Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting lasted only two hours and Wednesday's luncheon did not take place). A.P. recovered by getting hold of a pool photo of Sadat and Begin an hour before rival United Press International had a copy. A Baltimore Sun reporter filed the news that when Sadat prays toward Mecca, he is actually facing Baltimore. And one Israeli correspondent, lacking any other sign of progress, timed Carter's and Begin's initial embrace (nine seconds). Sadat got a longer hug (13 seconds) from Carter, he reported, but Begin's was more "intense...
...imperial calendar dates from the founding of the Iranian monarchy by Cyrus the Great in 559 B.C., the Islamic from the Prophet Mohammed's Hegira from Mecca to Medina...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Mecca--The Forbidden City, and Islam--The Prophet and the People. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Mecca--The Forbidden City, and Islam--The Prophet and the People. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
...they deal more with small businesses and entrepreneurs: Mom and Pop diners, souvenir shops, camping guides, local gas stations. Foreign spending can be a bonanza. Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, a rococo relic of past prestige, came back from the brink of bankruptcy by becoming a mecca for overseas tourists who still associate it with glamour and bathing beauties. Tony Alonzo, a Cuban refugee who opened a small store in Miami in 1965, has built a million-dollar business by supplying Latin visitors with products that either cost them much more at home or are not available...