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...time she packed up for the final time last week and flew back to Moscow, Katerina Lycheva, 11, was so gorged on Americana that even a child of capitalism might have had a tummyache. On her fifth and final stop in Los Angeles, Katya made forays to Disneyland and Universal Studios, where , respectively she collected the standard Mouseketeer ears and mugged for the camera in the huge paw and maw of King Kong. At one point Katya seemed to have gone Hollywood, donning a pair of sunglasses and telling students, "I want to be a film director." In fact...
...beneficial choice of location in many ways, it will promote greater harmony among the various religious sects which have historically squabbled over this amalgamation of sand and holy structures. As I envision it, the new Holy Disneyland could be comprised of three sectors connected by an elaborate monorail system: Christian-, Muslim and Jewish-Worlds...
Branching out from the park's center in Jerusalem, Christian-World would feature both Bethlehem and Nazareth. In Bethlehem, one could imagine a hall of martyred saints along the same lines as Disneyland's current hall of dead U.S. Presidents. At the mere pull of a string, the vacationer could hear Joseph and Mary's arguments about possible infidelity and the three wise men debating what gift Emily Post would recommend for the birth of a savior...
...addition to promoting greater inter-religious harmony, the new Disneyland would provide badly needed jobs for an economically depressed area. Poor beggars like Muammar Khaddafy would no longer have to idle away their time in fruitless militarism. Instead, he could get a job dressing up as Donald Duck or running a concession stand selling snap-on Mickey ears for yamulkas...
...trip to the U.S.S.R. by Maine Schoolgirl Samantha Smith, who died last summer in a plane crash and has become a hero in the Soviet Union. Katya, who has acted in a young people's theater group back home in Moscow, plans to see the Statue of Liberty, Disneyland, NASA's Houston space center, and Ronald McDonald. Though she brought a gift for him, the more important Ronald is not scheduled...