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...Blond Baboon by Janwillem van de Wetering (Houghton Mifflin; $7.95). The Dutch-born author, 47, who has sojourned in many exotic places and once lived in a Buddhist monastery in Japan, now inhabits Maine and writes cleaner English prose than many a Yankee aspirant. However, his stories are still set, with occasional departures (The Japanese Corpse), in Amsterdam, where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris...
...Name the first Buddhist monk to immolate himself in protest of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime...
...fishing the Lake Country for fish who don't live in shell craters. Even these vulgarities don't match the ones that flashed on our television screens every night for the better part of a decade--the Saigon police chief with his gun to the head of a suspect, Buddhist monks on fire in the streets of Hue, the little napalmed girl running in terror down a rural road. And so Paul Berlin, and one suspects O'Brien too, goes after Cacciato...
...students in the room looked puzzled. Ginsberg looked around in the silence, then looked at me and said, "Here, try this." And he began giving me instructions in classical Buddhist meditation...
Eugene Taylor--Braun Room at the Divinity School, 45 Francis Street at 2 p.m. "The Mechanics of Running"--Science Center D at 8 p.m. Buddhist Meditation and Discussion--Phillips Brooks House...