1.   Despite all the protest that his Salvation Front was too closely linked with the old communists, President Iliescu now almost certainly has a clear mandate to govern Romania.

2.   The only people the old communists would ask to be in a coalition were dead communists.

3.   The old communists look like pushovers by contrast.

4.   Djukanovic is favored by the young and the intellectuals, while Bulatovic has behind him old communists and nationalists.

5.   Here, Guevara is not a faddish icon but a national hero old communists revere and young boys and girls emulate.

6.   Old communists are back in politics.

7.   Old communists in Bulgaria and Romania are clamoring to join NATO.