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...length of time Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr talked to Chuong's daughter...
...ruling family of 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...
Getting other people in Saigon to talk was less easy. Correspondents Mohr and Jerrold Schecter had to resort to odd expedients in a capital caught up in a nasty war, where secret police crack down relentlessly on opponents and where fear is a feeling in the air. To one oppositionist source who dared not see them, they sent a messenger with questions typed on plain paper and got back typewritten answers with no signature...
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...
This oddly assembled, but imaginatively conceived country depends more than anything else on the popularity and sound sense of the Tunku, whom Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr describes as "one of the most relaxed, cheerful and modestly friendly cover subjects" he has ever interviewed. Describing one youthful escapade, Tunku commented, "I'm a lazy man." An aide watched in evident distress as Mohr wrote it down. Tunku merely chuckled: "It's too late now." A man so ready to concede his own mistakes, Reporter Mohr concluded, could count on justified pride in many achievements...