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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- LAST EXITS IN ROMANIA. The grainy videotape of last
- December's trial and execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae
- Ceausescu and his wife never shows the couple actually being
- cut down by bullets. This gap is now suspected of hiding a
- grisly interlude. Quoting government sources in Bucharest, a
- French newspaper claims that Ceausescu was tortured to death
- following the tribunal, by Romanian soldiers who were trying
- to locate three briefcases containing numbers and access codes
- of the family's foreign bank accounts. After studying the
- photographic evidence, forensic experts at France's Carme
- Institute tentatively confirm this scenario. They note the lack
- of bullet entry marks on Ceausescu's torso, the small amount
- of blood on his body (suggesting that any gunshots he received
- came after his death) and lesions on his face resembling those
- suffered by victims of beatings.
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