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- June 04, 1990: Last Exits In Romania
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 04, 1990 Gorbachev:In The Eye Of The Storm
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> 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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- </article>
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