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Pilgrims' Progress. Saud has also tried to ease the lot of Islam's pilgrims. Every year 200,000 of them make the long trek to Mecca to kiss the Sacred Black Stone and walk the ritual seven times around the Kaaba. Once thousands died of sunstroke or disease, and local Arabs fleeced them of their last pennies. Saud established first-aid stations, erected sun shelters, built a $3,000,000 quarantine station at Jiddah, allocated $132 million to refurbish the Great Mosque, straighten Mecca's streets, expand its accommodations. The pilgrim's head tax (among...
Eastbourne (pop. 58,000), where geraniums hang from lampposts, is Britain's most genteel seaside resort and a mecca for wealthy widows who await death in its pleasant Victorian surroundings. For years the teacups buzzed with talk of a local doctor with a large, loyal practice, who doted on his aged patients. He met them at the station after their visits to London, took them for drives in the country, rushed to the bedside at any hour with soothing words...
Africa, Iran and Iraq. Some of these recruits to slavery are captured or kidnaped in their native villages; others are lured to Mecca on alleged pilgrimages, then sold in the slave market of the Holy City. Most have to be ferried into Arabia across the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. If the British Navy, under the proposed "piracy" clause, resumed its vigorous, pre-World War I slave patrol in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, this lucrative traffic would be severely hampered...
...over the U.S. have come to teach at the center, do research work there, attend forums and legal clinics. In its chosen fields-tax law, oil and gas law, international law, insurance law, administrative law-the center has provided a staff of experts that has made it a legal mecca not only for the Southwest and the U.S. in general, but for big slices of Latin America, the Far and Middle East and Europe. Among the center's other accomplishments...
There remains a third circle−a circle which stretches across continents and oceans and which is the domain of our brothers in faith who all, wherever under the sun they may be, turn as we do in the direction of Mecca and whose devout lips speak the same prayers...