Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general folderol...
...Outside of Spain opposition is more active. The political parties and trade unions that existed under the Republic continue to thrive in exile. A Spanish government in exile with representatives in a number of countries, as well as smaller Basque and Catalan groups, maintain head-quarters in Paris. The Mecca of Spanish exiles in Latin America is Mexico, which has never recognized Franco's government. In addition, Czechoslovakian Radio Pirane beams programs into Spain on a regular basis and El Mundo Obrero, the organ of the Spanish Communist Party, appears mysteriously in Madrid from time to time...
...council issued a fatwa, a religious fiat, that declared Saud no longer able to govern and authorized his brother to "discharge all external and internal affairs of state without having to refer to the King." When the news was announced by radio, every transistorized tribesman who was tuned to Mecca knew that this time it was the will of Allah...
...unofficial intelligence officer for the Indian army, he had submerged himself for months in the native population of Sind, collecting volumes of notes on everything from secret tribal alliances to the shape of women's breasts in Karachi. In 1853 he became the first Englishman to reach Mecca and live to write about it. In 1857, his expedition pushed some 800 miles through desert and jungle to discover Lake Tanganyika, and they were the first whites ever to come close to the source of the Nile...
...Stan Musial as the President's Physical Fitness Adviser by providing flabby undergraduates with a painless way to exercise. In a secret agreement, signed no doubt in the new tennis courts, Harvard and the MDC agreed to retain the path to the Business School parking lot as a mecca of winter sports...