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...seldom goes out. People come to him in a steady stream with reports, requests, gossip, rumors, intelligence. Clearly reveling in his game of political chess, he dispatches a Buddhist plenipotentiary to the resort city of Dalat, sends one of his attendant courier-monks with a message to the Vien Hoa Dao. Thich Tam Chau, secretary-general of the institute and nominally the senior monk in Viet Nam, comes by for lunch. Tam Chau, 44, once considered Tri Quang's rival, likes such creature comforts as his chauffeured Mercedes sedan. Tri Quang twits him about it, himself takes pedicabs about town...
...Buddhist monks, Boy Scouts and Communist agitators-surged through the streets of Saigon. In battles with police and Vietnamese troopers, they answered tear gas with stones, staves and homemade spears, occasionally even a hand grenade. In South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their ranks often swelled by uniformed Vietnamese servicemen. A month in the gathering, South Viet Nam's storm of political unrest had erupted in a hail of intermittent violence and near civil...
...pirated a locomotive and sent it barreling into Saigon's Central Station, where it demolished two waiting rooms and killed ten sleeping soldiers. More damaging has been the effect on South Viet Nam's economy: vegetable prices have soared 60% since the Communists cut the line between Dalat and Saigon, and the cost of "33" brand beer, Viet Nam's favorite brew, has climbed from 15 to 70 piasters a bottle in Danang. Says a U.S. adviser: "The only way to secure the line is to take up the rails at 5 p.m., and lock them...
...lines. The railroad to Hue, South Viet Nam's ancient Buddhist center far to the north, has not been used for a year. Route 4, over which most of the rich harvest of the Mekong Delta moves to Saigon, is mined with jolting frequency. The road from mountainous Dalat-source of the capital's vegetables and fruit-can be traversed only by army truck convoys. On back-country roads last week, the Viet Cong coolly halted traffic, confiscated bikes, cars and motor scooters even from those who were willing to pay the usual Red traffic toll...
...across his bare back and fired it several times, leaving a twelve-inch scar. In the same province two months ago, the Viet Cong conscripted 125 village men for forced labor; when 25 villagers refused to go along, the Viet Cong shot them. At a village between Saigon and Dalat last week, a Viet Cong soldier lectured peasants. "Tell your daughters," he said, "that we will skin alive any girl we find with an American. And if any American touches our girls, we will sterilize...