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During the Khanh regime, Tri Quang tried to set up a grass-roots Buddhist political party, but the Viet Cong got control of it and used it to provoke riots. Apparently frightened, Tri Quang dissolved his local councils, withdrew from Saigon to Hué, the true spiritual center of Vietnamese Buddhism, where a thousand ceremonies go on in a hundred temples and the sun is obscured by the smoke of millions of burning joss sticks. Here Tri lives in a spare cell in the Tu Dam pagoda, receives crowds of awed visitors, plays chess, and plots his moves against the government...
...inhabitants called, in the native dialect, "The End of the World." But Gbenye announced that Carlson had been "tried" as a spy and sentenced to death. The missionary and the rebels' other white prisoners-60 Americans and 800 Belgians-would be released only after the U.S. and Belgium withdrew all aid to Tshombe's army. Last week Radio Stanleyville reported that Carlson's execution had been delayed in order to negotiate his release and the fate of the other prisoners directly with Washington. The rebels obviously wanted to gain time to get more outside help, presumably from...
Yovicsin said yesterday, "Askold Kohlmann was not dismissed from the football team; he withdrew. We spoke about his situation last week and he agreed it would be better for him under the circumstances to withdraw...
...crash the conference. He was captured by Egyptian security forces, placed in a guest house guarded by paratroopers, and held incommunicado. In retaliation, Congolese policemen, and later troops, sealed off the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in Leopoldville. Nasser then announced that he would hold Tshombe until the Congolese police withdrew from the embassy. Congolese forces withdrew from the embassies on October 8, and Tshombe took off for Paris the next morning...
M.I.T. students are currently counted to determine the total amount of aid for which Massachusetts is eligible--almost $33 million over the next four years--but they receive none of the money, since M.I.T. withdrew from the NDEA program and has not yet rejoined...