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SAIGON, South Vietnam, Sept 5—“Are you frightened?” the bep.or cook, asked very gently the other morning amid his customary pains to place the breakfast setting neatly on the table. There was a pause; then he added, “I am.”
“This morning as I went to mass,” he said—he goes every morning at 4 A.M.—“J’ai eu beaucoup peur”—I was very frightened.
He was frightened that some demonstration by Buddhists or people who claimed to be Buddhists might prevent his reaching the church.
And he was frightened that a bomb might go off in his path—the most peaceful of scenes in this city and country can suddenly be transformed into a scene of violence and agony by.any of number of malcontents.
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This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.
SAIGON, South Vietnam, Sept 5—“Are you frightened?” the bep.or cook, asked very gently the other morning amid his customary pains to place the breakfast setting neatly on the table. There was a pause; then he added, “I am.”
“This morning as I went to mass,” he said—he goes every morning at 4 A.M.—“J’ai eu beaucoup peur”—I was very frightened.
He was frightened that some demonstration by Buddhists or people who claimed to be Buddhists might prevent his reaching the church.
And he was frightened that a bomb might go off in his path—the most peaceful of scenes in this city and country can suddenly be transformed into a scene of violence and agony by.any of number of malcontents.
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