Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time, naming twelve new ministers out of 34. Surrendering some of the day-to-day duties of government, the President appointed as his new Prime Minister a veteran politician, Fuad Mohieddin, 55, who has been active in Egyptian public life for 20 years. Among the Cabinet members shifted: Interior Minister Nabawi Ismail, who was in charge of domestic security at the time Sadat was slain...
Chief Architect Robert Mathews of Welton Becket Associates began by "unbuilding" the interior. The task was complicated: the original building plans had disappeared over the years. Assembling old photos, early Sears catalogues and newspapers for pictures of authentic decor, "historians found some clues right in the building-a bit of plaster under the assembly speaker's podium became a model for the style of the ceiling molding. Girvigian, scrambling through false ceilings, uncovered keys to the original paint job. Researchers used aerial cameras to map the mosaic floors, which were then taken up, moved and cleaned. Piece by numbered...
Reassembly of the interior was a more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...
Secretary of the Interior James Watt may merit a C for attempting to implement the President's plans, but for those who love parks, rivers, seashores and nature, an F is far too high a mark...
...successfully hid rolls of film in their pants, sewed video cassettes into the lining of coats, and photographed notes for easier concealment. Mark Phillips, 33, a London-based correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., smuggled out a videotape containing reports from CBC, CBS, NBC and BBC in the third interior compartment of a zipper bag. At one point, he said, an East German guard was "one zip away" from the tape when Phillips distracted...