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...Education, Nguyen Xuan Phong took the portfolio for Social Welfare, and Colonel Ho Van Di Hinh became Youth Minister. Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu Vien added the new Culture Ministry to his duty roster. Onetime Economics Minister Truong Thai Ton moved over to the Ministry of Industry, and Nguyen Kien Thien An became Minister of Commerce...
...institute and nominally the senior monk in Viet Nam, comes by for lunch. Tam Chau, 44, once considered Tri Quang's rival, likes such creature comforts as his chauffeured Mercedes sedan. Tri Quang twits him about it, himself takes pedicabs about town. In and out is Thich Thien Minh, Tri Quang's former schoolmate who is now his first lieutenant and boss of the Bud dhist Youth, which provides the backbone of Tri Quang's demonstrations...
...sooner had last week's crisis been resolved than out to the 48 Buddhist chapters in the provinces went a cable: "Stop the struggle movement because the demands of the Buddhists of Viet Nam have been met by the authorities." Tri Quang, Tam Chau and Thien Minh all signed it. To the more militant chapter at Hué, a special message was sent: "Hold any action until the arrival of Thich Tri Quang." Then, hunkering down on the floor, Tri Quang personally reined in a delegation of monks pressing for more action. "We must honor our words," he said loftily, adding...
...Duong Thien Dong, president of the Saigon Medical Students Association, said that the present government exerts less control than did that of Ngo Dinh Diem, and that he thinks students "no longer trust in one personality." But he added the youthfulness of members of Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky's administration had attracted the respect of the student movement...
...next victims. This month for example, a Viet Cong platoon entered Phu Long hamlet in Binh Thuan province, killed an old man and raped two women. A Catholic priest and four civilians were kidnaped from a church, and all civilians were forced to leave the area. In Thua Thien province, the Viet Cong stopped some buses, abducted a nurse and two girls. In Pleiku province they fired on a bus, killed the driver and wounded ten passengers...