The World - News from June 7, 1988

Secretary of State George P. Shultz, unable to achieve a breakthrough in his Mideast peace talks, took time out to visit 4,000-year-old monuments at Luxor, Egypt. Accompanied by an archeologist and a retinue of aides and reporters, Shultz paused before a temple relief depicting Pharaoh Ramses III receiving severed hands and other parts of his defeated enemies. “What an area,” Shultz remarked. Earlier, in Damascus, Shultz listened as Syrian President Hafez Assad said he has no intention of changing his policy to narrow his differences with Israel. Like Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who also refused to compromise during a meeting with Shultz, Assad urged Shultz to continue his peace efforts.