Romanian President elect Ion Iliescu looks on during the official swearing-in ceremony at the Parliament Hall in Bucharest December 20, 2000. [Iliescu, a 70-year-old ex-communist who led Romania from the fall of Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 until 1996, called for national unity to revive a "disastrous" economy hindered by years of bungled reforms. ]