Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diversion, Tri Ton offers an interesting pagoda, a few colorful tombs and a lively market. The nearest restaurant is two hours away by car. The truce inspectors seldom leave their compound, however, except on business. They eat mediocre American-style food-provided under a contract by an American company -play Ping Pong and stage parties for each other...
...lift out the 2,500 American servicemen who still remained in the country on the last day. At about 5:20, a chipper North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne near by. Though...
...turn Sun Moon Lake into an international resort. They are finishing a $10 million Buddhist temple and plan a new highway to encircle the lake. There are already several minor temples around the lake. By climbing 400 steps up a mountainside, and 200 more inside one pagoda, one can get a view of the entire area. It is almost as breathtaking as the climb...
...Chicago. It was, in Critic Michael Aden's phrase, "the living-room war." The evening news on television imaged forth the village ignited with a Zippo lighter, the director of South Viet Nam's police matter-of-factly blowing out a man's brains near the An Quang pagoda, the Buddhists burning themselves to death. In a sense, all Americans became veterans; the war was mainlined electronically straight into the national bloodstream...
...against a succession of Saigon governments. Intense and ardent, an excellent organizer, Tri Quang inspired the beginning of the Buddhist demonstrations against Diem in 1963, followed through in 1965 and 1966 against Premier Ky and President Thieu. As the latter solidified his power, Tri Quang drifted back to his pagoda in Saigon. Now he is studying Buddhist scriptures, toying with a stamp collection and perhaps thinking out ways to deal with a new government...