Word: hues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Diem's severest critics in Saigon concede that there was no serious religious persecution until the present troubles began, and that the Buddhist movement has become a political force dedicated to Diem's overthrow. His regime meanwhile freed 125 Buddhists and sympathizers in Hue who were jailed after last August's riots; how many others are still being held is not known...
There is a story there, and it is currently the biggest intramural story in U.S. journalism-the most argued-about and debated press story since the hue and cry over "managed news" last year...
Lose the War. Hilsman denied that a significant policy cable was sent out Aug. 24-or any other time-without being circulated in the Pentagon; but it seemed to be a matter of interpretation of what was significant. He was shaken by the hue and cry that erupted last week when word of the cable's existence leaked from the Pentagon to the New York Herald Tribune. Said West Pointer Hilsman: "We've never tried to pull strings on puppets or go for a coup d'etat. The U.S. can't do this. If we ever...
...open-necked suntans and Army clodhoppers, with Harkins always at his side, the poker-faced McNamara would begin by hearing from the local Vietnamese commander, then he would sit down before the U.S. detachment, firing incisive questions and scribbling notes in his lefthanded script on a white pad. At Hue, where the whole uproar began when government troops killed nine Buddhist demonstrators, the Defense Secretary listened to a half-hour briefing. At Tamky, under a faded tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles away. Then...
Buddhist leaders said they would not agree to any conciliation until the government made several concessions, and accepted responsibility for the nine Buddhists being shot down at a religious demonstration in Hue last May. But Diem is still hopeful that they will agree to some discussion and mediation...