Last Communist prime minister of Czechoslovakia dies

The last Communist prime minister of Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Adamec, has died at the age of 80. Adamec joined the Communist Party in 1946 and stayed on the sidelines during the Prague Spring reform movement which the Soviets crushed in 1968. He became prime minister of Czechoslovakia in 1988, a position he held until end of the following year, when the Velvet Revolution had brought communism to an end in the country.