Word: hanh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation of an election commission in which the Front would be strongly represented along with the Saigon government. The commission would run the balloting for a new government, committing both sides to abide by the results. Another ingenious, if unlikely, scheme has been suggested by Buddhist Nationalist Thich Nhat Hanh: an interim government made up of those South Vietnamese who reject the leadership of both the National Liberation Front and the Saigon government...
Brown-robed Buddhist Monk Thich Hanh Dao said that the monks in his Delta pagoda had discussed the candidates before voting, "and we all agreed to vote for the same person." That person was Huong, the monk hinted, but he admitted that he would not have been surprised if some of his colleagues had changed their minds. "When you walk into that little black room," he said, "you suddenly become aware that you really are free to pick whomever you want. It makes you stop and think...
...Vietnamese festival of Tet combines the qualities of Christmas and the end of Ramadan, the Hindu feast of lights and the pagan rites of spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head...
...only damaging to human life and property, but also to our morality," Nhat Hanh said. "We rely on the intellectual and religious community in the U.S. to understand our suffering and help us out of a desperate situation...
...advantage of being indistinguishable from the peasants, and as a result there is a very high rate of civilian casualties when the U.S. retaliates after Viet Cong attacks. "When your press reports that 600 Cong were killed in a military operation, that figure may include 590 innocent peasants," Nhat Hanh added...