Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...bonzes to hit the streets at the head of supposedly incensed faithful. Nuns "fainted" before newsreel cameras-only to spring nimbly away before tear gas. Old women provided buckets of water in which monks dipped their skirts to wash out their eyes. A monk supposedly "stabbed" himself at a Buddhist school, but when carried out showed no visible wound...
...Bandaranaike, who stayed on as caretaker chief of the government, denounced the defection as a "stab in the back." De Silva explained that he felt she "was going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks...