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...civil service employees -and like others in recent weeks, was happily honored by the citizens of Hué. Indeed, Hué and the five northernmost provinces of the 1 Corps, in which it is the principal city, are virtually under the control of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang and the Hué students. Though Ky's government remained in control in Saigon, the Hué infection was all too evident...
...Quest of Power. What the Buddhists say they want is a constitution, an elected civilian government and a National Assembly. Ky has told them they can have all three-in good time. The extremist Buddhists led by Hué's Thich Tri Quang are unwilling to wait, even though ousting the generals now would cut off the Buddhists' best chance of getting a constitution. The bonzes are maneuvering to get the Assembly that will draw up the new constitution chosen from provincial and city councils-which Buddhists control. Ky has so far refused, and with good reason...
Meanwhile the Communist agitators are using the Buddhists' mobs for all they are worth, and at week's end the demonstrations boiled up dangerously. Some 5,000 turned out in Hué as a warm-up for the "Week of Anger" Tri Quang scheduled in the city this week. Another 10,000 marched in Danang. Government offices were looted in Qhi Nhon, where 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers-among them several senior officers-demonstrated. In Saigon, Buddhist students brandishing bicycle chains and sticks took to the streets, overturning autos, throwing rocks and chanting "Yankees go home...
Though South Viet Nam's most powerful Buddhist, Thich Tri Quang, accused Premier Ky of "indulging in a cult of personality," most of the Buddhist plaints and placards were aimed at Chief of State Thieu. Thieu is a Catholic, and it is political paramountcy over the Catholics that the bonzes want, rather than an outright overthrow of the government just...
...also warning that street demonstrations would be ruthlessly crushed. Ky is a man of his word: last week, in fulfillment of his pledge to shoot war profiteers, Chinese Merchant Ta Vinh was executed at dawn by a firing squad. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge also met with Thich Tri Quang to caution moderation. To quell the demonstrations in the north, Ky sent the ousted General Thi back to I Corps to calm and reassure his own disappointed supporters, who included many of the soldiers in the two divisions he commanded there. It was a risky move: in his speeches...