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...black Mercedes, always accompanied by a cheerleader who helped with the applause. She was usually clad in a blue sari (her party color), and spoke from platforms adorned with a picture of her husband, the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Though she no longer wept in public when recalling her husband, Madame was still campaigning in his memory, promising to follow his policies, which "stood for the middle path in politics." She argued that "the cooperation of the Marxists is essential for the progress of socialism...
...idea holds some promise, except that Director Sinatra and his scriptwriters goof away tension at every turn. A truce seems inevitable, since both camps are rent by internal strife and riddled with clichés. While Kuroki contends with a trigger-happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra...
...similar character should have been extended to the remainder of the population. Third, trade between the industrial North and the agrarian. South should have been continued, since only Vietnam as a whole constituted a viable economic unit. Politically, the government should have been representative of the overwhelmingly Buddhist and peasant population. Existing parties and religious sections should have been given a part in a coalition government...
...save South Viet Nam: send American aid to North Viet Nam instead of South Viet Nam. Soon coups, Buddhist suicides, riots will occur in North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam will be saved...
Triumphant, the Buddhists called off their demonstration, and five monks who had been "fasting to the death" celebrated by spooning down bowls of chao, a thin rice soup. Reportedly, Khanh claimed to have reached an agreement with the Buddhists under which they promised to withdraw from politics for two years and send three leading monks, including Thich Tri Quang, abroad for a while. A Buddhist spokesman promptly disclaimed any agreement. Buddhist Leader Tri Quang, now quite possibly the most powerful South Vietnamese, rejected Khanh in an interview...