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Buddhists feel that Diem's government is trying to make Catholicism the official state religion, point to the morality crusade of Diem's militantly Catholic sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. In sharp variance with the easy social mores of most South Vietnamese, Mme. Nhu has banned abortion, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, divorce (except by presidential dispensation), and the sale of contraceptives...
...their religion. "I don't forget," he says, "that 80% of the votes that elected me President were Buddhist votes." Catholics maintain that they occupy so many influential posts only because their church schools turn out far better educated graduates than Buddhist schools. In a sharply worded statement, Mme. Nhu challenged the good faith of striking bonzes (monks). "The robe does not make the bonze," said Mme. Nhu. "It is necessary to examine very closely the comportment of certain so-called Buddhist monks who continue to make not only inconsiderate but false remarks and overtly assume an attitude incompatible...
...These days, with tighter police security, De Gaulle usually makes the trip between Paris and Colombey by helicopter. Escorted by a heavy police guard, he drives a few miles down the highway to an isolated, predetermined spot on the road. There, as shown with Mme, De Gaulle in photographs released 'this week (.see cuts), he leaves his car, enters the waiting helicopter, and makes his journey...
...MME. RAYMONDS GUILBO...
Voltaire, quarrelsome and sickly in his old age, was in Switzerland during the long months of the investigation and trial. By the time he heard of the case, judgment had been pronounced. Mme. Calas was released, her other son was banished from France. But Father Calas was executed upon the wheel; the judges' sentence stipulated that his arms, legs, loins and thighs were to be broken and "his face turned to the sky, to live in pain and repentance . . . as long as it pleases God to give him life...