Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better to have a political vacuum than have Huong in power," said one of South Viet Nam's most respected Buddhist leaders. "This government will have to go." At week's end Provisional Premier Tran Van Huong had not yet gone, but the bonzes were once again doing their beatific best to bring about a vacuum that sooner or later the Communists might fill...
...Well, the Buddhists vaguely ex plained, Huong's government, which is made up mostly of nonpolitical civil servants, is "not revolutionary" and contains "vestiges of the Diem regime." Saigon's draft-exempt students and microscopic "political parties," with the Buddhists' tacit approval, began holding meetings and demanded a government reshuffle. Huong refused, explaining: "They all want my job. If I had satisfied all their demands, my Cabinet would have numbered over a hundred." Then he Buddhists' appealed political to the bureau, head Thich of the Tarn Chau, and reported, "It was like talking to a deaf...
...least for the moment. He pronounced some of the arrested rioters draft dodgers and inducted them into the army, slapped the capital under martial law and named burly General Pham Van Dong ("the Tiger of the Delta") military governor of Saigon. Dong threw two battalions of troops around the Buddhist Center. Taking to,,, radio, Huong blamed the disorders on "irresponsible people who have either innocently or deliberately fallen in with the Communist plan...
From his two-telephone desk in the Buddhist temple, which has the bustling air of a campaign headquarters, wispy Tam Chau complained that the Buddhists had been slandered. He added that to fight the Reds, the country must have "a government supported by the people"-an argument that might carry more weight if the Buddhists ever adopted an active role against the Viet Cong. He also announced a passive-resistance campaign against the government. But a lot of Vietnamese were apparently tiring of Buddhist intrigue...
Delicate Inquiries. Suddenly Saigon's press blossomed with warnings that "in critical times religion cannot let the military and the politicians have a free hand in national affairs," and from the main pagoda in HuÉ, Buddhist priests began warning their followers that Buddhism faced "new threats," called on loyal Buddhists to defend the faith "against its enemies." Apart from the pressure on Huong to reshuffle his Cabinet to include direct Buddhist representation, other political factions were raising their voices. Disregarding a warning by Huong against public demonstrations, a noisy rally of the National Student Union concluded with...