1.
LS Procession.
0.07

2.
MS Ditto.
0.11

3.
MS Dragon procession.
0.15

4.
LS Procession.
0.20

5.
MLS Dragon dance.
0.23

6.
LS Palanquin carried by young men.
0.27

7.
MS Ditto.
0.31

8.
MS Young girls preceding palanquin.
0.38

9.
MS Palanquin carried by young girls.
0.43

10.
CU Spectators.
0.46

11.
MS Devotee with spear through cheeks.
0.49

12.
CU Ditto.
0.50

13.
LS Procession.
1.02



Initials LSW/V/AW/PB



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Background: Buddhist refugees from North Vietnam held their annual Spring parade in Saigon, South Vietnam, recently, praying for their compatriots north of the 17th. parallel-arbitrary division between Communist and non-communist regions.

Marchers carry images of Buddha on a decorated throne, swords, and sweetly-burning joss-sticks. In the course of the parade some marchers, seized by religious ecstasy, fall into a trance. Men in this state pierce themselves with steel spears, in return for some divine favour.

The procession goes on for hours, ending at a Buddhist temple.