Word: khanh
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...peppered fish sticks, were 250,000 spectators. As the Buddhists celebrated the 2,508th year of Buddha's birth and the first anniversary of their successful campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem, they plainly showed themselves a growing force in South Viet Nam. Significantly, neither Premier General Nguyen Khanh nor U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was present at the ceremonies - a reflection of growing distrust of Buddhist aims...
...Major Sy's case, Catholics angrily argued that he had only followed superiors' directives to keep order, and Catholic army officers circulated leaflets warning of serious trouble if Sy was shot. Although the Buddhist hierarchy now speaks of leniency for Sy, fear of a clash persists. Khanh, a Buddhist, has taken pains to antagonize neither the Catholics nor the Buddhists. But he is angered by the Buddhists' lack of support for his regime...
...biggest daily is hard put to it to muster 35,000 readers, run the risk of offending the government. The late President Diem controlled the press with a heavy hand. And, after a temporary lull, so did the junta government that overthrew him. Last week Major General Nguyen Khanh, who overthrew Diem's over-throwers last January, demonstrated that he was no different from any of his predecessors. In two successive days he ordered seven Saigon dailies out of print...
...banned papers had sinned in the traditional South Viet Nam way-that is, by printing something not to the authorities' taste. One paper had dared to refer to Khanh's military regime as a "socalled democratic government." Another, noting that terrorists had scuttled a U.S. aircraft ferry in Saigon harbor last month, challenged the adequacy of Khanh's security measures...
...Khanh regime is eagerly awaiting Washington's latest boost-an additional $125 million in economic and military aid recommended fortnight ago by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Of the total, $70 million will go toward bailing out the war-bankrupted Vietnamese economy, $55 million toward raising the pay of soldiers and civilian government employees engaged directly in Khanh's badly lagging "pacification" campaign...