Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thick Tri Quang is emerging as South Viet Nam's top Buddhist leader...
...editors appraise the little-known, shadowy figure who last week emerged-big. That earlier story, "Buddha on the Barricades," examined the faith and its activist-passivist syndrome and warned that it is a force to be reckoned with. With the reckoning now nearer at hand, Tri Quang became the cover this week...
Perhaps the most fascinating confrontation for this week's cover story was the meeting of correspondent and cover subject. "Why do you shave your head?" Tri Quang asked, staring at Frank McCulloch's gleaming pate. Frank said he looked worse with hair. Tri Quang marveled at Frank's close shave and inquired: "Doesn't it hurt you?" The monk drew out an electric razor and said with a smile: "I use this, but it doesn't give a very close shave." Then Tri Quang fixed McCulloch with a thoughtful stare and concluded the preliminaries with...
...Directory, headed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, had survived, but with lost face and a doubtful future. The U.S. would still be dealing with the Directory as it prepared to hold elections to give the country a civilian government. But Washington would have to pay increasing attention to Tri Quang, the infrangible Buddhist prelate who had emerged as the country's most astute and powerful politician (see THE WORLD...
...intervened so adroitly that even the wily Thich Tri Quang would have been impressed, had he not been grounded in Saigon by Ky's cancellation of all Air Viet Nam domestic flights. What the U.S. did was order the evacuation of all American civilians and military advisers in Hué. Night before they were due to leave, a province chief tried to call the Vietnamese division headquarters in Hué in order to get an artillery strike against the Viet Cong. Without the U.S. advisers around, not a Vietnamese soldier was on duty to answer the call. Next morning...