COMPLETE PLANS: A group of Knights of Columbus are
shown making the final plans for its second annual Teen
Age Talent Show which will be held Feb. 27 at the Greens
boro War Memorial Auditorium. They are left to right: Robert
Hanson, George Breathett, Grand Knight Bill Frawley, and
Don Bonnett. (Photo courtesy of Jack Moebes, Greensboro
Record) ____
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classes and cultural enrichment
programs.
HUBBELL WHOSE organiza
tion is lukewarm about dual en
rollment or shared-time programs,
told the House committee that
“wholesale application of shared
time across the nation is an im
possibility.”
He said no public school dis
trict should be empowered to adopt
a shared-time program without
full consultation with, and the con
sent of, local non-public school
officials.
In other testimony, the Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union gave to
the subcommittee (Feb. 1) a de
tailed series of objections to the
bill’s provisions for shared-time
and shared services.
LAWRENCE SPEISER, director
of the ACLU’s Washington office,
charged that “as it is written the
bill could authorize the most dan
gerous subversion of the constitu
tional principle of Church-State
separation since James Madison’s
famous remonstrance set the di
rections of American religious lib
erty in 1786.”
Speiser, who stressed that a
major debate is under way in
ACLU’s ranks about the merits of
dual enrollment programs, said
that dispite ACLU’s lack of a final
stand, it did see a number of areas
in which shared-time might violate
Church-State separation.
HE WARNED THAT the “inter
institutional relationships” that
may develop from cooperating pub
lic and private school officials
“creates a risk that public services
will be extended further than to
the student — to the parochial
school itself.”
Speiser also said that the law
should not require • public school
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SPEISER WAS critical of the
provision which allows the U.S.
Commissioner of Education to deal
directly with private, nonprofit
schools seeking Federal assistance
for their pupil’s textbook and li
jrary needs.
The commissioner would be em
powered to do this if state laws
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Speiser said. “If the people of a
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gious education, then it is a viola
tion of all sound Federal-State
relations for the Federal govern
ment to negate that by going over
and around the State.”
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who were given asylum in the
U.S. embassy here in September,
1963, during the last phase of
President Ngo dinh Diem’s regime.
He told this correspondent once
that he had studied English at the
Vietnamese-American Association
and during his sojourn in the em
bassy.
Now he came back to the em
basy leading a crowd bearing ban
ners with these inscriptions,
among others:
“The U.S. Must Assume Entire
Responsibility for Huong.”
“The Americans Must Not Sup
port a Reactionary and Anti-Revo
lutionary and Anti-Vietnam-Peo
ple Government.”
FORMER PRIME MINISTER
Huong is not a Christian. His
government, which was only pro
visional, did nothing against the
Buddhists or anybody else, except
the communists, during its less
than 3 months of existence. The
political bonzes attacked it as soon
as it was formed. They were par
ticularly indignant because he an
nounced, at the start the politics
and religion must be kept sepa
rate.
In 1963 the same faction of Bud
dhists led the agitation ending in
the American-promoted coup that
overthrew the late President Diem,
a Catholic. Now they bracket to
gether Prime Minister Huong and
Diem, with whom he disagreed,
denouncing them equally as “reac
tionary and dictatorial govern
ments, whose policies are to ex
terminate Buddhism ...”
No case, example or argument
of any kind has been produced to
prove .that anybody is trying to
“exterminate” Buddhism.
The U.S. embassy here has had
bonzes as vistors before, but in
different circumstances.
THICH TRI QUANG, one of the
most militant, bitterly anti-Catho
lic, and two of his colleagues (in
cluding Thich Nhat Thien) enjoy
ed asylum in the embassy for two
months in 1963.
Last Sept. 13, when there was
an attempted coup in Saigon,
Thich Tri Quang again took ref
uge in the embassy. This time he
came disguised as a Catholic priest,
wearing a black cassock. With
him was Thich Tam Chau, anoth
er political bonze, wearing a base
ball-type cap, sweater and slacks.
They left the embassy that after
noon and went to a private house
in the city, still under the wing
of U.S. officials.
On Jan. 16 Thich Tri Quang and
two other bonzes were received by
Ambassador Taylor and Depu
ty Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson.
Tri Quang repeated his determi
nation to bring down Prime Minis
ter Huong and his cabinet.
On Jan. 19 the political counsel
Requiem for Paul Hubert
Paul Demming Hubert, 76, of 222
S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro,
died recently at Wesley Long Hos
pital, where he was taken after
suffering an attack at home.
He was born in Carlyle, HI.,
and had lived in Guilford County
41 years. Hubert was a retired
farmer and cattle breeder; he op
erated Piedmont Dairy Farm
from 1924 to 1957.
He was a parishioner of Our
Lady of Grace Roman Catholic
Church, a past Grand Knight of
the Knights of Columbus, and a
member of BPOE Elks Lodge No.
602.
lor of the embassy and a Vietna
mese-speaking assistant drove to
the Buddhist headquarters in an
official embassy car, having the
U.S. seal on the door, to talk to
Tri Quang. He informed them of
the “hunger strike” that he and
four others intended to start on
the morrow.
Members of the political section
of the embassy have been seeing
these antigovernment bonzes fre
quently.
All these parleys have apparent
ly done no good for either the
U.S. or the hard-pressed Vietna
mese government, though they
have doubtless given “face” to the
seditious bonzes.
THE AIM of the agitation by
the political bonzes seemed to be:
—to scare the U.S. government
into putting pressure on the then
Prime Minister Huong to resign
and make way for a government
acceptable to the bonzes.
—or to cause enough disorder to
provoke a military coup favorable
to them.
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