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...resources that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Three reporters, William F. Schmick, 38, John M. Hanchette, 37, and Carlton Sherwood, 32, were detached from regular duties for nine months to find out what had happened to money raised by the Pauline Fathers for a national shrine. The reporters traveled to 17 states and four foreign countries and ran up nearly $100,000 in expenses. They finally loosed an 18-part, 40,000-word series alleging that the order squandered a substantial portion of $20 million in charitable donations, loans, investments and bond proceeds. The series...
...more days and I'm off to my hometown of Stamford, Conn, for a week. That may not sound like much, but Stamford is a mere 20 minutes (door to door) from the sporting shrine called Bridgeport the Jai Alai fronton. I've been getting the programs mailed to me since the start of the winter season, and I've noticed my old friend Lopitegui is near the top of the singles list. My key bet is always the 1-2-4 quiniella box unless someone like Lopitegui or Goyo is in number five. Then...
Blessed with 18 seminaries, as well as a 1,100-year-old shrine, Qum, appropriately, is the Ayatullah Khomeini's home. Three days before being expelled from Iran, TIME Middle East Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst went to Qum for an exclusive interview with the Ayatullah. It was the first such interview Khomeini had granted to a U.S. magazine since the fall of the Shah. The interview is greatly revealing, first as to how implacable is Khomeini's hate for all things American, and second for how strikingly it shows the vast gulf that separates Islamic and Western perceptions...
...where a feudal monarchy rules a sparsely settled (estimated pop. between 4 million and 7 million) land containing 23.2% of the world's proven oil reserves. The ruling House of Saud was badly shaken by last month's attack on the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in Islam. It was originally reported that the attacking guerrillas were religious fundamentalists who were seeking the recognition of their leader as the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah. Saudi officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were indeed religious zealots, the majority were politically motivated guerrillas who were trying...
...rhetoric played a major part in the wave of Muslim fanaticism and anti-American violence that swept far beyond Iran. In Saudi Arabia, possessor of the world's greatest reserves of oil and American dollars, a band of extreme religious zealots seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in all Islam (see WORLD). In Pakistan, a mob enraged by radio reports claiming that the U.S. had inspired the attack on the Mecca mosque stormed and set fire to the U.S. embassy. They left the modernistic, 30-acre compound a gutted ruin. Two Americans were killed; 90 others were...