Word: hao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naturally, we must prepare ourselves, and those who have not already done so must do so now. However, let me emphasize that I personally believe and hope that the elections will not yield a Buddhist majority. I wish that any Vietnamese Catholic, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai and Protestant who has proved his sense of loyalty to the people and wishes to serve the people could be elected. What I would like to see as a result of this election is an equity for all, not a predominance for anyone. After all, Diem's assembly was elected with a predominance...
...Assembly that will draw up the new constitution chosen from provincial and city councils-which Buddhists control. Ky has so far refused, and with good reason. A Buddhist-dominated Assembly would bring into the streets Viet Nam's four other major religious groups: the Catholics, the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai and the Protestants. Saigon Buddhist Thich Tam Chau seems willing to compromise with the government on the Assembly, but so far the fiery Tri Quang has refused-and is using the demonstrations to improve his leverage...
...abutting the 17th parallel in the northernmost provinces, where the Reds, having apparently abandoned hopes of slicing South Viet Nam in two at the Central Highlands, are now concentrating their efforts. In Operation Texas, six battalions of allied forces dashed to the aid of a beleaguered outpost at An Hao, then found themselves tangling with four battalions of hardcore Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. In five days they wiped out 485 of the attackers and crippled the unit as a fighting force...
Quat had been forced by a crippling Cabinet crisis to call the generals back into politics-and they returned only with the greatest of reluctance. For nearly three weeks, Catholic extremists and elements of the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao sects had demanded Quat's resignation, charging him with persecution of religious and national minorities, and conspiring with "French colonialists" to neutralize South Viet Nam. When Quat tried to reshuffle his Cabinet, Suu, who backed Quat's foes, vetoed the shifts. The Catholics took to the streets, and Quat feared that he might soon be faced with madness...
...South China Sea, McNamara strolled dusty streets, shaking hands and tousling children's hair, while Khanh conferred respectfully with town elders and coddled a baby. "We would make a good team," Khanh cracked to McNamara at one point. When the pair were airlifted by helicopter into Hoa Hao, a thatch-roofed village near the Cambodian border and seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both...