The World - News from Feb. 15, 1989

Dissident Czechoslovak playwright Vaclav Havel, arrested and jailed Jan. 16 for anti-government protests, will stand trial next Tuesday on charges of incitement to a criminal act, family sources said. If sentenced, Havel could spend two years in prison. The 52-year-old author, one of the leading dissident writers in Eastern Europe, was detained by police during a peaceful demonstration to mark the 20th anniversary of the suicide of student Jan Palach, who was protesting the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Dissident sources said eight other people arrested during demonstrations marking the anniversary will be tried on charges of hooliganism.