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...combination of demographics and canny marketing explains Atlantic City's success in competing with Las Vegas. The Nevada gaming mecca, situated 300 miles from the population center of its major market, Southern California, has suffered badly from the recession as tourism has dwindled. Several casinos there, including the famed Aladdin and the Dunes, are reportedly for sale, as is the Riviera, a once popular showcase for Hollywood performers...
...past several weeks, the Ayatullah has been trying to stir up resentment against the government of Saudi Arabia by including fundamentalist Shi'ite zealots among the Muslims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Speaking for many gulf Arabs, Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa says: "The continual upheaval in Iran is a great danger. But subversion is the greatest threat of all. I have no doubt that the U.S. appreciates the scope of this threat...
Situated 145 miles west of New York City in the picturesque Pennsylvania Dutch farm country, Reading has become something of a mecca for cost-conscious buyers. The city, which proclaims itself "the Factory Outlet Capital of the U.S.A.," has grown from no more than four outlets in 1973 to about 100 bargain shops, including those offering merchandise by Evan-Picone, Adidas and Danskin. Total factory-outlet sales in Reading last year are estimated at $80 million...
...tracts. Their message: "reactionary" regimes like Saudi Arabia are hand-in-glove with the enemies of Islam, and Muslims everywhere must unite and overthrow their "lackey governments." As a security measure, the Saudis are banning Iranian pilgrims from visiting Shi'ites in the east on their way to Mecca. Khomeini's strategy is to pack the ranks of pilgrims with Muslim zealots, known as Hezbollahis (members of God's party), as he attempts to stir up trouble in Saudi Arabia...
Khomeini has appointed Khoeyniha to direct Iran's mass hadj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, one of Islam's holiest rituals. His instructions: to foment agitation among the 2 million or so Muslims who will be flocking to Mecca in September. Khoeyniha will thus be Khomeini's agent to help promote the religious insurrection that the Ayatullah has vowed he will bring to Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich gulf states. TIME has learned that Khomeini told Khoeyniha not to be intimidated by the more moderate clergymen among the estimated 100,000 Iranian pilgrims. "Disobedience to you," asserted...