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Thick Tri Quang is emerging as South Viet Nam's top Buddhist leader...
Tough, well-trained Viet Cong agents helped stir the mobs. Yet the demonstrations were directly inspired by a politically astute, professedly anti-Communist Buddhist prelate, Thich (meaning venerable) Tri Quang, a ruthless infighter who has been described by former Ambassador Maxwell Taylor as "the Makarios of Southeast Asia...
...uprising began in earnest on March 10 when Ky's junta dismissed Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, long considered Ky's chief rival for power within the Directory. Administration experts are convinced that the ambitious little general was only Tri Quang's pawn. "Thi's dismissal simply gave the movement a little more whammy," said a top State Department expert. In Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy's view, Tri Quang's men want to "accelerate the timetable" for a change in government in order to set up "a constitution and elections that would...
...with the near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some of the I Corps officers and men in Danang began agitating for Thi's return to command, Ky was confident that Tri Quang would lie low and let Saigon settle...
...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...