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Tragic & Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary...
...question that remained was whether Ky would decide to attack Hué as he had Danang. The U.S. hoped he would not and arranged at week's end a meeting between Ky and General Nguyen Chanh Thi, whose ouster as I Corps commander last March started South Viet Nam's latest political crisis. Though Buddhist marches and riots raged through Saigon all last week, Tri Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal...
...Scared to Fight? Even in the rebellious I Corps area around Danang and Hue, the majority of the Vietnamese troops were still operating aggressively and effectively. Though the 1st Division-loyal to its dissident, dismissed commander, Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi-has all but stopped operations for the moment, the 2nd Division at Quang Ngai is fighting hard and well. Countrywide, the Vietnamese have increased their weekly number of battalion-size operations from 51 in January to 77 in the first week of May. Simultaneously, U.S. forces have mounted more small-unit and battalion-scale operations than ever before...
...Nguyen Cao Ky and the other generals of the ruling Directory were also notably quiet, making no speeches and rarely appearing in public. Their only visible act last week was the dismissal of the head of the national police, an appointee of ousted Buddhist I Corps Commander Nguyen Chanh Thi, who was replaced by one of Ky's loyal Air Force colonels. The Directory's caution was probably well-advised. Coup rumors were even thicker than usual, and Viet Nam's Catholics showed signs that they may pick up the troublemaking where the Buddhists left...
...testing of Tri Quang may come sooner than that. At week's end 2,500 rioters, ignoring the Saigon accord, swept through Danang and publicly burned the Ky proclamation for elections. They demanded that the generals step down immediately. With ousted General Thi openly agreeing and much of I Corps in rebellion against Saigon's control, Thich Tri Quang prepared this week to fly back home as a "peace envoy" to Hué, where lies his chief strength. Whether as peace envoy or missionary of discontent, he will more and more bear on his slim and restless shoulders the welfare...