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...President Ngo Dinh Diem to settle their differences. The latest episodes offered little assurance of that. Couching his words in the most careful diplomatic terms, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge last week suggested to Diem that his brother and fiery sister-in-law, Ngo Dinh Nhu and Mme. Nhu, leave the country until the current crisis was over and a fresh rapprochement between the government and the population established. Lodge hinted delicately that the continued presence of the bitterly controversial Nhus in South Viet Nam not only hampered the war effort against the Communist Viet Cong, but could also "endanger...
...blaze of flashbulbs, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu left Saigon last week on a trip to Beirut, Belgrade, and points west. Elaborately coiffed and gowned, she met reporters and defended her views, attacked her enemies, dodged overly curved questions, and displayed an incredibly fascinating feminine charm. Whether twirling a parasol or hiding shyly behind an ivory fan, she both attracted and annoyed. "I had a strong desire to slap her," said one French television interviewer, "but from very, very close...
After the Lynching. Mme. Nhu's performance began at the Saigon airport. She said that when her mother cabled her from the U.S. urging her to flee South Viet Nam with her children because their lives were in danger, she had answered: "Dear Mother, I am sorry you have become intoxicated." To a question about her itinerary, she said: "Everyone calls me 'the Dragon Lady.' For the next few weeks, I will be like the dragonfly of the Vietnamese song. When it's happy, it stays; when it's unhappy, it flies away...
Tentatively, Mme. Nhu said, she planned to visit the U.S., though it would be like getting inside "a lion's cage." "I shall just talk extemporaneously," she said. "I am invited by the most important press groups. After lynching me, more or less, now they wish to hear me." She denied that she was going to be South Viet Nam's observer at the United Nations General Assembly. "I have nothing to do with the U.N.," she said. "I am not even going there to visit, because I have already seen...
...Mme. Nhu's inspiration, the government-controlled Times of Viet Nam bannered the headline, CIA FINANCING PLANNED COUP D'ETAT, over a story accusing U.S. agents of spending up to $24 million in bribes to key military men, labor leaders and civil servants to overthrow the Diem government-or at least to depose Nhu and his lady. The U.S. State Department scornfully dismissed the charges as "something out of Ian Fleming...