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Revolution swept the sunny, tropical Vietnamese city of Saigon last week, shaking and straining the antiCommunist, anti-French government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The Binh Xuyen gangster sect, supported by French colonials, started a bloody uprising and was put down. While the fires of civil war guttered out in the refugee-crowded streets of Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), a Vietnamese general, supported by French colonials, tried a midnight coup d'état and almost succeeded. Locked in this squalid conflict were the precarious hopes of Vietnamese nationalism, the ambitions of French colonials and the committed prestige...
...absence of total reassurance from the U.S., these had the sound of late and futile words. The bristling headquarters of the Binh Xuyen gangster sect (which runs both the police and the prostitutes) lay only 800 yards from Freedom Palace; whenever loyal troops tried to move against the Binh Xuyen last week, a French general interposed: "Remember the truce, messieurs." Yet in Paris, a high French official privately assured newsmen that Diem could not put down the sects because his troops would refuse to fight...
...upon Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), cooling the weather but not the city's jittery nerves. There were quiet Buddhist ceremonies in Chinese pagodas, a pink and white wedding at the cathedral, and an outward pose of calm. But heavily armed gangsters and cops of the Binh Xuyen sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol, but they were restrained from getting...
...about an absolute. He has no training to talk about the existence ... of God." Philosophy Professor Henle also does not expect "scientists to have sufficient wisdom to make moral judgments about the use of the atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last week joined office clerks in the "Temple of the Paramount Summit Labor Union" and drew up a contract complete with a strike clause. Main purpose: job security and better...
...sects say they are religious; one is political. Cao Dai is a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism with its own Pope and cardinals, and a Vatican headquarters 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Cao Dai has an expanding pantheon that includes Clemenceau, Victor Hugo and Joan of Arc and, in nomination pending his death, Sir Winston Churchill. Its Pope, Pham Cong Tac, was formerly a Saigon customs clerk. Hoa Hao is a rowdy sect of dissident Buddhists professing its belief in abstinence and prayer. Its founder, the late Huynh Phu So, augmented his fame as a healer when...