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JAMES E. JACKSON Committee for Viet Nam Action Kentucky State Penitentiary Eddyville, Ky...
...involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate in Hue to the torch and hoisted the Vietnamese flag. Nine Buddhist monks and nuns, women and teen-agers burned themselves alive to protest the U.S. presence and its support of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the military Directory...
...people." Yet, strangely enough, the President himself has contributed to that confusion. For weeks now, Administration policymakers on Viet Nam have seemed obsessed, to the exclusion of almost everything else, with the Buddhist crisis. To be sure, the U.S. can hardly ignore the bitter feud between Premier Ky...
...largely Buddhist nation. This time the immolations were naked political power plays, inspired if not condoned by militant Monk Thich Tri Quang in Hue. While the flames were still flickering over the nun's charred body, Tri Quang summoned the press to make clear his grievance: Premier Ky's successful suppression of the Buddhist-inspired rebellion in nearby Danang, a "crime" against Buddhists equal to the "crime of Hiroshima." Moreover, he said, it had been "masterminded by the United States President...
Tragic & Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary...