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What emerged was a typically Vietnamese solution: complex, murky and bafflingly illogical. Ky and the Buddhists reached a secret accord in which the Directory bowed to the bonzes' demands. Then, to everyone's surprise, the supposedly anti-Buddhist congress adopted as its own program the Buddhist demands that Ky had already accepted in private. Thus, Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu and Ky appeared before the congress to decree themselves, in effect, a caretaker government. Clearly not happy about it, Ky warned that "I will fight any government that will not secure the people's happiness and fight Communism...
...pagoda in Hué to train for monkhood. Wild and fond of practical jokes at first, he was expelled, then given a second chance. He matured into a student with a photographic memory and a searching intellect. His teacher at Bao Quoc, Thich Tri Do, who now heads the tame Buddhist church of North Viet Nam, guided the impressionable novice into the winds of nation alism sweeping the then French colony...
...lived in a cramped cell in Hué's Tu Dam pagoda, rising with the "first sun on a man's hand," spending a third of his waking day in prayer, a third in activity, a third in contemplation of his mistakes. Twice he served as president of the Hué Buddhist Association, his stints interrupted by a total absence from public view from 1959 to 1961. His life has been filled with such disappearances, but then, even his appearances are deceiving...
...Hué, all during the Diem years, Tri Quang was building up a Buddhist movement modeled after the Communist organizations that he had seen Ho employ against the French. To combat Diem's police, he organized special teams of young monks with flit guns filled with vinegar and red pepper. He had spies tucked neatly inside every fold of the Diem administration. He penetrated the regime's elite Cong Hoa youth, often got possession of top secret documents within 24 hours after they had been issued. One such paper was by Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu: Communiqu?...
...Quang's conspiracy against Diem finally flowered in blood in the spring of 1963. When the government refused to let the Buddhists in Hué fly the Buddhist flag on Gautama's birthday, Tri Quang led a demonstration to the radio station. He delivered a spellbinding speech, the crowds surged toward the station and Diem's troops replied with grenades?giving Tri Quang both the martyrs and momentum he needed. Soon Buddhists were immolating themselves on street corners, the protesting crowds grew in number and violence, and on Nov. 1, Diem and Nhu were overthrown and shot in the rear...