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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1966
Page
12
Ray Cromley reports from Vietnam that Buddhists are a minority of the population, not the majority claimed. New rural surveys place Buddhists under 20 percent, with militant anti-government factions and their followers totaling well under 10 percent of South Vietnam's people.
A survey shows South Vietnam religion is a mix of folk beliefs Taoism and animism with 42 percent calling themselves Confucianist. Buddhists account for 8 to 10 percent active or passive in the current movement, with Catholics about 14 percent and various other faiths present.
The article notes Hungarian and other Eastern Bloc papers questioning U.S. Vietnam involvement and calling for objectivity. It cites Delmagyarorszag and Dolgorok Lapja editors condemning anti-American rhetoric while stressing citizen skepticism and the limits of protest in red nations. It also reports Dr Isaac Miller becoming Bennett College president in Greensboro Kansas City.
Farmer M. vas den Brock in VEXLO Holland found his father’s golden wedding band buried in a garden, recovered 55 years after it was lost, according to a UPI note. The discovery ends a long family mystery and surfaces in local headlines.
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