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...Saigon street. Later the martyr's scorched remains were assigned to final cremation in a rice field outside the capital. But, as the priests told it, when the old man's ashes were removed from the oven, his heart emerged miraculously undestroyed-obviously the supernatural work of Buddha. Immediately, his fellow monks proclaimed Quang Due a saint...
...into his flat in Wimpole Mews. "It was a sort of brother-and-sister relationship," said Christine, "nothing else." A feature of Ward's apartment was a one-way mirror permitting observation of the bedroom from the living room; this elaborate peephole was covered by a picture of Buddha when not in use. "That was installed by an old eccentric who used to own this place," Ward said. "I'm going to have it filled in." An elaborate practical joker, Ward often put a dog collar around Christine's neck and led her around London...
...unaffected by pain. Quang Due's premeditated act was a demonstration of Buddhist determination to force South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem to knuckle under to demands for increased religious freedom (TIME, June 14). In a will written "before closing my eyes to Buddha," Quang Due said: "I have the honor of presenting my words to President Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce a policy of religious equality...
...happens to be the see of Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc. Though Catholics were allowed to fly Vatican flags at a church celebration honoring Archbishop Thuc, three days later the government forbade the Buddhists to unfurl their religious flags for the 2,507th birthday of Gautama Buddha. When the Buddhists staged a protest march against the edict, government armored cars fired over the heads of the rioters. In the melee, nine people were killed. The Buddhists blamed the slaughter on Diem's troops; the government blamed the killings on Communist agitators...
Just as rain threatened to wash away the new road, the 16-ton head was removed by trailer and then shipped on loan to Houston. This week it arrived-a superb, Buddha-like sculpture nine feet high, whose meaning to the Olmec civilization is lost to history...