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Early last month Hamid and Rusi arrived at Jidda, 40 miles west of Mecca, and promptly went to work. Wangling seats aboard the same Mecca-bound bus as a planeload of 21 Russian "pilgrims" (TIME, Aug. 16). Hamid and Rusi claimed to be Turks, and engaged the Russians in some probing conversation. In Mecca they began distributing thousands of leaflets they had prepared, followed through with dogged and dedicated heckling...
...alcoholic beverages may be imported, not even beer and wine. Even the foreign embassies in Jidda are forbidden shipments of liquor...
...words ,"club," "bridge" and "dance" are forbidden, although these social activities are carried on under other names. Mixed swimming parties on the Jidda beaches are forbidden...
...they got past a guarded barrier ten miles out of Mecca, no one knew, but once inside the holy city, they escaped detection for a while in the dense throngs of pilgrims. When they tried to find their way out to Jidda, they were overheard speaking English, and Saudi soldiers pounced. The trespassers were taken to Jidda and thrown into a fly-infested jail. There they still languished last week. They had been fined about $1,200 each and sentenced to six months...
This year, for the second time in his life, Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Dressed in a ceremonial robe of unstitched white cloth, the earnest, personable chief of Egypt's military junta left Cairo by air with an entourage of 75. In Jidda, the Arabian seaport by which most pilgrims enter, the Naguib party was met by Crown Prince Saud and eleven emirs, all sons of ancient, wily King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...