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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...
...Dinh Can, 50, technically holds no government post at all, but in fact runs the city of Hue and surrounding central Viet Nam. Although, unlike his brothers, Can has never been abroad, did not go to a university, and runs his fiefdom like an old warlord, the war in the central highlands is going far bet ter than anywhere else in South Viet Nam. An inveterate ao-dai chaser, Can has incurred Mme. Nhu's wrath: "He is stubborn and touchy, and unbearably obsolete concerning women." But, she concedes, "we all feel safer to have him in Hu?...
...Dinh Thuc, 66, the eldest, is Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hue (pronounced Whey), controls large amounts of property in the name of the church, and has placed several favorites in Diem's Cabinet. Diem repeatedly tried to get Thuc transferred to the vacant See of Saigon, but the Vatican, which is distressed by the extent to which Diem's repressive measures have tarnished the image of Catholicism in South Viet Nam, vetoed the suggestion. It has also ignored all hints that Archbishop Thuc might become a cardinal. Thuc is the only one of the brothers whom Mme. Nhu does...
Yevtushenko and others have branded such attitudes "dogmatic." They claim there is room in the Soviet Union for both the influx of foreign art and literature, and also indigenous creativity that does not-necessarily hue to the line of socialist realism. Again, the Party's policies are dictated primarily by political considerations. When Premier Khurshchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for more intellectual freedom was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily squashed the dissident voices...
Hard Line. All these discontents need not have erupted if government troops had not stupidly and brutally gunned down nine Buddhist demonstrators at a rally in Hue two months ago. Even then, the Buddhist controversy would probably have died down if the government had offered a public apology, which is the Buddhists' chief demand, along with such practical matters as freedom of assembly, the right to fly their flag, Buddhist chaplains in the army. But Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu has always urged a hard line. What he fears-with some reason-is that if Diem gives in even slightly...