Word: hued
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue was Ky's announced draft of students and professors into the Vietnamese army for officer training. The roar came from Hué, where the draft order would have reduced the local university's faculty to four professors. Meeting in a series of open "seminars," a sort of Asiatic teach-in, 500 draft eligibles issued a fiery manifesto accusing Ky of attempting to "lead the society into a state of confusion and darkness," demanded the overthrow of the government, free elections and, for good measure, "social revolution...
...themselves the Hué intellectuals are a small voice in Viet Nam, but 14 labor leaders sat in on their seminars, and the tone of their manifesto was strangely reminiscent of Thich Tri Quang, leader of Viet Nam's militant Buddhist mobs, who by coincidence was in Hué for a rally of his own. Taking no chances, Ky softened the draft. The army would exempt intellectuals holding "important" positions, announced Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and would give many others only a quick training course and return them to their desks-in uniform...
Still unsatisfied, Hué's big-men-on-campus called a mass meeting in a downtown cinema, attacked the milder draft law as a government conspiracy to "regiment" the intellectuals. They also sent a delegation to line up the students at the University of Saigon. Saigon would not line up. One reason: the city seems tired of marches, demonstrations and coups. Another is that many students who might otherwise be plotting to issue manifestoes are busy with more wholesome activities...
...born in Nghe An province will oppose anything." That is where Ho was born, in 1890, when France dominated Indo-China-much to the disgust of Ho's father, a scholarly colonial employee who was fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...
Quat's travels through the countryside have taken him from Hué in the north to the tip of Camau Peninsula, talking to peasants and regional politicians in an attempt to show Saigon's interest in their problems. Also of importance: the Premier's relations with the U.S. embassy are much better than were Khanh...