Later that night, Amsterdam wakes to find Cutting sitting by his bed in a rocking chair, draped in a tattered American flag.

The five from Rampling Steep were taken to the main lodge and led to a platform on which a rough-hewn chair draped with a garland of fresh flowers was situated.

There would be no relaxing in the chairs and sofas draped with Navajo rugs amid the Western decor enhanced by Russell and Remington paintings and bronze sculptures.

At midnight Mass in Bethlehem, Mr. Arafat's absence was marked by an empty chair draped with a checkered Arab headscarf and a sign bearing his name.

The room stilled as Javan settled in the chair of state, now draped with the gold-lined mantle he had worn from the cathedral.

Near the back of the room sat an ornately carved and gilded chair draped with streamers of red silks.

At University Hospital, the babies stay in a 12-bed unit equipped with baby swings, rocking chairs and cribs, draped with quilts.

Besides the table the only other furniture were two carved wooden chairs draped with cloth of gold and made luxurious with embroidered cushions.

Rotary telephones sit beside old stuffed-leather chairs draped with antimacassars.

In the middle of the room, toward the back, sat an ornate chair draped with rich, red silks.