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There was more opportunity for trouble over the weekend at the 15-year-old martyr's funeral, but so far Tam Chau had not received anything resembling mass support...
From his two-telephone desk in the Buddhist temple, which has the bustling air of a campaign headquarters, wispy Tam Chau complained that the Buddhists had been slandered. He added that to fight the Reds, the country must have "a government supported by the people"-an argument that might carry more weight if the Buddhists ever adopted an active role against the Viet Cong. He also announced a passive-resistance campaign against the government. But a lot of Vietnamese were apparently tiring of Buddhist intrigue...
...Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944), Citation (1948), Ponder (1949), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege (1957), Tim Tam...
...Montealegre), soprano (Jennie Tourel), the New England Conservatory Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp. Charles Munch, God bless him, conducted...
...Tam's suicide and the Saigon trial served once again to stoke South Viet Nam's smoldering religious and political crisis. Last month Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Due burned himself to death on a Saigon street corner in protest against restrictions imposed on the country's 12 million Buddhists by Diem's predominantly Roman Catholic regime. After a series of nationwide demonstrations,* the government, under U.S. prodding, yielded to Buddhist demands and granted them equal religious and political standing with the nation's 1,500,000 Catholics. But influenced by his brother, Ngo Dinh...