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...Secretary of State stopped first in Saudi Arabia to find out how much pressure the Saudis were willing to exert on Syria. It is the holy month of Ramadan, and Shultz had to wait in Jidda while King Fahd spent the day at prayer in Mecca. The two finally met after midnight. In the course of the talks, which went on until 2:30 a.m., Saudi officials made it clear that they were not going to lean on Assad; they felt that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement favored Jerusalem...
...grocery stores to clothing and pet emporiums to dental and legal clinics. Gradually it has become the fashion for mobile suburban youths to hang out in the malls, perhaps much the same way their fathers lounged around the old corner drug store. And the biggest attraction of each modern mecca is the mall arcade, where a kid can lose himself for hours in the sense-numbing, noisy darkness, as long as his quarters hold...
...contemporaries felt the same awe and wonder. In Washington's last years, Mount Vernon became a mecca for the great and the grateful, for the curious and the ambitious. So many people arrived at the doorstep that Washington, who would turn none away, finally engaged a social secretary to handle the flow. Sometimes he did not attend the dinners he gave because the company was so numerous and foreign to him. One night when he dined alone with Mrs. Washington, the event was so unusual he made a note of it in his diary...
...freeway exit past Disneyland, and on the same tourist-mecca level as the Hollywood Wax Museum and Knott's Berry Farm, lies "Religionland." Or so detractors of Television Evangelist Robert Schuller, 56, have dubbed his $18 million headquarters. 'For the past two years, the "Crystal Cathedral" has been offering such secular, profit-making fare as weight-reduction classes and counseling programs, plus concerts by Lawrence Welk and Victor Borge. State tax authorities would now like to pass their collection plate. "They even had a Ticketron there," says a local tax investigator. "The first time...
...sparkle they do, with nine fully lit artificial Christmas trees, rooms wallpapered with tin foil, hanging Styrofoam candy canes, and 15 varieties of ball ornaments. With gift-shop incense, and tintinnabulating carols on the stereo, and snow painted on all the windows, the Locks have created a mecca that is more than a mere gift shop; it is the ultimate expression of the American Christmas spirit...