While serving as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, he worked to shield the writer and dissident Vaclav Havel, who became the ...

William H. Luers, a summer Island resident across four decades, career diplomat, and former president of the Metropolitan ...

The worlds of art and politics might seem quite separate, but here is a life that bridges them both. Two lives, in fact.

Ambassador William H. Luers, whose active promotion of American diplomacy as a primary component of U.S. foreign policy ...

By Robert D. McFadden In 1983, William H. Luers, a new American ambassador to Czechoslovakia, bet on a long shot for its future: Vaclav Havel, the often-imprisoned poet-playwright and enemy of the ...