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...backing Ky, the U.S. in effect was opposing Tri Quang, whose influence in I Corps is paramount. Tri Quang openly accused the U.S. of supplying guns and tanks to Ky to destroy the Buddhists, and last week his mobs responded by burning the USIS library in Hue to the ground. Police and firemen calmly stood by watching. Later, rebel troops were dispatched to guard U.S. installations in Hué-a move hardly calculated to inspire American confidence. At week's end nearly all U.S. civilians were evacuated...
...question that remained was whether Ky would decide to attack Hué as he had Danang. The U.S. hoped he would not and arranged at week's end a meeting between Ky and General Nguyen Chanh Thi, whose ouster as I Corps commander last March started South Viet Nam's latest political crisis. Though Buddhist marches and riots raged through Saigon all last week, Tri Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal...
...impossible to predict what will happen between now and November in Vietnam, but whatever does happen will affect the results of the 1966 congressional elections. The Vietnamese--Catholics, Buddhists, or Viet Cong, General Ky or Ho Chi Minh--are hardly likely to stand still for the next few months and wait for the election returns. It seems safe only to say that the U.S. will not have gained either victory or peace by the time the electorate speaks in November...
...Lyndon Johnson in a dilemma. He can act within a relatively wide range of alternatives, and be sure that the public will approve of what he does; but the same public will almost inevitably dislike the out come. Since the Stanford-Chicago poll was taken the conflicts between the Ky government and the Buddhists, plus the steadily rising number of casualties, have discredited the President's policies. In the latest nationwide poll, only 47 per cent supported Johnson's actions in Vietnam...
That figure may change as Ky continues to assault the pagodas, or if an anti-American government emerges from the promised Vietnamese elections (which seems improbable considering who will conduct them). But the elections in this country will produce only an ambiguous verdict on the war, and a stalemate on domestic issues. If some kind of a satisfactory conclusion is to be found to the war, it will depend on the initiative of the White House, and not on the 1966 elections