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...Nationalists denounced Moulay Arafa as a puppet and usurper. In the great mosque at Fez, the bearded priests of the Prophet issued a solemn edict: "In the name of Islam and the Moroccan people we demand the return of the legal sovereign, Ben Youssef." Istiqlal's moderate leaders, most of them French-educated businessmen with little stomach for violence, pleaded with their followers to avoid bloodshed, and petitioned the French for reforms...
...Moslems throughout North Africa, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the French puppet Sultan, is a false prophet and usurper. Last month the Moroccans served notice that La Date Fatidique would be a day of prayer and demonstrations for Moulay Arafa's removal and Ben Youssef's return. Terrorist tracts, bearing the black crescent sign of the Arab underground, quickly made plain what this might mean. In the sacred name of Allah, the tracts urged all Moroccans to "avenge our dead heroes cut down by Imperialist French bullets...
...Dwight Eisenhower." Blurted a reporter: "In that order?" Replied Bender: "Yes." At his press conference next day. President Eisenhower gave the reporters another inkling of his problem. "What I intended to imply [to the Ohioans] he said, "[is] that if I now were such an infallible prophet that I could understand all about the world situation, the domestic situation and my own situation, including the way I felt, and possibly with the health and everything else, as of that moment, then there would be no great excuse for deferring the decision. "I have not that gift of prophecy." Last week...
Harvard Economist Sumner Slich-ter, who has proved an accurate prophet in the postwar years, outlined what tax cuts could mean. Said he: "A $4,000-a-year man might well be living like a $5,000-a-year man. Or, putting it another way, it might enable people to live on a scale in 1956 or 1957 that they hadn't considered possible before 1960." Said Chairman Arthur Burns of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "A large-scale reduction or elimination of armaments would give us a magnificent and welcome opportunity for raising living standards...
...story that the ten lawgivers would be lifted from their pedestals on the building's roof and repaired. When Mohammed's name appeared among the rest, the ambassadors of Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan told the U.S. State Department, on behalf of their Moslem peoples, that the Prophet's image should not go up again...