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...could a nation that is geographically and culturally closer to Paris than to Mecca or Tehran come to such a pass? For years the government managed to contain the fundamentalists by building mosques and passing laws to placate them, then arresting leaders who became too powerful. But after political parties were legalized two years ago, the Islamic Salvation Front won an overwhelming majority in the June 1990 municipal elections, the first multiparty vote since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power...
...there is no turning back the clock. Too many tourists have found a friendly, affordable mecca in Branson; too many nationally known performers, & some of whose hits are behind them, have found appreciative audiences. "It is an honest-to-goodness boomtown," says Stafford. "There are other places where this could be happening, but it's not. The gold rush is here." Spoken like a true pioneer...
...York, though, is cabaret Mecca these days -- a ripe satisfaction for the creators, some of whom toiled five or six years to put on their show. Forever Plaid, a year old, has built a coterie of fans; President Bush's brother Jonathan has seen the show seven times and held his birthday party there. "It's no longer enough to go to the theater and just sit and stare," says Jonathan Scharer, producer of Pageant and Forbidden Broadway. "People have more fun when they can have a drink and relax, cool off and feel comfortable...
PRESERVATION HALL by William Carter (Norton; $29.95). From its beginnings on the site of an obscure French Quarter art gallery in the early 1960s, Preservation Hall became an internationally renowned Mecca for traditional New Orleans jazz. This lavishly illustrated volume chronicles the personalities and music behind one of the most stunning, and improbable, success stories in the history of American entertainment...
...chartered Dutch DC-8 ferrying 182 Indonesian pilgrims to Mecca crashed in Sri Lanka, resulting in their deaths...