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...understanding of the hopes, aspirations and desperation of the grassroots Vietnamese behind whom the Buddhists rally. If Thich Tri Quang [April 22] seems wily, militant and unpredictable, it is because of the enigmatic situation he is in, to which we in no small measure have contributed. If Vien Hoa Dao stands as the monument of hope for the Saigon Buddhist masses, Thich Tri Quang most certainly symbolizes the 20th century Vietnamese intellectual desperately attempting to cope with the complexity of modern civilization forced upon him by the currents of history...
Naturally, he inspires wildly conflicting responses. To some seasoned Saigon observers, he is by far "the most dangerous man in South Viet Nam." To a young American girl who works near him in Saigon's Buddhist Institute for the Propagation of the Faith, Vien Hoa Dao, he seems "affable, fallible and lovable." U.S. officials who must deal with him are both awed and appalled. Former U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor in exasperation once called him "the Makarios of Southeast Asia"?though he is far more retiring and ascetic than Makarios. One of his Buddhist rivals insists that...
Then, abruptly, Tri Quang called the mobs off and early last week summoned the press to the ramshackle five-acre compound of buildings that comprises the Vien Hoa Dao. While his spokesmen read a statement threatening "a civil war that will take tens of thousands of lives because of the short sightedness, irascibility and irresponsibility of the present government," Thich Tri Quang, hardly a bead of perspiration blotting his unfurrowed brow in the 105° heat, silently looked...
...keep the pressure on Ky and the congress, Tri Quang had scheduled for that night a protest march of "many, many men," and all Saigon was braced for the worst. With their point won, the Buddhists instead sent word out from Vien Hoa Dao to cool it. In an astonishing display of their power to turn the masses off and on at will, the demonstration was transformed into a peaceful, highly organized march. The 15,000 faithful that assembled at the institute left behind their plastic-bag gas masks and clubs and grenades. As they marched out to demonstrate, burly...
...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...