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363-07158 to 363-07162.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-07158 to 363-07162
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Title
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Article about anti-American Buddhist protest groups threatening to burn U.S. Marine bases
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Description
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Keever's title: "Tensions flare between U.S. Marines and Buddhist dissidents in Northern Provinces", article about anti-American Buddhist protest groups threatening to burn U.S. Marine bases
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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(Morgan Gandy) SAIGON 27200 (UPIS)--Powerful anti-war, anti-American sub-currents sweeping under Vietnamese current political crisis are slowly undermining the [deletion: very] foundation of the American United States military presence here, reliable political sources indicate. This dramatic, explosive new dimension to the political war came into focus Saturday when extremist [deletion: Buddhist youth] possibly procommunist [insertion: struggle committee] issued an ultimatum to the American Marines and threatened to burn American military installations after at least one American [XXXX indicating deletion] Marine, [XXXX indicating deletion] pulled down an anti-American banner in the ancient capital city of Hue, the hotbed of [deletion: revolt and] anti-government revolt four hundred miles northve saigon. [XXXX indicating deletion] Informed sources Dund Sunday indicated that throughout the [deletion: day] Saturday political officers in the American Embassy here worked feverishly throughout the day to avert the [deletion: or] a violent outbreak of [deletion: the] anti-Americanism, anti-Marine violence when the students demanded the American Marines replace the sign. At the end of the day, however, Saturday, however, the Buddhist-inspired students accepted the official app apology of the American [deletion: Marine] colonel who is [deletion: in command of the stationed in Phu Bai, on the outskirts of Hue.] an advisor to the [illegible] division commander in the area. Later, the student committee announced on Hue Radio that the Unistates [deletion: Marine Corps] military apology had been officially accepted and today the incident seems to have [deletion: passed on] died down. (More--Miller--BD) first add--morgan gandy--saigon x x x died down x x x. Informed sources said that the banner torn down by the American Marine was [deletion: printed in] painted in English and accused the American government of obstructing the [XXXX indicating deletion] election of a national legislative council, [XXXX indicating deletion] which appears to be one of the inter-related demands of the anti-government struggle committees. [XXXX indicating deletion] American official sources “assumed” that the American Marine was reprimanded. Some of the Buddhist satellite struggle committees, [deletion: which] for almost two weeks have been waging anti-government [insertion: [illegible]] demonstrations and a general strike [deletion: of] in the [deletion: nor] the two important northern cities in Hue and Danang. [deletion: Some of] Reliable sources indicate that some of the persons agitating in the northern provinces are pro-Communist [insertion: or Communist subversives]; some reliable Vietnamese Buddhist sources indicate that as much as eighty per cent of the anti-government political agitation is Communist penetrated, manipulated and perhaps [deletion: led] directed. (More--Miller--BD) second add--morgan gandy--saigon x x x perhaps directed x x x The first official demonstration of the United Buddhist Association, a silent march of some fifteen to twenty thousand soldiers, Vietnamese soldiers, youth, civil servants, police and citizenry, [XXXX indicating deletion] in Hue Sunday, also [deletion: personally] attacked Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky by name in one of their official banners, accusing him and chief of state general Ngue Nguyen Van Thieu of “obstructing the [deletion: form] election of the National Assembly.” Reliable political sources here foresee [deletion: the only the beginning of] this current political crisis to be only the “warming up” stage of more violent, turbulent anti-Americanism, which has quietly and subtly been creeping into both the official statements and speeches of the Buddhist leaders, as well as the [XXXX indicating deletion] sub-rosa, quasi-Buddhist satellite elements. (More--Miller--BD) third add--morgan gandy--saigon x x x satellite elements x x x These sources equate the Buddhist-led demands for a an “immediate” election of a legislative assembly with virtually tossing the reins of power into hands of pro-neutralist elements, [deletion: whom] and possibly clandestine Communist agents. The situation is considered grave, but norptnot totally [XXXX indicating deletion] disasterous since their current appraisal is [XXXX indicating deletion] the Communist-led National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam [deletion: coul] does notrptnot [deletion: havd] at this time have the [deletion: current] strength to seize overt [insertion: political] power in Saigon [deletion: at this time]. The anti-American feeling, [deletion: sparked by] combined with pro-Communist agitation, is considered to be running particularly high in Hue and Danang where student and civilian speakers are calling openly and overtly for the American troops to leave Vietnam. The situation there is equated by Vietnamese political sources as being [XXXX indicating deletion] similar to the Communist political strategy called “the state of general uprising,” [deletion: the] but the popular uprising has still been localized to the five northern provinces. [deletion: but] Norptnot violence or bloodshed has yet erupted. In Saigon, the anti-American tide is quietly and slowly rising. Buddhist leaders, at official “sermons”, and their students at seminars today accused the Americans of dumping surplus goods in Vietnam rather than giving goods which helped develop the local economy, charged that the American military scrip currency violated Vietnamese sovereignty, asked the Americans to be “real friends, but notrptnot to boss Vietnam,” and that a democratic government should be elected to determine whether to continue the war or try to achieve peace. (More--Miller--BD) fourth add--morgan gandy--saigon x x x achieve peace x x x. One of the twohundred some students at a Buddhist Yourth Youth seminar [XXXX indicating deletion] Sunday morning called for Hanoi and South Vietnamese authorities to settle the war through diplomativ diplomatic or political means. Slowly, the total nature of the war in the minds of [XXXX indicating deletion] increasing numbers of the Vietnamese people is being transformed from a Communist versus anti-Communist struggle into aye Vietnamese versus American struggle. In short, the tenor of the Buddhist speeches [XXXX indicating deletion] blame the American troops rather than the Communists for precipitating the war. (Endit-[deletion: deepe] miller--BD)
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Date
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1966, Mar. 31
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Subject
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Vietnam (Republic), 1961-1975; Buddhism and politics; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Religious aspects--Buddhism; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Buddhist monks; United States. Marine Corps; Military bases
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
