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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategic matters also, U.S. analysts believe that Islam and the West have compatible goals. Basically, Islamic states are antiCommunist. Says a senior State Department official: "I think we share a common concern and can work together to develop a set of friendly relationships, which can lead to ultimate stability in the region." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the West can no longer afford to ignore or dismiss the living power of the Prophet's message...
...respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman. David was a herdsman. I, too, was commissioned for prophethood while I grazed...
...pilgrims throng Mecca, the men clad in two seamless white garments and sandals, the women in white head-to-toe covering. The pilgrims walk seven times around the Ka'ba, a cubical stone building covered by a gold-embroidered black canopy, in the exterior wall of which is set the Black Stone. The interior, now empty, once housed pagan idols, which Muhammad destroyed. The pilgrims also visit other holy sites, act out the search for water by Hagar, the mother of the Arab nation, perform a vigil on Mount 'Arafat (site of the Prophet's last sermon...
...leaders also confirmed some other matters that had been largely settled in Washington last month. A direct telephone hot line will be set up immediately between Cairo and Jerusalem, and after the El Arish meeting next month, air links will be established between the two countries...
...negotiators, who for at least the present will again include only Egypt, Israel and the U.S., must somehow devise a formula that the Palestinians, as well as the moderate Arabs, will recognize as real and not sham autonomy. One key issue is whether the self-governing councils to be set up for the West Bank and Gaza will have control over land and water. That would give the Arab residents the authority to curb Israeli settlements and the right to drill for water on public land, something that has been largely denied them since the Israeli occupation began...