The protests did not garner any Presidential sympathy for the journalists , but instead resulted in trouble from their media employers . UPI 's Tokyo office criticised Sheehan for trying to " make Unipress policy " on his own when " Unipress must be neutral , neither pro-Diem , pro-Communist or pro-anybody else " . Emanuel Freedman , the foreign editor of '' The New York Times '' reprimanded Halberstam , writing " We still feel that our correspondents should not be firing off cables to the President of the United States without authorization . " The incident provoked reactions from both the Buddhists and the Diem regime . A monk called on the US embassy to send a military unit from the American advisors already present in Vietnam to Xá Lợi Pagoda , the main Buddhist temple in Saigon and the organisational hub of the Buddhist movement . The monk claimed that the attack on Arnett indicated that Xá Lợi 's monks were targets of assassination by Nhu 's men , something that Trueheart rejected , turning down the protection request . Xá Lợi and other Buddhist centers across the country were raided a month later by Special Forces under the direct control of the Ngo family . On the part of the South Vietnamese government , the '' de facto '' first lady Madame Nhu used her English-language mouthpiece newspaper , the '' Times of Vietnam '' , to accuse the United States of supporting the failed coup attempt against Diem in 1960
raided a month later
Xá Lợi Pagoda raids
Double Seven Day scuffle