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Show I The Paper That Dares To Take Page 10 The Utah Independent June 17, 1976 PEAKING POWER STRUGGLE PEKINGS READERS OUTLOOK Continued from page 2 scurrilous sheet advocating the Utah State Board of Health burning of U.S. cities, now a To whom it may concern: teacher at one of our major universities. Being entertained at theWhite House by our chief executive, a draft dodging pugilist that had expressed a desire to expectorate It seems reasonable to me that when so much effort is put into the proposal to fluoridate our water supply, when the voice of the people have spoken so strongly against it, a hidden motivation may exist. Usually such hidden factors involve money. By this I do not infer any member of the Board has this motive, but someone may on the Statue of Liberty. Red Carpet treatment for the Glamorous Golda, erstwhile leader of the country that wantonly attacked the USS Liberty and the Cyclopean Butcher of Deir Yassin proflt financially if fluoridation is but no White House protocol for a(j0pte(j jn every community, author the Although you may be legally Solzhenitsyn. correct in your proposal it is my Promised U.S. aid to terror fjrm opinion that you have reached groups to massacre the White element in Rhodesia on the specious excuse that it is oppressive -to the Blacks but strict control of successfuly dtmand that white any expatriate Cubans who would sugar off the like to liberate their homeland just iKmK u causs ,00th decay ninety miles off the Honda coast. since fami d usi it Whtle the ecologists and en- we have had no over vironmentalists bemoan pollution, Med fm a dentist and my ,6 a treatise to preserve our most old son has never had a cavity. Wilmot Even precious possession, families other though many Robertsons Dispossessed Ma- have had similar benefit from disjority" is given the silent treatment. continuance of white sugar, you Yours, know that such a requirement would infringe on others rights. Irving V. Tennant It therefore follows that to re86401 AZ Kingman, quire me to drink fluoridated P.S. In the news reports anent Mr. water just because some experts extracurricular Wayne Hays is say it not harmful is a violation of researches in anatomy (at the my rights, because I choose to taxpayers expense) it was men- believe the other experts" who tioned that a thoroughfare in his disagree with this finding. home town had been named in his Fluoride is a poison, but these honor. I wonder if it is the local experts" say that it is such a small Lovers Lane? amount when compared with the A VIEWPOINT ON FLUORIDE size of our bodies it is not a danger. But what is the volume ratio between that small amount and the Dear Editor: sperm of a father, or the body of an Have these I thought you might be unborn child? interested in another viewpoint on experts" evaluated this possibility the new fluoride issue which has over several generations to make' just been raised again by the State sure there is no danger? I think not. Neither is there a correlation Board of Health. I have written a letter to the Board and have en- between fluoridation and Chlorination was closed a copy of it. Normally chlorination. citizens write letters to the editor instituted to prevent contaminated in hope that it will be published, water from causing disease, not as then hope that the person or a medicine to prevent disease from organization under discussion will other sources. And it is interesting become aware of the letter. I have to note that other experts" are chosen to do it differently, writing beginning to detect evidence that to the organization, then sending a chlorine may be doing more harm copy to the newspaper. A friend than good! A member of your Board, Dr. suggested sending a copy to each publication in the Salt Lake area, Olsen, suggested a similarity between the fluoridation issue and which I am doing. Sincerely, the restricted smoking issue. William Wangeman Tooth decay is not communicable, SLC, Ut. 84105 but cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke anti-Commun- ist The very definitely is! I have never smoked in my life (long before I ever heard the Mormon position on smoking) and have suffered much discomfort, and even symptoms similar to influenza when exposed to large volumes of tobacco smoke. There are many fine restaurants I cannot patronize because of the increasing smoky conditions I find therein. It seems to me your department would spend far less taxpayer money by the doing job you are being paid to hard-earne- do: d communicable reducing disease. One way is to stop wasting time and taxpayer dollars on the fluoridation issue and get on with the job of enforcing the smoking restrictions in public places, thus caused-cance- r, vicariously reducing emphysema, and other diseases. This is the law of the land and is supported by the majority of the public, not by a random sample of public opinion. The random samples of public opinion are just that : Random samples. The laws of statistics pertaining to random samples do not apply to public opinion polls, statisticians opions to the contrary. They cannot be declared to represent the feelings of the majority, for another poll may produce the exact opposite result. I have seen many such polls in action with my own eyes, and those I have seen were anything but unbiased Those questioned were chosen very carefully, not randomly, but according to their so-call- appearance and in particular membership segment of society. I write this letter knowing ful) well that this issue will not die, even when defeated at the' polls, but will be brought back to life to afflict taxpayers once more and to waste more of our money, until at last those who are pushing this down our throats will win, and cause even more birth defects in our posterity. William Wangeman SLC, Ut. 84105 Dear Editor: Tax and tax, spend and that was spend, elect and elect Peter the robbing of to pay Paul the New Dealers introduced, and exploited. But now we have federal deficit spending, which amounts to payg'VauT and thVn"golng out and robbing Peter. J. Kesner Kahn Chicago, 111. 60649 for WILL Conventions Business Meetings Luncheons Dinners rate Town Guest Hongkong 8 Telephone iN (801)533-860- (800) 5 TELEX 453-462- 0 7 388-43- 5 Answer Back Newhouse S.L.C. 2140 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Phone (801)487-757- 9 He was rehabilitated a few an anti-Cho- u vice-chairm- an counter-revolutiona- - pjQj- CUBA AJt TME is vice-chairm- three South West Temple g years later, thanks to the late Chou-En-la- i, and came to combine for Maoists in resourceful one other and sycophantic person the posts e This first of party-statPremier Chou, to power. supreme deputy and army betrays a great weakness of the party Chairman's position both before chief of staff. As 1975 ended, Teng was and after his coming death. One might assume that if Mao regarded at least by were so universally loved and foreigners as the likeliest canemulated as represented over didate to succeed the ailing Chou, decades of propaganda by both historically the No. 2 man of countrymen and foreign friends a Chinese communism, Mao being Maoist heaven on earth could first. Chou finally lay dying both a follow his passing. physical and political death in hosIn Not so! spite of Maos pital isolation. sanctification there are obviously a It was typical of superficial Nixon-Forof number d relations with Peking unrepentant great capitalist roaders" in the Chinese that Teng was already on the skids, mainland circulation. One must as is apparent now, when he hosted suspect also that anything less than President Fords follow-u- p mission blind Maoism is automatically to China. Chou died in January. capitalistic" to the Chairman, his Two or three months of secret wife and associates. politicking ensued. It can be superlatively Also in January, Hua, not documented that Mao envisions an Teng, was named acting premier, ebb and flow of perpetual struggle and the Politburo pressures inamong his followers for a logn time creased. Teng finally was disto come a violent kind of heaven missed on April 7. There had been to which it seems his wife is equally demonstrations in Peking on the committed. preceding Saturday, Sunday and Mao, essentially a wordman, Monday, hotheadedly remindful has left more and moe of the prac- of Mao's cultural revolution. tical implementation of his own In a sense these were pro-- and En-L- ai dogmatic utterances to his most manifestations, sycophantic followers, deferring but Chou almost forever stood in more and more to Chiang Ching the shadow of Mao and he had no and his declining years. such popular following as the As a result, and against a Chairman. Still la'rge crowds are recent background of Peking said to have gathered on April 3 at protest demonstrations, wides- the Gate of Heavenly Peace while a pread arrests and a hovering relative few laid wreaths of tribute readiness to resort to the gunbarrel to the late Premier Chou. for ultimate political power, Quietly, the next day, Sunday, have Madame Mao seems to the Chou offerings were removed little rid of gotten finally doughty by parties unknown, but unas a challenge to doubtedly Maoists of the first Teng Hsiao-pin- g her own supremacy. chop. On Monday thousands of Twice now, in the Chairmans demonstrators gathered on the name, Chiang Ching has helped square to protest this affront. bring a halt to the career of the little Security forces intervened when a careerist, stripping Teng of party-stat- e number of protesters tried to force posts, thrusting him again their way into the Great Hall of the oblivion. into People. Somewhat less certainly it Against this combustible seems that she and Mao also dic- backdrop the Politburo was choice Hua tated the Politburo of convened two days later and voted Kuo-fen- g as the late Chou En-la- is unanimously to oust Teng from successor as premier of the state his offices and hold him rescouncil and also as first ponsible for the . Mondays of the Chinese Comincident. munist party. There is only faint shock in the Hua comes from Hunan, fact that Teng possibly voted Maos birthplace province, in- against himself in the showdo n dicating a background connection and likewise the quibble that only with the Chairman. Hua is in his the .National Peoples Congress 50's, about 30 years younger than had the constitutional power to Mao. hire Hua and fire Teng. In the late 1960's, with Maos The NPC is, at best, only the cultural revolution" churning face of an almost workless clock. Bountiful Harvest now makes a BOUNTIFUL HARVEST FOOD DEHYDRATORS Tsc-tun- in a dying struggle to prepare his wife, Chiang Ching, BETTER in Mao engaged MORE superior lood dehydrator convenient sizes Hsiao-pin- g secretary-genera- l. WE SERVE YOU Hotel Newhouse Main St Fourth South Salt Lake City, Utah 841 01, Stand China, the diminutive Teng had been singled out for defamation as a bourgeois powerholder taking the capitalist road" and frogmarched out of office as party By Golo Hsin AW and that Out Of apparent a Purging of Teng A $oiET union W AFRICA !l . RtGflKDlHG ry RHQDCSlft AND SOUTH AFRICA, Oh COURSC.. . D 15 |