Word: deir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deir al-Bahri. A 3,400-year-old tomb-and-temple complex near Luxor, it is threatened by landslides from a nearby mountain. The most likely remedy is a + chain-link fence to protect the monument from falling rocks. Meanwhile, the Polish Center of Archaeology in Cairo has been doing restoration work on parts of the temple. One project: using gypsum to patch up and refinish a statue of the god Osiris...
...Deir el Balah refugee camp, soldiers yesterday confiscated identification documents from most of the men in the camp and told them they would have to pay their electricity and water bills before they would be returned, said U.N. official Eric Peterson, an administrator of the camps...
They said the abduction occurred between Ras el-Ein and Deir Qanoun, villages controlled by Justice Minister Nabih Berri's Shiite Amal militia. U.N. sources said Amal was helping UNIFIL search for Higgins...
...other Palestinians died Sunday of wounds suffered earlier. The army denied responsibility for the death of one of the two, 15-year-old Rami Aklouk of Deir al Balah, in the Gaza Strip...
...splitting the city, and bulldozed its makeshift banks of dirt and rubble. The city's airport is scheduled to open this week for the first time in five months. "When I hear the first plane fly into Beirut, I will know the very worst is over," said Khalil Deir, a Lebanese barber...