He also repeated his longstanding assertion that "we will liberate Palestine, we will liberate the Golan and Lebanon."

A Door of Fire' In a separate commentary the radio said "a door of fire" would open against Iraq's adversaries and promised "destructive surprises" for the allies, an apparent reference to Iraq's longstanding assertions that it has weapons of mass destruction.

The long extracts from the Government report, as published in The Observer today, appear to support Mr. Rowland's longstanding assertion that the Fayeds misrepresented their backgrounds and their financing at the time of the takeover bid.

Mr. Reagan also mentioned President Bush several times during his testimony, but Mr. Reagan's comments did not conflict with Mr. Bush's longstanding assertion that his knowledge of the affair was limited.

But other key posts in the advisory committee and the executive team running the ministry remain vacant, despite the Bush administration's longstanding assertions about the need to restore Iraqi oil production quickly in order to jump-start the economy.

Besides being concerned about questions in the report about the leadership of the agency, top Treasury officials have said they are deeply disturbed by longstanding assertions that Mr. Higgins has been insensitive to widespread problems of sexual harassment and racial discrimination in the agency.

Many detainees at Guantánamo Bay were regularly subjected to harsh and coercive treatment, several people who worked in the prison said in recent interviews, despite longstanding assertions by military officials that such treatment had not occurred except in some isolated cases.

Turning to Saudi Arabia, a close ally, the administration repeated a longstanding assertion: "Freedom of religion does not exist."

The findings, covering 1988 to 1992, appear to lend support to longstanding assertions by prisoners and human rights groups that the Shin Bet routinely mistreated Palestinian detainees, using methods defined by the groups as torture.

For Leslie E. Robertson, the structural engineer who helped design the twin towers as a young man back in the early 1960's, the latest findings buttress his longstanding assertion that the towers were fundamentally sound.