Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thick Tri Quang is emerging as South Viet Nam's top Buddhist leader...
...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...
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...