Zoia Ceausescu Wants Poodles in Jail With Her

Bucharest television today showed Zoia Ceausescu, the daughter of executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu who was arrested Sunday.

She appeared haggard, leaning against a wall in the garden of a family home, cigarette in hand, by the luxurious apartment in which she had lived.

Before she was driven away in an armored car, she asked: “Do you have room in the police truck for my poodles?”

The television also showed jewelry confiscated from the young woman, who evidently shared a taste for luxuries with her slain mother, Elena.

Among the items displayed were seven expensive watches, jewelry, $95,000 in cash, valuable paintings taken from Romanian art museums and pearls “which we don’t think are false.”

“Such a modest baggage for such a long trip (to jail),” the commentator said sarcastically.

The TV also showed meat supposedly shipped in from Vienna for her dogs.

A high-level Romanian defector said in a book published last year that he reported to Elena Ceausescu once a week with tapes secretly recorded at the residences of her children--Zoia, Nicu and Valentin--so she could keep tabs on them.