Word: messa
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...sole ruler of the Soviet Union. You should interview the entire group involved in our collective leadership." So wrote Nikita Khrushchev last week to Cairo's government-supported newspaper Al Messa. Then he obligingly returned answers to all the newspaper's questions, dutifully signed with 14 Presidium names headed by Khrushchev, Bulganin, Zhukov, Voroshilov and Mikoyan...
Nasser's gratitude to Russia did not extend universally to Egypt's proCommunists. Khaled Moheddine, once known as the "Red Major," who is publisher of the Communist-line newspaper Al Messa, survived as did two or three other Communist sympathizers. But about 25 others, including Kamel el Bindari, the "Red Pasha" who is rated the spiritual father of Egyptian Communism, were eliminated by the council and told to take down their election posters...
...Messa." In the nearby town of Varese lived the Rev. Giovanni Battista Schreider, a serious, bald, bespectacled Baptist minister. When he heard of the state of affairs at Caravate, he put in an urgent call for his friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant...
Next day a procession appeared in the square, led by small boys yelling, hooting and carrying placards bearing the words: "Abbasso la messa-andiamo da Messa (Down with Mass-let's go to Messa)." Elderly ladies on the fringe of the gaping crowd shook their heads sadly, murmured to one another: "All mad; there's no religion any more...
...Messa Matruh...