South Viet Nam: Monk Without a Cause

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Going It Alone. Tri Quang seemed unconcerned about the fate of his newest ally, Presidential Runner-up Truong Dinh Dzu, who found himself languishing in jail last week. After his conviction on currency and bad-check counts last month, Dzu had accused the Vietnamese judiciary of being merely "an instrument of the government." The police invited him down to talk about such judicial matters as libel and slander and, when he did not appear, picked him up for "questioning." Dzu's Front for Democratic Struggle, a tenuous coalition of other losers, had met with Tri Quang to consider joining action against the government. But, keeping watch outside the Presidential Palace at week's end, Tri Quang was going it alone—which is clearly how he fancies himself running South Viet Nam.