Feb. 08, 1993: Havel Returns TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993 Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
Time Magazine THE WEEK WORLD, Page 21 Havel Returns

Seven months after he resigned the presidency of the Czechoslovak federation to protest its disintegration, Vaclav Havel is a President once more. Elected to a five-year term by the parliament of the four-week-old Czech Republic, Havel will preside from the same office in Prague's Hradcany Castle over about two-thirds of his former country. The onetime playwright and erstwhile communist-era dissident promised to maintain a "moral dimension" in his government and to serve as a "more experienced and wiser" statesman in promoting accord with his nation's new neighbor, Slovakia.