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...factories and farms as well. And thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...
...jigsaw trenches and concrete bunkers in the DMZ itself. There, according to Marine intelligence, a third North Vietnamese division-the 304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot's helmet, then ripped out through the canopy. The pilot made it safely back to his carrier. Strike pilots operating near
...General Khanh, last week announced their backing of the Huong government?a setback for the Buddhists. But at Tam Chau's Buddhist secular institute?a ramshackle compound that has been the Buddhist base ever since laymen, fed up with politicking, chased the political monks out of Saigon's modern Xa Loi pagoda?the mimeograph machines and rumor mills were still grinding away against Huong...
Shops reopened, repairmen restrung power lines blown down by battle, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks emerged from jail or hiding (among them: top Buddhist Thich Tri Quang, who had sought asylum ten weeks ago in the U.S. embassy). At Xa Loi Pagoda, principal scene of last August's government crackdown, thousands prayed. From Poulo Condore prison island and other jails, 150 political prisoners were freed, telling bitter tales of torture...
...Diem government's anti-Buddhist drive. But the Buddhists managed to spirit out of the building the receptacle holding Quang Due's ashes. "The ashes are holy," said one monk. "We would give 15 lives to defend them." Two other monks escaped over the back wall of Xa Loi (pronounced sah loy) into the grounds of the adjoining U.S. Aid Mission, where they were given temporary sanctuary...