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...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...
Asked whether he thought elections a viable solution, Nhat Hanh replied that they might work under international direction, but that he personally didn't have much faith in elections because of the political pressure and control which would be exerted by each side...
...Nhat Hanh said, the Viet Cong have a number of effective propaganda weapons in addition to the claim that the U.S. is fighting an imperialist...
...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...