Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy in Asia for years has been to lose the country but keep its leader. Your [Aug. 9] cover story may convince the foggy minds in Foggy Bottom that the only sensible course is to lose Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu and try to keep South Viet...
...After reading your article on Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, I find it hard to believe her statement that the sacraments are her "moral vitamins." Perhaps I am misjudging the lady, but anyone who has the apparent lack of respect for another person's religious convictions that she has, could use a bit of spiritual doctoring...
...year-old novice Buddhist monk named Nguyen Huong poured gasoline over his robes, then lit a match and turned himself into a human pyre. He was the second Buddhist priest to burn himself to death in protest against the authoritarian regime of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and his ruling family...
...Happy Time. The anticolonialist views shared by the whole Ngo Dinh family made the French regard the Nhus with suspicion. Settling in the resort town of Dalat, the Nhus quietly set about organizing popular support for the return to Viet Nam of Diem, who was in exile in the U.S. Nhu ran a paper and worked to develop his philosophy of personalism; to win favor among poor, potential supporters, Mme. Nhu turned down her family's hefty allowance, shopped for her own groceries, pedaled around Dalat on a bicycle...
That was when Saigon began to take serious notice of Mme. Ngo Dinh...