Word: tried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough, well-trained Viet Cong agents helped stir the mobs. Yet the demonstrations were directly inspired by a politically astute, professedly anti-Communist Buddhist prelate, Thich (meaning venerable) Tri Quang, a ruthless infighter who has been described by former Ambassador Maxwell Taylor as "the Makarios of Southeast Asia...
...called for civil service employees -and like others in recent weeks, was happily honored by the citizens of Hué. Indeed, Hué and the five northernmost provinces of the 1 Corps, in which it is the principal city, are virtually under the control of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang and the Hué students. Though Ky's government remained in control in Saigon, the Hué infection was all too evident...
...Quest of Power. What the Buddhists say they want is a constitution, an elected civilian government and a National Assembly. Ky has told them they can have all three-in good time. The extremist Buddhists led by Hué's Thich Tri Quang are unwilling to wait, even though ousting the generals now would cut off the Buddhists' best chance of getting a constitution. The bonzes are maneuvering to get the Assembly that will draw up the new constitution chosen from provincial and city councils-which Buddhists control. Ky has so far refused, and with good reason...
Meanwhile the Communist agitators are using the Buddhists' mobs for all they are worth, and at week's end the demonstrations boiled up dangerously. Some 5,000 turned out in Hué as a warm-up for the "Week of Anger" Tri Quang scheduled in the city this week. Another 10,000 marched in Danang. Government offices were looted in Qhi Nhon, where 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers-among them several senior officers-demonstrated. In Saigon, Buddhist students brandishing bicycle chains and sticks took to the streets, overturning autos, throwing rocks and chanting "Yankees go home...
FRAP was obviously working along the guidelines of the recent Tri-Continental Conference in Havana, which recommended stepped-up labor trouble as a means to Red takeover. Since January, strikes in the Chilean copper mines have cost Frei's government $60 million, and the mild-mannered President got tough. Going before the nation on radio and television, he angrily declared that FRAP was out to "economically paralyze the nation. We are witnessing a premeditated act of subversion...