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...Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, had survived, but with lost face and a doubtful future. The U.S. would still be dealing with the Directory as it prepared to hold elections to give the country a civilian government. But Washington would have to pay increasing attention to Tri Quang, the infrangible Buddhist prelate who had emerged as the country's most astute and powerful politician (see THE WORLD...
...stench of cordite and the sour-sweet smell of tear gas?the incense of South Viet Nam's political crisis?was missing in Saigon last week for the first time in more than a month. The frail, elegant hands of the Buddhist bonze who had ignited the trouble gestured?and the mobs went home, the air cleared. The crisis itself had not ended, but its course had been changed and channeled, sometimes subtly, sometimes imperiously, by one of South Viet Nam's most extraordinary men. As a result of the power and discipline he displayed in last week's events...
Naturally, he inspires wildly conflicting responses. To some seasoned Saigon observers, he is by far "the most dangerous man in South Viet Nam." To a young American girl who works near him in Saigon's Buddhist Institute for the Propagation of the Faith, Vien Hoa Dao, he seems "affable, fallible and lovable." U.S. officials who must deal with him are both awed and appalled. Former U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor in exasperation once called him "the Makarios of Southeast Asia"?though he is far more retiring and ascetic than Makarios. One of his Buddhist rivals insists that...
...when the Directory fired his friend and ally in the north of South Viet Nam, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the I Corps. Tri Quang had been looking for a pretext to move, and he found it in the dismissal of Thi, who was popular enough among Buddhists and his soldiers to provide an opening wedge of discontent. In a welling tide of violence, in which cars were burned, windows broken and the police and army baited, the Buddhist mobs forced the government toward capitulation...
...this threat, Ky and the generals then invited nearly 200 representatives scattered across the Vietnamese political spectrum to a national political congress in Saigon. Its purpose: to discuss means by which a democratic process could be organized. Ky also hoped that the delegates would provide a counterweight to the Buddhists, a hope that seemed considerably encouraged when the Buddhists boycotted the meeting and only 117 delegates showed up. But to hedge his bet and avoid further violence in the streets, Ky also quietly began negotiating directly with the Buddhist leaders...