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Uneasy lies the tawny head of Brazilian Beauty Queen Lúcia Petterle, 22, crowned Miss World in London last month. A cold blast from Mecca Ltd., the Miss World organization, accused Lúcia of "wild outbursts" and of failure to sign the usual one-year contract with Mecca, worth at least $75,000 in personal appearances and endorsements. Lúcia pleaded that she was finishing up some modeling obligations. To take her mind off all this hassling, the third-year medical student sailed into eight final exams...
From a theological viewpoint, at least, a Jerusalem under Israeli jurisdiction makes certain sense. More than for Christianity or Islam, the city has special meaning for Judaism. For Moslems, Jerusalem invokes deep feelings, and the Dome of the Rock makes the city the third holiest for Moslems after Mecca and Medina. Still, there is no imperative for the devout to visit the Dome as there is for them to make a hadj to Mecca. For Christians, the city will always be a unique place of pilgrimage because of its role in Jesus' life, death and resurrection...
...going to the Mecca of basketball on Saturday, and we're going to show the people there what we can do," coach Bob Harrison told his squad after its narrow win over Northeastern Thursday night...
...South Korean government, which licensed four legal casinos three years ago, now takes in about $2,000,000 annually from the operations. Macao, long the mecca of Asian gambling, has been upgraded from seedy dens where croupiers wore undershirts to gilded halls in lavish hotels boasting Thai masseuses. The tiny Portuguese colony off the Chinese mainland today draws 1,300,000 visitors a year, many of them sped there by gleaming hydrofoils or ferryboats featuring strip shows...
...knows how many unexploded bombs and shells lie beneath the azure waters of the Suez Canal to threaten dredging operations-even if the Egyptians and Israelis should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen...