Word: mena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's press watched as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helicoptered to the Pyramids on the edge of the desert and joined Photographer David Hume Kennerly to pose for the formal portrait that opens TIME's story. Close to 1,000 newsmen who were camped at the nearby Mena House Hotel to cover the peace talks watched our Man of the Year come and go. "After Sadat's journey to Jerusalem in November, our choice was all but inevitable," says World Editor John Elson, who oversaw the Man of the Year section...
There was one place where the strength of that momentum was beyond dispute: Cairo. There, Israeli and Egyptian delegates met at the historic Mena House hotel, shook hands, laughed and sat down to talk at a round table in the ornate Rubaiyat room. As is the case with so many events in the Middle East today, the participants hardly seemed able to believe where they were or what they were doing. Premier Begin joined in the euphoric mood. Before leaving for Washington, he had greeted an Israeli negotiator by telephone: "Shalom, shalom, how is the weather in Cairo? Sunny...
...time in ten months to use whatever influence he might have to bring the feuding Arabs together. One of Vance's main goals was to help prop up Sadat's plan for a pre-Geneva conference on the Middle East that is scheduled to begin at the Mena House hotel near Cairo this week. Originally, Sadat had envisioned the gathering as a meeting ground, where all interested parties would settle at least some of the procedural problems blocking a full-scale Geneva conference. But at week's end the probability was that the Cairo meeting would...
Remember Chris Papagianis, Felix Adedeji, Demetrio Mena, and Emmanuel Ekama? They're all former Harvard soccer greats. And now there is an American preppie making a strong bid to join this prestigious foreign cast, sophomore striker Lyman Bullard...
...Midfield position, a problem area last year, has suffered the most from graduation. Gone are dependable, three-year starter Emmanual Ekama, All-Ivy honorable mention Bahman Mossavar-Rahmani, and senior Demetrio Mena, who broke his ankle in August and has taken the term...