Thursday, January 13, 2011

Former Czechoslovak foreign minister dies at 73 (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 1996 file photo former Czech foreign minister Jiri Dienstbier adjusts his glases during a pres conference in Prague. Jiri Dienstbier, a journalist, anti-communist dissident and the first foreign minister of Czechoslovakia after the collapse of communism, has died. He was 73. The Czech public television and his Senate assistant said Dienstbier died Saturday Jan. 8, 2011 in a Prague hospital. They did not specify the cause of death. (AP Photo/Michal Dolezal, CTK, File)AP - Jiri Dienstbier, the reporter turned dissident who joined Vaclav Havel to help topple one of East Europe's most repressive regimes — and then served under Havel in Czechoslovakia's first post-communist government — died Saturday. He was 73.


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