Word: buddhists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dalat, 140 miles northeast of Saigon, the government faced a Buddhist problem of a different nature: what to do about an aged nun who, by reputation at least, has been flitting about the countryside working miracles. Known simply as "the Saint," she first appeared, according to rumor, on a mountain-top and began turning water from a dirty stream into miraculously clean holy water. A father reported that she cured his daughter's acne; two little boys who were mutes were taken to her, have since started uttering sounds. As word of her feats spread, Buddhist faithful...
...whole purpose of her trip was to clear up some of the "calumny" aimed at her homeland. She denied that her husband was head of the secret police, said that he has always helped the government without any compensation. Not only were her government's difficulties with the Buddhists created by the Communists, she said, but the first Buddhist monk who had burned himself alive had been drugged and the second clubbed into submission by fellow priests. Mme. Nhu also claimed that she had been misquoted when she allegedly called youthful U.S. military advisers in South Viet Nam "soldiers...
Last week they turned out in response to a tip and covered the latest Buddhist suicide by fire. While the press corps tried to comply with the crowd's pleas-"Take pictures! Tell Mr. Kennedy!"-plainclothesmen moved in to confiscate their cameras. As they tried to protect their equipment, Grant Wolfkill and John Sharkey of NBC and David Halberstam of the New York Times were beaten; all three required hospitalization. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge made a prompt protest to the Vietnamese government...
Anti, Anti, Pro. The story began some months ago, even before the Buddhist uprising brought additional correspondents to the scene. Both wire services' correspondents, the A.P.'s Malcolm Browne and U.P.L's Neil Sheehan, got into heated arguments with their home offices over their coverage. Recently the A.P. told Browne to take a month off to quiet down. There was tension in many a newspaper office-and plenty in Saigon...
Worried by their correspondents' insistent anti-Diem, anti-Nhu, pro-Buddhist, we're-losing-the-war attitude, editors began sending other hands to Saigon for a fresh look. One of the first such visitors was the New York Herald Tribune's Maggie Higgins, who complained: "Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right." She went out into the field in an effort to get "the seldom-told other side of the story," a story, she insisted, "that contrasts violently with the tragic headlines and anti-Diem ferment...