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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible reason why not could be the "baby Turks"-junior field officers who were rumored to be angry at Ky for caving in to Buddhist demands, and hence might be plotting a coup. An other could be Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, who seems unlikely to endorse Ky's one-year timetable. Whatever the case, Ky made it clear that although he will honor his pledge to relinquish power to civilians, he will not tolerate a Communist or neutralist regime. "I don't think the elections will result in a Communist or neutralist government," said...
...situation in Viet Nam seems uncomfortably annoying, it is because of our lack of understanding of the hopes, aspirations and desperation of the grassroots Vietnamese behind whom the Buddhists rally. If Thich Tri Quang [April 22] seems wily, militant and unpredictable, it is because of the enigmatic situation he is in, to which we in no small measure have contributed. If Vien Hoa Dao stands as the monument of hope for the Saigon Buddhist masses, Thich Tri Quang most certainly symbolizes the 20th century Vietnamese intellectual desperately attempting to cope with the complexity of modern civilization forced upon...
...acquaintance with the scalp-hunting export of "Americanism" via some missionaries, both religious and political, makes it clear what is so "enigmatic," "devious" and "dangerous" about Thich Tri Quang: he cannot be bought. America will do well to descend from "on top" and get behind him. You say he is "the true native species." How true! Decades of suffering distill the true essence...
Grudging Response. The one Buddhist leader who remained visible was Thich Tri Quang, who left the sudden quiet of Saigon and traveled north to his home territory, where riot and uneasiness still simmer. The five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corp are, in fact, still largely in open rebellion against the Saigon government and completely removed from its control. Pleading for moderation, Tri Quang tried to calm the northern cries for Ky's immediate ouster. Speaking in Hue, he said bluntly: "Your demands do not meet the general consensus, so you must curb them. That is the first...
...Tri Quang repeated this theme in village after village in the I Corps, but the response was grudging. Though he asked for markets and schools to be reopened in Hue, all he got was a reluctant promise from the rebels to forgo any antigovernment demonstrations for the time being. Even so, there was trouble. In the pleasant mountain resort of Dalat, students kidnaped the commander of the local Vietnamese garrison and held him for 24 hours. He came out fighting mad, and the result was a clash between his troops and some 1,000 demonstrators, in which one soldier...