Czechs Plan Havel’s State Funeral

Business Week Monday 19th December, 2011

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus and the widow of Vaclav Havel agreed to hold a state funeral on Dec. 23 as citizens waited as long as three hours to pay their last respects to the anti-communist dissident playwright who became president.

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