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...comment on your Aug. 15 article, which states that a famed New Orleans surgeon, Dr. Alton Ochsner, joined the ranks of those opposing fluoridation of public water supplies, I wish to take issue that "these ranks are filled mainly with crackpots." When countless numbers of reputable physicians, dentists and scientists also oppose the adding of a powerful poison (even in small concentration) to our drinking water, the name-calling by the promoters of this highly controversial plan would seem to be extremely out of order...
...Closer Together." For four weeks the twelve Russian farm officials have been touring U.S. farms and factories while a group of U.S. farmers toured the Soviet Union (TIME, Aug. 15). Now it was time for the Russians to go home...
...Date Fatidique and the days following the fateful date that brought thousands of Moslem terrorists out of the hills (TIME, Aug. 29), claimed the lives of 92 Frenchmen and at least 1,000 Moroccans. But that was only a beginning; last week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their...
With French backing, El Glaoui began peddling a petition demanding Sultan Ben Youssef's dethronement. On Aug. 20, 1953, El Glaoui's horsemen came racing down the hills and surrounded the capital of Rabat. Ben Youssef must go, said El Glaoui. The colons loudly agreed. The French government suspected the strength of this movement, but was too weak-willed to resist it. Approving the order for Ben Youssef's removal, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault solaced himself with the comment: "It was either the Cross or the Crescent...
Then came La Date Fatidique (Aug. 20), and the massacre of Oued Zem. Too late, the French government realized that Grandval had been right. The bloodshed he had tried to forestall now was a fact, and would be avenged. Only the faith Istiqlal leaders had in Grandval kept the violence in the hills from spreading to the big cities...