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...whose local office is presided over by Eldridge Cleaver. There is even a representative for a group known as the Movement for the Autodetermination and Independence of the Canary Islands, which have belonged to Spain since the 15th century. "Catholics go to Rome," remarked an Algerian official, "Moslems to Mecca, and revolutionaries come to Algiers...
Councillor Edward A. Crane urged the Council to vote "cautiously" on the issue and said, "There is danger that we might create a mecca for drug addicts in this city...
...Headplay is partially the story of Jerry, a hitchhiker who packs his guitar, leaves his family and girl ("But I thought when somebody sells their stereo and uses the other person's that . . .") and sets out for the Mecca of California. By the time he gets there though, it's over. "The Movement's dead, kid." He hangs around for a while to make sure, but after his guitar gets ripped off and he is beaten up he gets the message and takes the bus home...
...Sharm el Sheikh the beginnings of another tourist mecca are already in place. For $14 a night one can get an air-conditioned room in an 80-bed motel, watch movies and go scuba diving. Already along another road to Sharm el Sheikh through the Mitla Pass, holidaymakers from Tel Aviv can take a five-day "See the Sinai Battlefields" tour for $98.60. Egged, Israels' biggest bus line, is now planning a 300-bed motel in Sinai at a cost of $500,000. "Why not?" asks an Egged spokesman. "The government has agreed to a 49-year lease...
HENRY JAMES, the celebrated literary expatriate of the 19th century, once described America as "a great unendowed, unfurnished, unentertained and unentertaining continent." Paris in the 1920s was mecca for a whole gallery of artistic emigres whom Gertrude Stein labeled the Lost Generation; Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound and Cummings led a luminous lot. Now there is a new kind of American expatriate abroad in the world, drawn from the whole spectrum of U.S. society. Collectively, they lack the glamour of their famous predecessors, and their personal motives are different: the expatriates of the 1920s left America looking for art and excitement, while...