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...long as Israeli troops occupied the strategic mountain. Syria's message was clear: It would fight until Israel came up with a significant pullback. Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Abdel Ghani Rafii told TIME Correspondent William Stewart in a calm and strangely relaxed Damascus last week: "If we have assur ances about withdrawal and the restoration of Palestinian rights, we can dis cuss the rest at Geneva. Disengagement is the interim step...
...maintain its pipeline to the immortals, the orchestra employs only Austrians. Its members' built-in self-assur ance serves a dual function. On the one hand, this guarantees a standard of performance for which the men themselves will fight, no matter who is on the podium. On the other, it can create a special kind of psychological hell for whoever dares to mount that podium...
Incertainties now crown themselves assur...
...ASSUR-NASIR-PAL II was the terror of the civilized world. When he completed his palace in 879 B.C. in present-day Nimrud, northern Iraq, "the Great King, the Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" celebrated with a palace-warming that included a ten-day banquet for the royal city's entire population-more than 69,000-as well as for visiting VIPs. Assur-nasir-pal II had populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history...
...were excavated are now, almost three millenniums after their original installation, the color of old ivory. Permitting fleeting glimpses of a completely vanished civilization, the sculptured stones show the King and his attendants at religious ceremonies. On one 58¼-by-53⅞-in. slab (opposite) a formalized, warriorlike Assur-nasir-pal II grasps his bow in his left hand as he balances a chalice on the fingers of his right hand. Behind him stands a personal attendant dressed in knee-length tunic, broad waistband, fringed mantle to the ankles, shawl flaring over the left shoulder. In another slab...