Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then he slowly signed three copies of the document, handwritten by official scribes and stamped with the royal seal. As he did so, a 21 -gun salute sounded outside, planes of the Royal Thai Air Force dropped flowers, rice and popcorn, and the gongs and drums of dozens of Buddhist temples reverberated across Bangkok...
...grave at Ap Dong Gi, more than 100 victims were found, all buried alive, all standing, with only the hands and arms of some extending vainly above the ground. ¶ As he clung to safety inside a pagoda, a Buddhist monk heard screams and pleas for mercy as shots rang out nightly during the first two weeks of February. Later, the bodies of 67 victims, including Nguyen Ngoc Ky, leader of the Viet Nam Nationalist Party, were found in 13 nearby graves...
...their National Liberation Front: the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces of Viet Nam. Since the South Vietnamese constitution bans Communist political parties, the Alliance is a showcase of socialist, pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly...
...foreign speaking). Of 66 respondents, 62 had no objection, 2 had qualified objections ("If birth control is handled properly") and 2 had religious objections. The sample was 38 per cent Catholic, 42 per cent Protestant and 20 per cent other (7 Jewish, 4 unaffiliated, 1 Greek Orthodox and 1 Buddhist). Assuming the ten refusals to be negative, the ratio is still over five to one with no objections...
...record. He impressed Penn officials by mentioning in his application his deep love of sailing, which, he rhapsodized, occupies his attention "from the first wakening sail in early April to the last frostbite stint in late October." Columbia passed over applicants with stronger academic credentials to accept a practicing Buddhist from up state New York, a New Jersey student who arranged music for an off-Broad way show and a Long Island youth who accompanied his application with photographs of his sculpture. It also agreed to accept Vladimir Gulevich, 20, of Paterson, N.J., who graduated from his local high school...