Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most fretful country is Saudi Arabia, the largest OPEC producer. Saudi leaders suspect that Khomeini was behind the seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca last year, as well as subsequent disturbances among Shi'ites in their oil-rich Eastern province. In defense of their oil, the Saudi government last week put in a quick but urgent request for new military hardware from the U.S. Washington sent four highly sophisticated surveillance aircraft, which are known as AWACS and carry radar equipment sensitive enough to detect both high-and low-level bombers more than 230 miles away...
...Cambridge a lot of things have changed. His timeline of important dates in Cambridge's history is evidence enough. But one thing hasn't changed--for a relatively small city, Cambridge has an unusually strong record of producing important people, inventions and ideas. Always an intellectual and ethnic mecca, Cambridge has brought the United States everything from the porterhouse steak (served in the 19th century at Porter's Tavern) to the sewing machine to frozen yogurt. Eliot has compiled an unofficial list of "Cambridge firsts...
...sinks deeper and deeper into chaos. To the west, what is widely seen as Israel's intransigence emboldens radicals, undercuts moderates and enrages almost everyone in the Arab world. To the south, the memory of last year's attack by zealous dissidents on the Sacred Mosque in Mecca still sends shudders through the House of Saud and the monarchies that rule the gulfs ministates. In the waters of the gulf itself, a Soviet guided-missile cruiser and its frigate escort have replaced the Shah's navy in patrolling the shipping channel through the 40-mile-wide Strait...
...Jihad for Jerusalem" [Aug. 25]: Islam has Mecca and Medina; Christianity has Rome and Istanbul. Why is it such an injustice for the Jewish people to declare Jerusalem, which has been their religious center for more than 3,000 years, their capital...
...Vrindaban, Swami Bhaktipada, plans to add a vegetarian restaurant and museum next year, and a ten-acre formal garden in 1982. Eventually, there are supposed to be seven temples. But Sergeant Thomas Westfall of the county sheriffs department doubts it will ever be, so to speak, a tourists' mecca. "There's just no way that tour groups are going to include that place out there. The roads are terrible...