Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, there were times last week when her corner must have seemed a lonely place. As curiosity about the sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem began to ebb in the second week of her 21-day tour, sympathetic crowds dwindled, officials cold-shouldered her, and about the only people who turned out to see her were newsmen and students...
...Venturing onto the college circuit, Mme. Nhu found little but poison Ivy along the way. At Harvard, she entered an auditorium through the back door to dodge some 500 churlish student pickets who were parading outside and carrying signs with such labored slogans as NHU DEAL is NHU DIEM GOOD. They pounded on the doors, splattered the building with eggs and rattled the windows while she spoke. Inside, things were not much better. When Mme. Nhu, sheathed in brocade and silk and trailing a mink stole, complained that "Americans in Viet Nam do not live like us ... austerely like...
...National Press Club. "But from a distance he seems more mysterious than an Asian." The Kennedy Administration was full of liberals, she said, and while "liberals aren't red yet, they're pink." As for the U.S. decision to withhold some economic aid from the Diem regime in hopes of forcing reforms, it only proved that "there is no real eagerness to win the war against the Communists...
...Trail of Stench." That evening Mme. Nhu sallied forth in search of her estranged father, Tran Van Chuong, who was replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were...
...National Assembly address, Diem professed supreme confidence about the war. He claimed that of 11,864 projected strategic hamlets, 8,600 have already been built and 10.5 million peasants grouped in them. He implicitly conceded U.S. criticism that the hamlets may be being built too fast for best results, but he argued that there is no other way. In a warning to the U.S., which is trimming nonmilitary aid to Diem in an effort to pressure him into liberalizing his rule, Diem said that despite the Sino-Soviet split Red China is intensifying "its aggressive and expansionist policy in Asia...