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...Clerastianism: That heresy which accepts the supremacy of the clergy in family affairs. Members of the sect submit their infants to ceremonial headwetting while placing the tongue in a ritual position in the cheek, precede their nuptial rites by ancient formulae to which they make mental reservations, and bury their ancestors only after a ceremony which they believe will ensure respectability if not immortality...
...Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Premier Diem's 12,000 incoming Nationalist troops had to get effective control of a remote swampland, criss-crossed by bayous, devastated by war, undermined by Communist stay-behind agents, infiltrated by hostile troops of the Hoa Hao, a religious sect. Diem's Nationalists also had to start making convincing democratic answers to Camau's ten years of Communist indoctrination...
...state, Bao Dai. Communist agents had urged villagers not to listen to Diem's Nationalist talk, not to accept his food parcels, not to put their fish on the market, thereby forcing prices up. Yet Diem's confident beginning soon showed remarkable gains. The Hoa Hao sect, outnumbered, lay quiet. Out of the swamps came 1,000 deserters from the Communist army, to join Diem...
Convinced that Premier Diem, with his accent on austere morality, is going to be in power for a while, Saigon's powerful hoodlum sect, the Binh Xuyen, agreed meekly last week to abandon its golden empire of sin, at least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget...
...Protestant Anabaptist sect founded in 1528 by Jacob Hutter in the Swiss Tyrol...