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Hunger of Sorts. At that very moment, before 100 newsmen, Buddhist Political Chief Thich Tam Chau announced that he and four other monks had decided to "fast to the death if necessary, to protest against the cruel Huong regime." The five, including Thich Tri Quang, firebrand leader of Buddhists in Hué, took up positions sitting or lying side by side inside Saigon's main pagodas. It was hardly a bed of nails. Their pallets were comfortable foam-rubber mattresses draped with mosquito netting. Beside the fasters were handy slices of fruit and glasses of pale, cold tea, prompting...
...Saigon, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Military Advisory Chief William Westmoreland gazed down on the violent scene. Massed in the street before the embassy was a cursing, fist-shaking throng led by some 300 yellow-robed Buddhist monks and nuns, screaming demands that the U.S. abandon Premier Tran Van Huong -and thinly veiled invitations that it get out of South Viet...
Vietnamese paratroopers guarding the shuttered and barred embassy entrance permitted a small group of demonstrators to hand over an anti-Huong petition to Taylor. But then the mob, urged on by the monks, who blared orders over battery-powered bullhorns, refused to disperse. The troops donned gas masks and broke it up with doses of tear gas and swinging clubs. Four blocks away a wave of shouting youths commanded by four monks marched on the U.S. Information Service library, smashed its glass doors and windows...
Naturally their latest offensive came as Premier Huong endeavored once again to put back together his Humpty-Dumpty regime. Last week Huong installed four military officers in his Cabinet in an effort to improve relations with the brass and discourage more coups. There was a slight delay. Although Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu waited in the palace on the appointed day, the four failed to show up because Air Force Boss Nguyen Cao Ky had last-minute second thoughts about giving up his command for his Cabinet assignment-Minister of Youth and Sports. Finally Ky reluctantly agreed...
Meanwhile, Up North ... At week's end scattered disorders continued. The Huong government-so far-had stood fast. Police announced that 223 rioters had been jailed in Saigon...