Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightmarish repetition of the immolations of 1963, when eight Buddhists burned themselves to death protesting President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Buddhist repressions. At that time the monks were playing on a religious chord that brought a dramatic response in the largely Buddhist nation. This time the immolations were naked political power plays, inspired if not condoned by militant Monk Thich Tri Quang in Hue. While the flames were still flickering over the nun's charred body, Tri Quang summoned the press to make clear his grievance: Premier Ky's successful suppression of the Buddhist-inspired rebellion...
Tragic & Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary...
Suddenly a Jeep with a Red Cross blazon roared up. Driven by a young Vietnamese with his head swathed in bandages, it carried a Buddhist monk and a young girl with a bandaged arm. They had a message: the press was invited to Tinh Hoi at once for an announcement. Grabbing cameras and note pads, some 35 newsmen set out for the pagoda, passing first through government lines, then the firing pits of the Tinh Hoi compound filled with rebel soldiers. Among them were TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William McWhirter...
...Mike Radetsky; 2. Jon Eddy (capt.); 3. Gibby Vincent; 4. Charlie Spence; 5. Al Gauld; 6. Sandy Bolster; 7. Bruce Stevenson; stroke. Monk Terry; cox Brian Sullivan...
...immediate ouster. Speaking in Hue, he said bluntly: "Your demands do not meet the general consensus, so you must curb them. That is the first start of a democracy." Next day, addressing a crowd of 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers, at the Dieu Da Pagoda, the fiery-eyed monk argued that "what we want is a democratic structure. We are making a revolution, not a coup...