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Pogrom by the Sea. The Buddhists started yelling that the new government setup denied them sufficient authority, particularly since their man, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, had been ousted as nominal chief of state. Although they had little cause for complaint under Buddhist Khanh's rule, the monks now claimed that too many of Diem's old followers remained in the government. Busily stirring up ancient hatreds between the two faiths was Thich Tri Quang, the monk who enjoyed refuge in the United States embassy last year-an ambitious, probably neutralist and possibly pro-Communist intriguer...
Though it is the first such setup in the U.S., electronic marketing is not all that the housewives' network has to offer. Channel 6 provides 24-hour Big Sisterly surveillance of the lobby which allows a tenant to inspect her own callers before admitting them or to eavesdrop on a neighbor's callers. Switching to Channel 5, a mother can check on the kids in the swimming pool. A fourth camera continuously displays cards printed with news items, classified ads and unclassified gossip...
...Swift and Monocle chose the same targets: politics, pettifoggery and government. "I haven't checked these figures," began Monocle's Gettysburg Address as it might have been written by Dwight Eisenhower, "but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country. I don't like to appear to take sides...
...asked whether any thought was being given to the rights of those who thought integration a bad thing per se. Breeden smiled and said he thought "their rights are being given adequate consideration under the present political setup...
More important, under this setup, aid would be handed out on a more hardheaded basis than it is now. Since Harry Truman launched the Point Four program of aid to underdeveloped countries in 1949, every President has argued that aid to struggling nations serves the national interest because, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it recently, "as others grow in economic strength, so the U.S. will continue to prosper...