The World - News from Feb. 2, 1989
Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its quota policy for the annual hajj pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest shrines. After rioting in Mecca during the 1987 pilgrimage in which 402 people--including 275 Iranians--died, the kingdom declared that only one person out of every 1,000 in Muslim countries would be allowed to make the trip.
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