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...Assembly. Since many of its members will come from hamlets and villages rather than the big cities, the Lower House will, for the first time, give the people of the countryside a voice in the Saigon government. The new House is also expected to reflect the country's Buddhist majority, thus offsetting the heavy Catholic representation in the 60-man Senate, which was formally sworn into office this week...
...political Buddhists were on the march again in South Viet Nam. Snaking in a two-mile procession through Saigon, militant Thich Tri Quang and some 700 saffron-and-grey-robed monks and nuns, their little paper fans fluttering like butterflies in the noonday sun, trekked to the Presidential Palace. It was Tri Quang's first head-on attack on the South Vietnamese government since Premier Nguyen Cao Ky put down the Buddhist insurrection in Danang and Hué in the spring of 1966. Tri Quang lost that round, and this time his chances seemed even slimmer. Then...
...unusual confrontation, President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu, flanked by Ky and their aides, decided to come out of the palace and meet the monk. Loudspeakers broadcast a curbside debate between Thieu and Tri Quang to several thousand Vietnamese who gathered to watch, smiling and drinking soda pop. The militant Buddhists were angry because Thieu had approved Moderate Buddhist Thich Tarn Chan as the official spokesman for Viet Nam's United Buddhist Church, a loose association to which most of the nation's Buddhist sects belong. It is a position of influence that Tri Quang coveted for himself...
Vitamins for the Vigil. Thieu was measured and conciliatory in his reply, offering to bring Tarn Chau and Tri Quang together to mediate what the government regarded as an internal Buddhist quarrel. But Tri Quang refused to meet with Tarn Chau under any conditions created by the government. Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet...
...marriage not of convenience but of love. As a young officer he had been attracted by a snapshot carried by a colleague of a pretty Delta girl; he sought her out, fell in love, and in 1951 married her. Nguyen Thi Mai Anh was a Catholic, Thieu a Confucian Buddhist, but for her he promised to convert to Catholicism. He finally did in 1958-just in time, his detractors say, to help his army career under the Catholic Diems...