Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phan Huy Quat, whom they accuse of pro-Buddhist leanings. Cops fired into the air-and a bit lower-while the demonstrators burned an official...
...chips on Diem," Mecklin writes. "We were stuck with an all-or-nothing policy. It had to work, like a Catholic marriage or a parachute." But when the Buddhist crisis ignited in May 1963, the policy went up in flames. What began as a seemingly simple dispute over the display of religious flags soon became a cleverly conducted campaign to unseat Catholic Diem. U.S. reporters fanned the flames with pro-Buddhist stories that enraged Diem, who refused to believe that Washington did not control the press in the same...
...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...
...Road. But Quat has spent long, private hours with Buddhist leaders in an attempt to lower the octane of their disputes. Perhaps as a result, the Buddhists seem willing to give the government a chance: whereas immolation was once a favorite device for advertising Buddhist grievances, bonzes recently snatched away the matches of a gasoline-drenched Buddhist...
...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...