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...Diem government, the crackdown obviously seemed necessary to protect the regime-and enforce the law of the land-against Buddhist defiance. But it was brutal, nonetheless, and it aroused a strong new wave of sympathy for the Buddhists. It also put U.S. policy in South Viet Nam, which involves the lives and safety of 14,000 U.S. troops, into an agonizing dilemma. While often unhappy with Diem, the U.S. has proceeded on the assumption that it was safer to stick with him than risk the chaos that might surround a switch to a new, unknown and unpredictable regime...
Boola, Boola. Until last week, prodded by the U.S., Diem had displayed an apparent willingness to conciliate the Buddhists. Feeling betrayed by Diem's crackdown, one ranking U.S. embassy officer said: "All the time they've been preaching conciliation to us, they've evidently been planning just the opposite." The Buddhist crisis had begun as a religious one, but gradually turned into a major political conflict. The Buddhists are far from passive martyrs. Their religious and social demands-a fairly modest package demanding full equality with the country's Roman Catholics-had never sounded crucial, especially...
Rope Trick. The crackdown in Saigon was duplicated all over South Viet Nam, and more than 1,000 people were imprisoned. In the Buddhist stronghold of Hué, the approach of government troops was signaled by the beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing...
...that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened the expenses of their employees, and they are not about to liberalize them again." If so, Caplin has won some powerful allies to help him take the cheating out of the expense account...
...having second thoughts over unleashing a wave of neo-Stalinism? Was the delay caused by the reported heart attack of the party's second secretary, Hard-Liner Frol Kozlov (TIME, May 10), whose tough hand might be needed on the spot to draft the orders for a cultural crackdown? Was it another ploy against Red China...