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...soon as he could, after a tour of duty as a platoon leader at Fort Campbell, Ky., Carpenter volunteered for duty in Viet Nam. The year was 1963, and there were only 12,000 U.S. troops in that country at the time. An adviser to a South Vietnamese unit, Carpenter saw plenty of action, and came back to the U.S. with the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, a Purple Heart and two wounds inflicted by the Viet Cong...
Spencer J. Bloch, of Ossining, N.Y. (Mathematics); Eric S. Brondfield, of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (Physics); Richard J. Defouw, of Port Washington, N.Y. (Astronomy); Benjamin M. Friedman, of Louisville, Ky. (Economics); William E. Kerstetter Jr., of Greencastle, Ind. (English); E. Perry Link Jr., of Plattsburgh, N.Y. (Philosophy); William G. Quinn Jr., of Chadd's Ford, Pa. (Biology); Charles D. Troob, of Forest Hills, N.Y. (History and Literature), and Robert D. Yee, of San Francisco, Calif. (Biology...
...thrusting his jaw forward like an emaciated Mussolini, "I would be ashamed of the President for this statement that the immolations are useless." But in point of fact, unlike 1963 the grisly suicides thus far have proved largely useless in advancing Tri Quang's campaign to topple the Ky government. The reason: the great majority of Vietnamese Buddhist laymen are clearly unconvinced that the immolations are either justified or necessary, and horror has given way to exasperation and even ennui in a nation accustomed to violent death. "The people look the other way," explained one Vietnamese last week, "because...
...Order. The disenchantment with the militant Buddhists stemmed in part from their insatiable and constantly changing demands. The Ky government first agreed to constitutional general elections, now set for Sept. 11, at the behest of the Buddhists. Having got that, the militants then demanded last week that the ten-general Directory, now at best an interim government, be expanded by the addition of ten civilians. When Ky also agreed to that, the political monks further insisted that the enlarged council have the right to elect a new Chief of State and Premier-meaning that Thieu and Ky would have...
...that point, Ky balked. Tri Quang's response at week's end: threat of a complete Buddhist boycott of the September elections unless Ky quits now. Otherwise, he said, "the Americans and their servants would establish a militaristic national assembly." If Tri Quang's usually pear-shaped tones lost some of their resonance, it was because, for all the week's burnt offerings to the Buddhist cause, Premier Ky still had the upper hand in a nation beginning to weary of pointless civil strife amid a genuine, far more deadly battle for national survival against...