Word: hues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOHN K. MCDERMOTT Hue, South Viet...
...Allied search-and-destroy missions in the last 100 days. While the headlines were filled with South Viet Nam's Buddhist-fueled political crisis, the Allies, running an average of 15 battalion-size-or-larger operations each week, have been methodically hunting down the enemy. From north of Hue to south of Saigon, from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands to Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, spearheaded by the armor and artillery and airpower of the U.S., the Allies have been hitting the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese reinforcements where they live (see map), seizing...
Immoderate as the moderate Tarn Chau might have appeared, he could not hold a candle to Thich Tri Quang, the rebellious high priest of Hue. Carrying civil disobedience to an ingenious new low, Tri Quang ordered all Buddhists in the ancient imperial capital to display their defiance by hauling family altars out of their homes into the nearest street. Thousands complied, and the Hue police did nothing to stop them. The altars blocked all roads, halting for 48 hours convoys on their way to a military buildup north of Hue-until Tri Quang generously allocated a few hours every...
None of the Buddhist maneuvers seemed to faze the energetic Premier. Instead of resigning, Ky was busy consolidating his strength in the Hue-based I Corps, whose officers had been in rebellion against the government in Saigon. Working carefully, he finally felt strong enough to dispatch 400 combat police to take over Hue. His cops entered the city without interference, arrested Hue's own rebellious police, and ordered the altars removed. And as the fasting Tri Quang grew so weak that he was admitted to a local military hospital, Ky happily announced that all was well. So well that...
...Dinh Diem's anti-Buddhist repressions. At that time the monks were playing on a religious chord that brought a dramatic response in the largely Buddhist nation. This time the immolations were naked political power plays, inspired if not condoned by militant Monk Thich Tri Quang in Hue. While the flames were still flickering over the nun's charred body, Tri Quang summoned the press to make clear his grievance: Premier Ky's successful suppression of the Buddhist-inspired rebellion in nearby Danang, a "crime" against Buddhists equal to the "crime of Hiroshima." Moreover, he said...