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...least made a start. Since he accepted the premiership in the waning days of General Khanh's regime, Quat has moved with agility and a refreshing absence of dogmatism to ease tensions among South Viet Nam's neurotically suspicious interest groups. To be sure, the Buddhist-Catholic split still gapes awesomely, the warlords of the Armed Forces Council still intrigue among themselves, and South Viet Nam's 40 political parties are constantly quarreling...
When it is a complex "even" like the crackdown on the Buddhist pagodas the reporter's job gets even more difficult. The problem is not only the physical one of finding out the raw facts or the intellectual one of understanding what they mean. A journalist must decide whether publishing will endanger his informant, whether it will dry up other sources, whether the chance of being overshadowed by other stories will make the risk too high. And have to be done with minimal sleep, under marital law, and facing a deadline...
...particularly bedevils a Times man, since he is usually the most influential man on the spot. Tshombe grants an interview. Halberstam writes a favorable piece about Tshombe; the State Department thinks it is owed a favorable piece about Adoula. Everyone is conscious of the newspaper's power: even the Buddhist priests learned to call in newsmen to ward off arrests...
Theoretically tolerant, Buddhist bonzes make immense mischief when they meddle in politics (TIME cover, Dec. 11). Troublesome Islamic minorities chafe in China, Thailand, the Philippines, as well as India. A leading Bombay Moslem complains: "Hindu customers never allow me in their offices at lunchtime because they feel my presence would pollute their food. How can we ever live as brothers?" Hindus return hate for hate. Nehru himself once remarked that Hindu communalism was "the Indian version of fascism." Social, let alone sexual intercourse between young people of the two religions has been known to lead to murder...
Antagonized Monks. Madame's magic was not sufficient last week to over come 41 years of misrule, corruption and wholesale nationalization that has crippled Ceylon's once-flourishing economy based on tea, rubber and coconut. She had also antagonized the numerous and influential Buddhist monks, whose saffron-robed leaders were conspicuous on Senanayake's election platforms...