Indonesia's Sukarno haughtily withdrew from the United Nations and set up his own competing operation in Djakarta (only China joined); Egypt's Nasser (Saddam's sometime inspiration), who planned to unite and dominate the Arab world, died quietly in bed after being humiliated by Israeli arms; Khomeini's global revolution has essentially been voted out even m its Iranian homeland; and Cuba's Castro probably still hopes to become the new Sim6n Bolivar of Latin America.

For comparison, the Pantheon's diameter is less than 45m, and while no one will ever claim that Roissy 2F aspires to the nobility and intensity of the great Roman building, it is a considerable step forward for the Andreu team, which up to now has tended to produce rather dumb spaces, both in Paris and elsewhere like Djakarta (AR November 1995).

She heads to Djakarta, Indonesia, at month's end to portray renowned primatologist Birute Galdikas, the woman whose work with orangutans has been likened to that of Dian Fossey's with gorillas and Jane Goodall's with chimpanzees.