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Lyndon Johnson thus perhaps was within reach of a wider public consensus on the Viet Nam war than he had yet been able to achieve. Some Administration officials have hinted that this may presage some kind of peace bid. This week Buddha's birthday offers the President an opportunity to announce an extended bombing pause to determine whether North Viet Nam will really begin meaningful negotiations once its territory is no longer under air attack. There is widespread speculation in Washington that Johnson will seize the opportunity, despite its high political risks and though he is under intense pressure...
With a cease-fire currently under consideration in honor of the May 23 birthday of Buddha, Westmoreland confessed that he is averse to such pauses because Hanoi has consistently exploited them to accelerate its "resupply and infiltration activity." To defeat this enemy, said Westmoreland deliberately, "the only strategy is one of unrelenting -but discriminating-military, political and psychological pressure on his whole structure, and at all levels." Westmoreland has applied this strategy of unrelenting pressure to the allies' own performance as well, and the results have been dramatic...
Leary, dressed in white, sat in a Buddha-like pose on the stage floor and talked for over an hour on the importance of "flipping out." Behind his head two movies and a slide-show ran simultaneously...
...grateful Thais. But Thompson was more than a businessman; he was also a collector of Oriental objets d'art who filled his opulent Bangkok home with priceless porcelains and religious figures. He loved to roam through the jungle, searching for old ruins and occasionally kicking up a Buddha's head. One afternoon last week, when his hosts had retired to rest, he left their house without a word and went for a walk into the jungle. This time, Jim Thompson did not return...
Sunset. A blue Buddha dissolves into a large grey Teddy bear that weeps tears the size of a quarter. A little girl stabs a pig. A little boy urinates. Sixty white gloves run run run across a table. Bits of broken plaster abruptly assemble themselves into a bust of Dante. An egg cracks and marbles tumble out. A python oozes lazily around a large transparent bowl in which a child is huddled. Beside a giant telescope stands an old man, his ears blazing like light bulbs. On a narrow cot, a nude woman sits giggling and jiggling while an enormous...