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Tension developed between the two religious groups recently when Buddhists demanded the execution of Catholic Army Major Dang Sy, who is awaiting trial for giving the orders to fire on Buddhist demonstrators in Hué last year. Earlier the Buddhists had insisted that no mercy be shown to Diem's jailed brother, Ngo Dinh Can - who was executed even though Lodge privately pleaded with Buddhist leaders against the death penalty - or to Can's aide, Lieut. Phan Quang Dong, who was shot before an enthralled crowd of 8,000 in the stadium...
...Major Sy's case, Catholics angrily argued that he had only followed superiors' directives to keep order, and Catholic army officers circulated leaflets warning of serious trouble if Sy was shot. Although the Buddhist hierarchy now speaks of leniency for Sy, fear of a clash persists. Khanh, a Buddhist, has taken pains to antagonize neither the Catholics nor the Buddhists. But he is angered by the Buddhists' lack of support for his regime...
Come to think of it, what would Gary Grant look like stepping out of his Rolls-Royce in a cloud of Sy Devore's lined lint...
...Sy himself dresses humbly, because a good tailor knows his place. He wears black silk-tweed jackets with silver buttons, and black mohair jeans with white double-stitched frontier pockets. He has always resisted his impulse to drive a $40,000 automobile. He scrapes around in a Lincoln Continental instead, and lives in an unostentatious $250,000 house...
...Sy, for all this, is a frustrated man: he has yet to sell Gary Grant so much as an unmonogrammed handkerchief. "He," sighs Sy, "is the only one I want to dress...