Word: trying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most timely chapters in Lacouture's book asks, "What do the Buddhists want?" The Buddhist organization has attempted to eliminate from the country all influences foreign to it such as Catholicism and materialism. They want to have Buddhism proclaimed the state religion and religious leaders like Tri Quang, the "conscience" of the future South Vietnam...
Next the Catholics? For South Viet Nam and the U.S., Tri Quang's triumph may well produce a painful time of testing until elections are held sometime between July and September. For one thing, it is the time of the monsoons, the season for the enemy's annual offensive, when the weather protects him from airpower. U.S. firepower is more than adequate to blunt any major Red drive, but a Vietnamese army embroiled in political maneuvering is less than the best ally. Moreover, fully 50% of the army's officers are Catholic, and already the Catholics are restive over...
...Hunger. Beyond that is the question of what Tri Quang will do if, as seems likely, a Buddhist-based government emerges from the elections. For all he says today, the specters of Communism and neutralism still hover over him from the past. The U.S. is inclined to take him at his word, let him prove his much avowed concern for the people of Viet Nam. Twenty years of war have left the Vietnamese with a desperate hunger for national identity, that no government since independence in 1954 has been able to provide. If he chooses to, Tri Quang...
...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...
...unusual private interview, one of the relatively few he has granted to Western newsmen, Thich Tri Quang talked for an hour last week with TIME Correspondents Frank McCulloch and James Wilde at his Saigon residence, a room in a maternity clinic. The interpreter was Than Trong Hue, a Vietnamese member of the TIME staff, who addressed the monk with the "venerable" title reserved for the Buddhist clergy. Tri Quang was clad in a hospital gown, white pantaloons, and brown leather sandals...