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There is no evidence that a Buddhist-controlled government would press the war against the Viet Cong. There is a great deal of evidence that instead it would try to negotiate with the Reds to bring about the "neutralization" of South Viet Nam. U.S. officials tend to accept Tri Quang's assertions that he is not a Communist or working with them. Still, there can be little doubt that the Communists have infiltrated the Buddhists to some extent. Besides, illusions may well be more dangerous than infiltration. Tri Quang is guilty of the classic, fatal error: he seems to believe...
...only 18 months ago that a 73-year-old Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc sat down in the middle of a Saigon street and, drenched in five gallons of gasoline, calmly set himself afire with a cigarette lighter to dramatize Buddhist opposition to the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. It was this calculated grisly act of propaganda?and Diem's harsh countermeasures?that eventually led the U.S. to withdraw support from Diem, permitting his overthrow and murder. At the time, the West had great sympathy for South Viet Nam's Buddhists. Now the atmosphere is different. There...
...that they are trying to help the Communists are indignantly rejected by the Buddhist leaders. On the contrary, they insist that they represent "the people," while the government does not, hence that they are the only power in South Viet Nam that can truly oppose the Communists. Thich Tri Quang, who is emerging as South Viet Nam's top Buddhist leader?Americans remember him as the monk who took refuge in the U.S. embassy during the weeks preceding Diem's overthrow?sounds as anti-Communist as any American could wish. Says he: "Like all educated Buddhists, I don't like...
...contrast, a spur-of-the-moment raid in Quang Nam province caught the Communists with their black pajamas down. The 17-chopper "Eagle" force dropped 54 Rangers on a company of surprised Viet Cong; the toll was 17 Red dead, 21 captured. To the precariously balanced Saigon regime of Premier Tran Van Huong, still hanging on despite another week of student demonstrations, the lesson was painfully clear: any operation plan more than eight hours in the making is bound to be found out by the Viet Cong. Just as the French learned during their long, losing Indo-China campaign...
...observers believe that South Viet Nam's warring factions, shaken by anarchy and Viet Cong inroads, are coming to realize the need for stability. Startlingly, a Buddhist weekly in Hue declared last week: "If Communism triumphs, Buddhism cannot survive." Published over the name of left-leaning Thich Tri Quang, the editorial was the Buddhists' strongest anti-Communist statement...