Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightmarish repetition of the immolations of 1963, when eight Buddhists burned themselves to death protesting President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Buddhist repressions. At that time the monks were playing on a religious chord that brought a dramatic response in the largely Buddhist nation. This time the immolations were naked political power plays, inspired if not condoned by militant Monk Thich Tri Quang in Hue. While the flames were still flickering over the nun's charred body, Tri Quang summoned the press to make clear his grievance: Premier Ky's successful suppression of the Buddhist-inspired rebellion...
Until 1963 Nhat Hanh taught Oriental Religions at Columbia University. He studied at both Princeton and Columbia. With the Buddhist uprising against the Diem government, he was called back to Vietnam by Thich Tri Quang, and has stayed there until his present trip...
...doctors arrived last September; the current head count is 29, scattered up and down the country working alongside similar teams from Korea, Switzerland, the Philippines, Iran, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. The U.S. program limits itself to volunteer physicians under 55. They get free transportation and a $10 per-diem for incidentals. Balanced against this is time lost from practice that amounts to a sacrifice of thousands of dollars...
Thus, Lord Harlech envisions neither a major war nor an American defeat, unless America acts very incautiously. What he does foresee is a long, inconclusive struggle over relatively minor issues. There was good reason, he believes, to support Diem at the beginning. The man seemed vigorous and dedicated, and the entire population--not only the Catholic refugees from the North--seemed reluctant to accept Communist rule from Hanoi. But, partly because the U.S. failed to pressure Diem to jettison the Nhus, the political situation in South Vietnam is now thoroughly muddled. Harlech feels it is now time...
Since the summer of 1963, when aging Tran Van Chuong, father of Viet Nam's contentious Dragon Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, resigned in protest against the Diem regime, Saigon in effect had had no representation in Washington. The Vietnamese embassy, a handsome, four-story structure in northwest Washington, had become rundown and dirty. One of Thai's first projects was to have the building cleaned and refurbished from attic to basement...