Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government cordon was nearly closed. Ky's marines, backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away, the foreign press, mostly American, was taking a breather on the cement terrace of the Press Center overlooking the Danang River...
...with a bandaged arm. They had a message: the press was invited to Tinh Hoi at once for an announcement. Grabbing cameras and note pads, some 35 newsmen set out for the pagoda, passing first through government lines, then the firing pits of the Tinh Hoi compound filled with rebel soldiers. Among them were TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William McWhirter...
...screaming beside her. On another stretcher lay a young woman with two bullet holes in her back, freshly wounded and brought into Tinh Hoi for medical treatment. Torches illuminated a chamber where 26 corpses lay under Buddhist flags and swarms of flies. But there was no sign of a rebel spokesman or of the promised announcement. As the minutes passed and night fell outside, the newsmen's suspicions mounted. As Correspondents Prager and McWhirter told...
...Several times we asked when the announcement would come. A Buddhist Boy Scout told us in broken English to wait another five minutes. A man in a green uniform blandly assured us that it would deal with the reasons for the rebel fight against the Ky government. That hardly seemed worth summoning us to the pagoda, and it suddenly occurred to us that it might very well be a trap. If the rebels feared a government attack on Tinh Hoi, what better way to forestall it than by arranging the presence of three dozen foreign reporters inside the pagoda...
...weeks ago," said one Saigon expert, "but two weeks from now? It is a rash, rash man who would try to predict." For one thing, Buddhist Political Leader Thich Tri Quang was still in Hué, South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, which was in rebel hands...