Prosecution of former top Communist officials halted

A state attorney has halted the prosecution of former Czechoslovak top Communist officials Milos Jakes, Lubomir Strougal and Vratislav Vajnar over the shooting at Czechoslovakia's state borders, as Jakes died and the other two have a mental disease, Jan Lelek told CTK today. Jakes, who died in August aged 97 years, occupied the post of the Czechoslovak Communist Party's (KSC) secretary general before the fall of the regime in late 1989. Strougal, 95, was the prime minister in 1970-1988 and Vajnar, 90, was the interior minister in 1983-1988.