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Thick Tri Quang is emerging as South Viet Nam's top Buddhist leader...
...bold bid to strengthen the national government and with the near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some of the I Corps officers and men in Danang began agitating for Thi's return to command, Ky was confident that Tri Quang...
...nation fighting for its very life, the rioting that pockmarked South Viet Nam last week seemed a senseless and dangerous self-indulgence. Night after night, motley mobs-students and street urchins, town toughs and saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Boy Scouts and Communist agitators-surged through the streets of Saigon. In battles with police and Vietnamese troopers, they answered tear gas with stones, staves and homemade spears, occasionally even a hand grenade. In South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their...
...nation that has been too long at war, too often faced with problems that seemed insoluble. This crisis was made in Viet Nam by the Vietnamese, and Americans could only watch despairingly as the tragedy progressed. Through it all ran the baleful influence of Viet Nam's powerful Buddhists, who have helped to topple four previous governments. This time, however, they were up against not only Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, but a whole Directory of tough and determined generals who did not mean to bend easily before the demands of Buddhist monks, particularly when many of the monks openly...
Initially, the Buddhist-inspired demonstrations in the I Corps area and Saigon were mild and orderly. But the unrest spread steadily, drawing up the civil servants, the military, laborers-all disaffected by South Viet Nam's galloping inflation and wartime insecurity, by wild rumors and even by the growing American presence in Viet Nam. At first Ky kept hands off so as "not to provide any martyrs" among the demonstrators, but the unrest gauge rose from troublesome to serious to grave. Two weeks ago, feeling its credibility as a government at stake, Saigon broke up a demonstration with tear...