Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government cordon was nearly closed. Ky's marines, backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away, the foreign press, mostly American, was taking a breather on the cement terrace of the Press Center overlooking the Danang River...
...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...
...announcement would come. A Buddhist Boy Scout told us in broken English to wait another five minutes. A man in a green uniform blandly assured us that it would deal with the reasons for the rebel fight against the Ky government. That hardly seemed worth summoning us to the pagoda, and it suddenly occurred to us that it might very well be a trap. If the rebels feared a government attack on Tinh Hoi, what better way to forestall it than by arranging the presence of three dozen foreign reporters inside the pagoda...
...shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside, took the netting. The firefight was over with the big blast. Twenty minutes later, the Tinh Hoi loudspeaker announced that the rest of the newsmen were coming out of the pagoda and that this time there would be no shooting. We joined them and walked the last four blocks home...
...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...