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...says, "because she is not trying simply to draw up a catalogue of ruins; she is trying to restore them to their original condition." Modern Peru has much to learn from the early natives, says Valcarcel. "The Incas had a deep sense of their dependence on their Mama-Pacha, Mother Earth. They managed it so well all over the empire that Conqueror Hernando de Soto was moved to say: 'There was never hunger known in their realm.' " -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Gavin Scott/Patallacta
Married. Hassan Nachaat Pacha, 55, sporting Egyptian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attended by King-in-exile Zog of Albania; and Patricia Mary Pansy Priest, 23, British nursery-schoolmistress; he for the second time; in London. The bride became a Moslem last February; to wed her, Dr. Nachaat Pacha proffered his resignation as Ambassador, because under Egyptian law no diplomat may marry a foreigner...
Ages & ages ago, the Snow God "Kun" destroyed all life on earth, and only the ill-tempered "supaya" (devils) lived to roam the highlands of Bolivia. The" Pacha-Camaj" (Gods of Fertility) then sent down their own sons, the "Paka-Jakes" (Eagle Men), to create a new race of their beloved Aymara people, all of whom had been snowed under by Kun. The Paka-Jakes settled on the land around holy Lake Titicaca, recreated the Aymaras, and named the province Pacajes after themselves...
...London's first mosque, planned as a place of worship for the Moslem soldiers & sailors in England and as the "nucleus of a great mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built after the war," was opened by Hassan Nachat Pacha, Egyptian Ambassador to Britain...
...Tewfik Pacha, the Turkish minister to this country, arrived in New York yesterday from Constantinople...