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Velvet Revolution commemorated



Velvet Revolution commemorated

PRA99111702 - 17 NOVEMBER 1999 - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: People light candles, November 17, in Prague at a monument commemorating a violent attack by police in 1989 on students during the beginnings of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution. November 17 marks the 10th anniversary of the revolution and the end of communist rule. Many world leaders from that time, including George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, are in Prague to celebrate it. jr/sg/Sean Gallup UPI

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