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Guilty 
A Bucharest court found two communist-era police officers guilty yesterday in the 1985 killing of a dissident imprisoned for writing critically about former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The court sentenced the two to 22-year prison terms each after finding them guilty of the murder of dissident Gheorghe Ursu, a writer and engineer arrested for his anti-communist views and writings critical of the Ceausescu regime. The two, Col. Tudor Stanica and Col. Mihai Creanga, will only have to serve 11 years in prison due to a 1998 amnesty which halved sentences for all crimes committed before that year. (AP)