Word: tried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Banana for Dessert. The new as sembly will scarcely be dominated by military types; of 55 uniformed candidates, only 20 were elected. Of the remaining assemblymen, 34 are Buddhists (though none is a known representative of the militant Vien Hoa Dao group that tried to overthrow the government last spring), and fully 30 are Catholics, who make up only 10% of the population. That was enough to end the 100-day fast of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. From his quarters in a Saigon maternity clinic, Tri Quang promptly labeled the election a fraud. Then he ate a banana...
...operating room at Danang East, two green-gowned Navy surgeons wielded their scalpels as Medical Corps technicians hovered around the table. But the patient was not one of the U.S. Marines for whose after-battle care the big Navy hospital was primarily in tended. She was Hoi Pham Tri, a tiny, frail Vietnamese girl...
...case of Hoi Pham Tri illustrates the growing, voluntary response of U.S. military doctors and corpsmen to the medical problems of civilians. In the slack times between treating service men's wounds and illnesses, many doctors in the three medical corps have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just...
...intelligence was fascinating. The 324th Division of the North Vietnamese army had crossed the border, it said, and had massed in Quang Tri province next to the 17th parallel's demilitarized zone. It was the first full division ever reported to have come down, it numbered 8,000-10,000 men, and its apparent mission was to deliver a sudden and overwhelming attack upon the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, including the old imperial city...
There were signs last week that it may eventually be the Buddhists who crack. Everything else having failed, Buddhist Ringleader Thich Tri Quang went on a hunger strike, by week's end had lapsed into a near coma that at least served the purpose of keeping him quiet. Thich Tam Chau, spokesman of the Buddhist hierarchy's moderate wing, publicly broke with Tri Quang and the militants. Tri Quang, said Tam Chau, has "no authority to promulgate any decisions" of the hierarchy, adding, "I am not for bringing Buddha into the streets." And in a swift, virtually bloodless...