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...national minorities, and conspiring with "French colonialists" to neutralize South Viet Nam. When Quat tried to reshuffle his Cabinet, Suu, who backed Quat's foes, vetoed the shifts. The Catholics took to the streets, and Quat feared that he might soon be faced with madness comparable to the Buddhist riots that led to Ngo Dinh Diem's downfall in 1963. At midweek he called on the country's 19 top generals to "mediate" the crisis...
Phan Huy Quat, whom they accuse of pro-Buddhist leanings. Cops fired into the air-and a bit lower-while the demonstrators burned an official...
...chips on Diem," Mecklin writes. "We were stuck with an all-or-nothing policy. It had to work, like a Catholic marriage or a parachute." But when the Buddhist crisis ignited in May 1963, the policy went up in flames. What began as a seemingly simple dispute over the display of religious flags soon became a cleverly conducted campaign to unseat Catholic Diem. U.S. reporters fanned the flames with pro-Buddhist stories that enraged Diem, who refused to believe that Washington did not control the press in the same...
Smoldering distrust of the U.S. became defiance. When U.S. Charge d'Affaires William Trueheart formally threatened Diem with the statement that the U.S. would "dissociate" itself from the Saigon government's actions unless anti-Buddhist repressions ceased, Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu respond ed by raiding the Buddhist pagodas. That, in Mecklin's informed opinion, was the turning point. "The pagoda raids made it categorically impossible for the U.S. to try to go on with the regime," he writes. "Its handling of the Buddhist issue conclusively discredited the regime's claim to the political...
...Road. But Quat has spent long, private hours with Buddhist leaders in an attempt to lower the octane of their disputes. Perhaps as a result, the Buddhists seem willing to give the government a chance: whereas immolation was once a favorite device for advertising Buddhist grievances, bonzes recently snatched away the matches of a gasoline-drenched Buddhist...