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Four years ago, Vice President George Bush praised Romania's President Nicolae Ceaugescu as one of Eastern Europe's "good communists" striving for independence in foreign policy and economic reform. Today most out- siders consider his regime a black comedy: Romania produces cars but limits driving, restricts television programming to two hours per day,...