Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mecca siege inspires reforms-and fears...
Given the contraction of the American economy, one wonders at what point one neglected leak will develop into a flood. Consider, for example, the implications of a coup in Saudi Arabia, the potential for which was starkly revealed in the take-over of the Great Mosque in Mecca--or in Egypt, where expectations of rapid economic development following on the heels of peace with Israel have been irresponsibly fueled by the leadership...
...recent take-over of the mosque in Mecca--now known to be a well-organized attempt by Moslem fundamentalists to overthrow the Saudi leadership and not the isolated work of Shiite fanatics--showed that instability in the region is more likely to stem from domestic political unrest them from foreign intervention...
...Washington for several years: local revolts, radicalism, tribal rivalries, religious extremism and instability bordering on anarchy. The oilfields of the Persian Gulf are in jeopardy not so much because of Soviet tanks in Afghanistan as because of local outbreaks like the dissident Arab invasion of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca and the Iranian militants' seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The biggest disaster that has befallen Western interests in the area in the past decade remains the collapse of the Shah?for which Moscow was not responsible. And the worst threat to Western interests in the near future...
...Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some of them ominous, of a possible fundamentalist Muslim revival. In November, for example, Muslim gangs demonstrated against Americans in Izmir and other cities after false radio reports that the U.S. had been behind the seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca...