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Thus, six months after the Buddhist controversy erupted, South Viet Nam's army, which is largely Buddhist itself, carries on its bitter battle against the Communists. A cautiously optimistic report on the war came last week from Brigadier General Frank A. Osmanski, a U.S. logistics expert in South Viet Nam, who estimated that government forces have stepped up their "intensity of operations" to 21 times what it was a year ago, now launch ten attacks to every one by the Viet Cong. Although the South Vietnamese are suffering more than 1,000 casualties a month, Osmanski added, they...
...Princeton, she complained that "they showed bad manners-very bad manners-at Harvard." But Old Nassau was not much more polite. Some 250 pickets, including six Buddhist monks from a monastery in Freewood Acres, N.J., refugees from Tibet and Russia, turned up to razz her. Protested Mme. Nhu: "You're not helping us by hissing or booing us. Tell us precisely what's wrong with...
Before anyone could say "Buddhist," however, Mme. Nhu whisked off to Washington, spent much of her time there talking about precisely what's wrong with the U.S.* "I have not met your Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge," she told an audience of some 800 which jammed the Women's National Press Club. "But from a distance he seems more mysterious than an Asian." The Kennedy Administration was full of liberals, she said, and while "liberals aren't red yet, they're pink." As for the U.S. decision to withhold some economic aid from the Diem regime...
...Central Intelligence Agency and other American organizations urged Buddhist leaders to overthrow the government last August; 2) the Vietnamese people had lost confidence in the U.S.; and 3) the war with the Viet Cong would end more quickly if the U.S. sent its advisers home but continued to send cash and arms...
Even Diem's severest critics in Saigon concede that there was no serious religious persecution until the present troubles began, and that the Buddhist movement has become a political force dedicated to Diem's overthrow. His regime meanwhile freed 125 Buddhists and sympathizers in Hue who were jailed after last August's riots; how many others are still being held is not known...