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...vagaries of Vietnamese politics that the Buddhists, having forced the Ky government to accede to their demands for national elections by September, now found themselves with a greater stake than just about anyone in keeping Ky around so that he can keep his promises. They also discovered that the unrest that they had unleashed was far harder to calm than it had been to foment...
...genitals made this group's day. They nervously sat through Eaux d' Artifice, a film disappointingly about fountains. The old gentleman, who apparently had seen Scorpio Rising before, attempted to quiet the group's unrest. "Never you mind," he told his followers, squinting down a neighboring dress with his one good eye, "They'll be on that screen (snicker) in the Lord's good time." The religious reference disturbed a young rebel next to him, who sank back in his seat combing his 1956 ducktail, and angrily staring at the more Modish haircuts of the collegians...
...removal. When some of the I Corps officers and men in Danang began agitating for Thi's return to command, Ky was confident that Tri Quang would lie low and let Saigon settle the matter among soldiers. Instead, Tri Quang seized on the spark of unrest over Thi's ousting to fan the flames of a Buddhist call for a return to civilian rule...
...South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their ranks often swelled by uniformed Vietnamese servicemen. A month in the gathering, South Viet Nam's storm of political unrest had erupted in a hail of intermittent violence and near civil...
Initially, the Buddhist-inspired demonstrations in the I Corps area and Saigon were mild and orderly. But the unrest spread steadily, drawing up the civil servants, the military, laborers-all disaffected by South Viet Nam's galloping inflation and wartime insecurity, by wild rumors and even by the growing American presence in Viet Nam. At first Ky kept hands off so as "not to provide any martyrs" among the demonstrators, but the unrest gauge rose from troublesome to serious to grave. Two weeks ago, feeling its credibility as a government at stake, Saigon broke up a demonstration with tear...