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...Stomach. In Danang, Ky's strategy was simple but relentless. His 3,000 loyal troops-marines, airborne and Rangers-slowly drove the rebel force of 1,200 into an eight-block area centering on the east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset, neither side had any stomach for killing: most of the gunfire was purposely aimed high. Government tanks cleared street after street, carefully hosing them with .50-cal. machine-gun fire as they moved forward. Government spotter planes circled the rebel area, dropping leaflets that announced the appointment of General Huynh...
...Dodge City." Back in Danang, the courtesies were over. On the fifth day, the rebels gave up most of their checkpoints, pulled down their multicolored Buddhist flags from the tops of oil barrels, and-except for manning a few streets in the vicinity of the pagodas-spread out through the city as snipers. They were everywhere, firing at anything, and being answered fatally by the heavy firepower of Ky's troops. "Dodge City," grunted a Vietnamese marine. When one grenade-throwing rebel was captured, the loyalist officer in charge of the patrol wasted no words; he whipped...
...skyline once pierced only by the golden spires of the city's 300 Buddhist temples is now saw-toothed with multistory apartment blocks, but there is still a housing shortage in the $250-$500-per-month rental range. Flashing signs proclaim the virtues of Honda cycles, Philips TV sets, Coca-Cola and the Suzie Wong nightclub. For the gourmet, the Two Vikings offers Russian caviar in avocado pears for $5. Any jewelry store on Oriental Avenue has star rubies for the asking-plus $3,250. And instant antique Buddha heads are everywhere available to the unwary tourist, the corrosion...
...Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology, the King is one of the highest of reincarnations, rich in his person in past accumulated virtue. Even in remote parts where spirit-worshiping peasants may never have heard of Thailand, they are likely to know-and revere-the King...
...partaking more from the cup of corruption than is normal even in the Thai tradition of doing business cum government, harvested close to $140 million, kept some 100 "minor wives" (i.e., mistresses). The King, in contrast, is something of a Buddhist puritan, as well as being totally devoted to his Queen-a monogamousness almost incredible in Siamese monarchs. His grandfather, for example, had 92 wives...