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Last Czechoslovak communist prime minister Ladislav Adamec, right, attends a demonstration during the "velvet revolution" with former dissident and later the first post-communist president Vaclav Havel, left, in this Nov. 26, 1989, photo in Prague. Adamec died at the age of 80, the daily Pravo writes Monday April 16, 2007, citing information from CT24 public television channel. Adamec was prime minister in 1988-1989. After a general strike on November 27, 1989, he as the representative of the communist government started negotiations with the umbrella democratic opposition movement Civic Forum (OF). In early Dec. 1989 Adamec stepped down as prime minister to be replaced by Marian Calfa who headed a communist-dominated cabinet that led the country to elections in which the Civic Forum clearly won in June 1990. (AP Photo/CTK, Zuzana Humpalova) ** SLOVAKIA OUT **