Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grudging Response. The one Buddhist leader who remained visible was Thich Tri Quang, who left the sudden quiet of Saigon and traveled north to his home territory, where riot and uneasiness still simmer. The five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corp are, in fact, still largely in open rebellion against the Saigon government and completely removed from its control. Pleading for moderation, Tri Quang tried to calm the northern cries for Ky's 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...
...most timely chapters in Lacouture's book asks, "What do the Buddhists want?" The Buddhist organization has attempted to eliminate from the country all influences foreign to it such as Catholicism and materialism. They want to have Buddhism proclaimed the state religion and religious leaders like Tri Quang, the "conscience" of the future South Vietnam...
...testing of Tri Quang may come sooner than that. At week's end 2,500 rioters, ignoring the Saigon accord, swept through Danang and publicly burned the Ky proclamation for elections. They demanded that the generals step down immediately. With ousted General Thi openly agreeing and much of I Corps in rebellion against Saigon's control, Thich Tri Quang prepared this week to fly back home as a "peace envoy" to Hué, where lies his chief strength. Whether as peace envoy or missionary of discontent, he will more and more bear on his slim and restless shoulders the welfare...
...unusual private interview, one of the relatively few he has granted to Western newsmen, Thich Tri Quang talked for an hour last week with TIME Correspondents Frank McCulloch and James Wilde at his Saigon residence, a room in a maternity clinic. The interpreter was Than Trong Hue, a Vietnamese member of the TIME staff, who addressed the monk with the "venerable" title reserved for the Buddhist clergy. Tri Quang was clad in a hospital gown, white pantaloons, and brown leather sandals...
...last week that at one point it nearly produced civil war. Flown from Saigon by Premier Ky to "liberate" the northern town of Danang, three battalions of Vietnamese marines at Danang Air Force Base showed every sign of marching into the city. When he heard of this, Colonel Dam Quang Yeu, commander of Vietnamese army troops at Hoi An, 15 miles to the south, decided to march on Danang to block the paratroopers. With several hundred men, 13 armored carriers, four 155-mm. howitzers and enough ammunition to blow up a city, he set up a command post four miles...