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...week in Saigon began and ended with death. At its start, another Buddhist, the seventh, chose the now notorious way of protest against President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. Soaked in gasoline, he rode up to a crowded square, struck a spark, and went up in flames before anyone could stop him. At week's end, Diem himself lay dead alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The two men who had fought so long and so stubbornly-against Communism, against their critics, against the Buddhist demonstrators-had been consumed by a fire more slowly and carefully prepared...
...perfectly plain that the reduction of U.S. aid to Diem and Washington's public disapproval of his repressive measures against the Buddhists set the scene for the coup (see THE NATION). As the news from Saigon unfolded, it was Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who provided a bitter chorus from Los Angeles, where she was winding up her U.S. tour. Said she: "There can be no coup without American incitement or backing." This time, even her severest critics, including the Moscow press, agreed with...
Satisfaction with the fall of the Ngo family cabal in South Vietnam must not distract the United States government from the full policy reappraisal which the coup both permits and requires...
...differently from what most observers, governmental and private, expect, both these predictions will be rendered false. That the two were ever believed with the conviction they once were indicates that the U.S. government sometimes deludes itself to avoid embarrassing and difficult policy changes. It may have learned from the Ngo family episode, but if it has not, scheduled withdrawals can prevent a repeat performance...
Meanwhile Buddhists from eleven Asian nations-some fellow travelers, but others apparently sincere monks-turned up in Peking for a three-day rally, listened to a Viet Cong delegate denounce South Viet Nam as "a hell on earth created by United States imperialism and its lackey, the Ngo Dinh Diem clique." Ignoring Red China's own subjugation of Buddhism, the meeting unanimously adopted a resolution accusing Diem of "atrocities." By serving as a vehicle for Red Chinese propaganda, the Buddhists hardly strengthened their case...