Word: tam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than a week before that statement, Buddhist Spokesman Thich Tam Chau had flatly announced that the South Vietnamese government of Premier Tran Van Huong "will have to go." Three days after the statement, a Buddhist communique called the Premier "stupid, a traitor, a fat, stubborn man without any policy." In Saigon, Huong replied pluckily: "If the situation gets out of hand, we must again use force. They simply want to control the government. The Viet Cong are also trying to overthrow this government. We can't allow the Buddhist leaders to do this for them...
South Viet Nam's military, including General Khanh, last week announced their backing of the Huong government?a setback for the Buddhists. But at Tam Chau's Buddhist secular institute?a ramshackle compound that has been the Buddhist base ever since laymen, fed up with politicking, chased the political monks out of Saigon's modern Xa Loi pagoda?the mimeograph machines and rumor mills were still grinding away against Huong...
There was more opportunity for trouble over the weekend at the 15-year-old martyr's funeral, but so far Tam Chau had not received anything resembling mass support...
From his two-telephone desk in the Buddhist temple, which has the bustling air of a campaign headquarters, wispy Tam Chau complained that the Buddhists had been slandered. He added that to fight the Reds, the country must have "a government supported by the people"-an argument that might carry more weight if the Buddhists ever adopted an active role against the Viet Cong. He also announced a passive-resistance campaign against the government. But a lot of Vietnamese were apparently tiring of Buddhist intrigue...
...Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944), Citation (1948), Ponder (1949), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege (1957), Tim Tam...