27 JANUARY 1990, page 11

`the Art Of The Impossible'

This is the full text of the first speech by Vaclav Havel as President of Czechoslovakia MY dear fellow citizens, For 40 years you heard from my prede- cessors on this day......

No Common Language

Stephen Handelman reports from yet another nation which is loosening the Soviet grip Kishinev TWO DAYS before Soviet troops opened fire on the citizens of Baku, I witnessed a......