Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor summed up his observations on the Saigon story: "Many U.S. correspondents come and go in South Viet Nam. Only about half a dozen can be called in any sense permanent here . . . Ever since September 1954, some French commentators, journalistic and others, have been forecasting for President Ngo Dinh Diem the collapse they apparently hoped for . . . There is plenty to criticize, as in most governments, especially those recently developed and under enemy fire. But there is certainly far more to be criticized in Red-ruled North Viet...
...week. She was accompanied by her handsome, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, and preceded by some of the worst press notices since Tokyo Rose. Although not even her bitterest critics would doubt her courage, the petite sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem did have some fears about her 21-day coast-to-coast visit. Going to the U.S., said she, would probably be like walking into "a cage of lions...
Hardly a Housewife. Undoubtedly, Mme. Nhu was on her best behavior. One sobering influence was the fact that the U.S. has quietly begun trimming its economic aid to her brother-in-law's regime in hopes of forcing it to initiate reforms. After Diem's Special Forces raided the Buddhist pagodas last August, the U.S. suspended a $10 million-a-month commercial import program, sales of U.S. surplus commodities that ran to $2,000,000 a month, and part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's $2,000,000 monthly payments to the Special Forces and blocked...
...only so long. At a television interview the day after her arrival, she managed to keep her inch-long fingernails sheathed for the better part of an hour, but finally began clawing about. The U.S. Information Service, she insisted, without producing any convincing evidence, had plotted to overthrow the Diem government, and Saigon's resident U.S. newsmen had helped out. "They just dislike us," she explained...
...inform more of the American people about the Communist danger. We should not be lulled into a false sense of security." Did her husband, and not her brother-in-law, really rule South Viet Nam? "It is the President who rules, not my husband or me," she replied. "President Diem is too authoritarian to allow anything else." When Columnist Mary McGrory asked, "Why did you come here at our expense?" Mme. Nhu replied icily, "I was not aware that all the money in Viet Nam was American...