Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transfer the suffering of others to oneself. The martyr is usually considered a holy man so close to nirvana that he is unaffected by pain. Quang Due's premeditated act was a demonstration of Buddhist determination to force South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem to knuckle under to demands for increased religious freedom (TIME, June 14). In a will written "before closing my eyes to Buddha," Quang Due said: "I have the honor of presenting my words to President Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce...
...were set up on the outskirts, and barbed-wire barricades encircled the sacred Tudam Pagoda. These government security measures were not a precaution against an attack by Communist guerrillas; they were taken to quell demonstrations by Hue's Buddhist population against the regime of Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh...
Buddhists feel that Diem's government is trying to make Catholicism the official state religion, point to the morality crusade of Diem's militantly Catholic sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. In sharp variance with the easy social mores of most South Vietnamese, Mme. Nhu has banned abortion, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, divorce (except by presidential dispensation), and the sale of contraceptives...
Protest Strike. The situation came to a head last month in Hue (pop. 106,000), which happens to be the see of Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc. Though Catholics were allowed to fly Vatican flags at a church celebration honoring Archbishop Thuc, three days later the government forbade the Buddhists to unfurl their religious flags for the 2,507th birthday of Gautama Buddha. When the Buddhists staged a protest march against the edict, government armored cars fired over the heads of the rioters. In the melee, nine people were killed. The Buddhists blamed the slaughter on Diem...
...Americans have lost their lives in the fighting so far, their most bitter complaint is that military operations are constantly hobbled by political considerations. The big command decisions have to be cleared with President Diem, who still leans heavily on such members of his family as Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, and the beauteous Madame Nhu, for advice and support in the struggle against the Communists. Diem is mistrustful of many of his best soldiers and fears also that continued heavy casualties will undermine what public support he enjoys. U.S. officers have pleaded in vain with Diem to allow more small...