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...South Viet Nam is both long enduring and long talking. Correspondent Charles Mohr has had interviews of five hours at a stretch with President Diem, of two or three hours with Brother Nhu, and for this week's cover, one five-hour and one three-hour session with Mme. Nhu. The males in the family tend to lecture; Mohr found Mme. Nhu a vastly more fascinating talker. She seemed to enjoy the process, too: "You know, I have told you things I have never told anyone else." Mohr found her candor both pleasing and formidable, and the evidence...
Hong Kong Bureau Chief Mohr had planned a farewell party for Schecter, who is leaving for a year's Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Both found themselves wholly preoccupied with the Mme. Nhu story in Saigon, so the Hong Kong party for 48 guests took place last week without either the guest of honor or the host. But Mohr reassured Schecter (a father of five) that the hours spent with Mme. Nhu would at least leave him well prepared for dealing with "the callow girls of Radcliffe...
...meet her foes in a chauffeur-driven black Mer cedes. Instead of swords, her weapons are bottomless energy, a devastating charm, a tough, relentless mind, an acid tongue, a militant Roman Catholi cism ? and, most important, the power of the family into which she married. She is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and closest brain-truster. In ad dition to acting as official First Lady for the bachelor President, she is in her own right one of the two or three most powerful people in the country and in a sense...
...Buddhist students in granting state scholarships. Unlike other religious groups, Buddhists must have special government permits to hold large meetings. "This puts us in the same category as the trade unions," says one Buddhist priest. With their free and easy mores, Buddhists also complain about the morality crusade of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of Diem's brother and closest adviser. Mme. Nhu has banned polygamy, concubinage, dancing, and even fighting fish...
...High Mass, Sung. The most telling experience for Gaullists is to be in De Gaulle's presence, which is surrounded by an inflexible liturgy. Guardian of the "Christian morality and social propriety" of the ritual is Mme. de Gaulle." "She checks the necklines of the ministers' wives," says Author Viansson-Ponté, "and has at various times, it is said, succeeded in keeping out of the government people suspected of marital infidelity." At luncheon at De Gaulle's country home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, "Mme. de Gaulle asks about the road, talks about the weather...