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...week screeching street mobs, urged on by the same Buddhist monks who ignited the 1963 uprisings that led to the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem, rampaged out of control in Saigon, Danang, Hue and other cities. This time they were baying for the end of South Viet Nam's ten-man Military Directory and, in particular, for the ouster of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky (see THE WORLD). Through it all, the Administration maintained a meticulous, almost relaxed air of calm in the eye of the storm...
...robed 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...
...Buddhists' mobs for all they are worth, and at week's end the demonstrations boiled up dangerously. Some 5,000 turned out in Hué as a warm-up for the "Week of Anger" Tri Quang scheduled in the city this week. Another 10,000 marched in Danang. Government offices were looted in Qhi Nhon, where 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers-among them several senior officers-demonstrated. In Saigon, Buddhist students brandishing bicycle chains and sticks took to the streets, overturning autos, throwing rocks and chanting "Yankees go home" in the most violent and ugly outburst...
When ten irate students showed up at Danang's spanking-new 1,000-watt transmitter, an official readily turned over the microphones. "Why not?" he asked quietly. "It's a community station...
...Viet Cong, of course, were quick to exploit the unrest in I Corps. Last week Red agents infiltrated some of the demonstrations in Hue and took solace from the two-day general strike that cut down traffic and slowed unloading at Danang's busy port. That sent Premier Ky to the nationwide radio at week's end with a warning that the government would "move strongly" to quell agitation. But Ky moderated the threat with a promise that South Viet Nam would be given a new constitution by November at the latest, and other officials hinted that national...