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Throughout Egypt, the story is much the same. The walls of the Temple of Luxor, some 400 miles upriver from Cairo, are cracking so badly that President Hosni Mubarak, visiting the site in February, called for a thorough restoration. Nearly a fifth of the wall paintings at the tomb of Nefertari, across the Nile from Luxor in the Valley of the Queens, have been destroyed by salt deposits. In fact, says Zahi Hawass, who supervises the Giza Plateau for the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, "all the monuments are endangered. If we don't do something soon, in 100 years the paintings...
Such efforts will not keep pace with the inexorable deterioration of the monuments unless the Egyptians can speed up their preservation drive. That is why Mubarak's visit to Luxor, the first since he took office in 1981, was so significant. He not only called for a restoration of the Luxor Temple but also a halt to urban encroachments on all archaeological sites. If Mubarak does throw his power behind preservation, he may encourage the Egyptians to take charge of their own priceless heritage and other nations to lend a hand as well. After all, if the monuments...
...went with ((Hosni)) Mubarak walking down the ((White House)) stairs, and I said to him, "I want you to see a little touch of our democracy. This house is the people's house." And we walked. I said, "Let's not go in the elevator. At this time of day there are tourists. I don't know who they are, but I'll guarantee you they're from all over our country." And I stopped on the stairs and said, "This is the President of Egypt." The ((people)) were calling, "Hi, George...
...Israeli delegation, the absence of any public breach between the two nations during two days of talks was itself a victory. Shamir had feared that President Bush might push an international peace conference, which he had cautiously endorsed during earlier meetings last week with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. And Shamir was deeply aggrieved by another Bush pronouncement, urging Israel to end its "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
Endorsing one of Mubarak's principal proposals, Bush said that a "properly structure international conference could play a useful role at an appropriate time...