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...progress of a sort. Most of the nine previous changes in Saigon's government were spawned by jealous generals and accompanied by the rumble of tanks. Last week, as the four-month-old civilian government of Premier Phan Huy Quat turned power back to the military, the only signs of crisis were the gleaming limousines of the generals and a slight increase in the number of marines patrolling Saigon's rain-wet streets. Even when the turnover was finally effected, little had changed on the surface; both Quat and his antagonist, Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, remained...
...Phan Huy Quat, whom they accuse of pro-Buddhist leanings. Cops fired into the air-and a bit lower-while the demonstrators burned an official...
There were troubles, too, in Saigon. As usual, they were regional and religious. Premier Phan Huy Quat precipitated a squabble with South Viet Nam's wispy Chief of State, Phan Khac Suu, by announcing his long-delayed Cabinet reshuffle. Quat replaced the Ministers of Interior and Economy with "northerners," and Suu, who was born in the southern Mekong Delta region, refused to accept the switch...
Trip Postponed. As if that weren't enough, the Premier was next challenged by an angry delegation of Catholics headed by fiery Father Hoang Quynh. Quynh was burning over Quat's arrests of Catholics following last month's "coup attempt" (TIME, May 28). He was particularly incensed at Quat's contention that the Catholics had been in league with the Viet Cong in the plot. "Such a claim is ridiculous," Quynh snapped, "since Catholics would never work with Communists...
Quynh's militants demanded that Quat be dismissed, but since the Premier retains the support of the military and the nation's Buddhists, it was clearly the most serious crisis the government had faced since the abortive Feb. 19 coup. Indeed, it was serious enough for U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor to postpone a trip to Washington until the situation settled down...