1. The neck is adorned with two elephant heads whose trunks double as handles, and the body has four openwork roundels.
2. All four gold books are designated as State gifts by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and presented to heads of state.
3. Iraqi police found eight severed heads north of Baghdad with a note indicating they were killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors.
4. All four touched the names etched in bronze and silently bowed their heads.