in Prague. He was 75. (AP Photo/Kevin Harvey, File)