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...Soviet entourage and the 80 or so reporters who accompanied Gorbachev from Moscow. What the book did cover often proved useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied by two soldiers of the Chinese honor guard, did "the distinguished guest" lay a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes. And what about that passage on proper behavior at the Beijing Opera? Mikhail and Raisa never enjoyed a night...
...Oracle Temple of Siwa Oasis. The walls of this 4th century B.C. temple, where Alexander the Great was supposedly crowned King of Egypt, have developed cracks and are in danger of falling. Egyptian officials hope to save the monument by moving it piece by piece from its present site on shifting sand in the Western Desert to firmer ground. The big question is where...
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...
Besides making intensive efforts to restore specific monuments, EAO officials want to develop general strategies for keeping sites from deteriorating further. Hawass suggests creating a zone of protection around each valuable monument. "Sites in Egypt are not protected at all," he says. "We need to take away all mechanical activity for at least two to three miles around them." Tawfik proposes eventually planting trees around all outdoor monuments to protect them from winds as well as to absorb moisture. Within monuments, he wants to install clear plastic shields to prevent tourists from touching paintings and inscriptions and air-cleaning systems...
...thing I like to share with people is the Truman Balcony. You're looking across at the ((Washington)) Monument and at the Jefferson Memorial. And you see the people sometimes. If we were there right now, we'd see the people looking up past those beautiful flowers and fountains. You see the people's house symbolized by the people looking in. It's not some naive view. We're talking about the people's house, and a continuity. I said to Prime Minister Zaid Rifai,* "You guys have to come out here and see something before you leave...