If he were to admit defeat, his presidency would be destroyed.

First, however, the Islamic world must rediscover and embrace its proud heritage.

Conscious that each society has developed legends, myths and traditions concerning the sky, the planets and the stars which form part of its cultural heritage,

The Communist Party still uses his brainwashing methods, and his legacy continues to be officially revered.

The fate of an entire people, which was faced with chronic illness, malnutrition and destruction of their cultural and social heritage, was the responsibility of the international community.

MEXICO CITY Supporters of Hugo Chávez, the recently deceased Venezuelan president, and even many of his critics, have repeatedly emphasized two supposed achievements that will burnish his legacy.

The Palestinian Authority could not be asked to introduce needed institutional reforms and security conditions while the occupying Power was deliberately violating the Palestinian people's rights and systematically destroying their heritage.

The prime minister who has done the most to make this possible has returned to the charge, clearly determined to consolidate his legacy after a spate of bad news stories.

There is no reason that the same outcome could not be achieved in the Middle East. First, however, the Islamic world must rediscover and embrace its proud heritage.

And he was describing himself as well when he cited Bloch Attached to my country, fed with her spiritual heritage and its history, unable to imagine any other country where I could breathe freely, I loved and served it with all my strength.

The prime minister who has done the most to make this possible has returned to the charge, clearly determined to consolidate his legacy after a spate of bad news stories.

He drew attention to the examples contained in the report of the Special Committee (A 60 380) of the many ongoing Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, the pillaging and exploitation of its natural resources and the plunder of its archaeological and cultural heritage, and described his Government's efforts to relieve the persistent shortage of health facilities available to Syrian Arab citizens in the occupied region.