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...time when the nation was involved in its biggest and most bitterly disputed venture since Korea. In South Viet Nam, that involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate in Hue to the torch and hoisted the Vietnamese flag. Nine Buddhist monks and nuns, women and teen-agers burned themselves alive to protest the U.S. presence and its support of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the military Directory...
...knoll overlooking the Potomac. "The conflict in Viet Nam," he confessed, "is confusing for many of our people." Yet, strangely enough, the President himself has contributed to that confusion. For weeks now, Administration policymakers on Viet Nam have seemed obsessed, to the exclusion of almost everything else, with the Buddhist crisis. To be sure, the U.S. can hardly ignore the bitter feud between Premier...
...servicemen in Viet Nam are concerned, that is scarcely the case. Since the Buddhist demonstrations first erupted in March, U.S. forces have suffered more dead (994) than they did in the previous comparable period (962). But the war appears to be going far better than the daily headlines, full of demonstrations and burnings, would suggest. In the air, U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs last week streaked over a big ordnance complex at Yen Bay, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi, and leveled it in the biggest, most destructive single strike of the war. On the ground, 1st Cavalry troopers reported...
...Hour of the Tiger just before dawn, when Buddhist monks and nuns rise from their pallets to make their first obeisance, a portly, 55-year-old nun named Thich Nu Thanh Quang appeared in front of the Dieu De Pagoda in South Viet Nam's ancient capital of Hue. Removing her wooden-soled sandals, she sat down on the cement. While a Buddhist photographer took pictures, fellow Buddhists reverently emptied the contents of an American five-gallon jerrican of gasoline over her. She struck a safety match, and flames roared 20 feet into the air, until only...
...decide to attack Hué as he had Danang. The U.S. hoped he would not and arranged at week's end a meeting between Ky and General Nguyen Chanh Thi, whose ouster as I Corps commander last March started South Viet Nam's latest political crisis. Though Buddhist marches and riots raged through Saigon all last week, Tri Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal to Thi despite his ouster...