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BROOKLYN MUSEUM-Eastern Parkway. Asian art on loan from Collector Ernest Erickson, including Islamic ceramics, Indian miniatures, Nepalese, Thai and Cambodian sculpture, two pages from an 11th century Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript. Through...
...week in Saigon began and ended with death. At its start, another Buddhist, the seventh, chose the now notorious way of protest against President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. Soaked in gasoline, he rode up to a crowded square, struck a spark, and went up in flames before anyone could stop him. At week's end, Diem himself lay dead alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The two men who had fought so long and so stubbornly-against Communism, against their critics, against the Buddhist demonstrators-had been consumed by a fire more slowly and carefully prepared...
...deplored. For this reason, the U.S. can hardly complain about last week's activities, and it would not want to anyway, since the new government could hardly be worse than the Ngos' for either South Vietnam or the United States. All early evidence shows that the Ngos' Buddhist replacements will be much more popular domestically and are more interested in prosecuting the war against the Vietcong guerrillas rather than aggrandizing themselves. Nevertheless, the United States should do whatever it can to encourage the elimination of any residual repression and to promote free elections...
...fairly specific demands: it wants President Ngo Dinh Diem to redeploy his forces according to U.S. military advice, wants him to change the strategic-hamlet program, which the U.S. believes is going too fast to be sound, and wants him to be less autocratic, particularly in regard to the Buddhists. To pressure Diem into doing these things, the U.S. has begun withholding certain kinds of aid. For one thing, Washington has suspended part of a $350,000 monthly subsidy to the elite, 2,000-member Special Forces, who raided Buddhist pagodas last August, until all return to field duties. Actually...
Privileged Guests. In the midst of this psychological warfare between "allies," a seven-nation U.N. delegation arrived in Saigon to look into Buddhist charges of persecution. The mission got a guided tour of two pagodas still under police surveillance, and avoided a third where a demonstration was feared. So far the visitors have met only government-approved monks, and none of those in jail. Facing a ticklish diplomatic problem, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge decided that the fact finders could interview Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang, one of three monks who took refuge in the embassy-if the Diem government...