Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regarding your gratuitous credit for inspiration of our CIA exposé [Sept. 13], we wish to inform you that the inspiration came not from Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu but from the widely witnessed overt-covert games of coup promoters themselves, and from some of those who got interesting offers. Many people here believe that if Kennedy is trying to solve his own problems-special forces, brother, religion and social-disturbances-by blowing them up in Viet Nam and then knocking them off with a coup d'état, he will fail on both sides of the world...
ROME, Sept. 22--Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, first lady of South Viet Nam, ridiculed junior officers of the U.S. military mission in Saigoa today, calling them "little soldiers of fortune." President Ngo Dinh Diem's sister-in-law spoke bitterly of what she called the "irresponsible behavior" of young American Army officers stationed in her country...
...interview at the South Viet Nam embassy, Mrs. Nhu said, "I hall the forth-coming visit of the American Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to Saigon because we always welcome all responsible people willing to understand our situation...
Official Consternation. At the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Belgrade, where she represented South Viet Nam, Mme. Nhu stole the show with her graceful pink aodai. There was fire in her eyes and in her words. The Diem government would never yield to "perfidious blackmailing attacks," she exclaimed. What about the concern for South Viet Nam's Buddhists voiced by the Vatican? Pope Paul VI is too "easily worried," retorted Mme. Nhu. Her acid remark supplemented earlier comments on the same subject on French television: "As a Catholic, I am only required to believe in the dogmas of my religion...
Reports that she would not stay at the conference until its conclusion left officials near consternation. "If Mme. Nhu leaves one day early," said one, "then the conference will have lost its importance." But she showed every sign of enjoying herself. Letting fly at the White House after reports that John F. Kennedy might be a bit unhappy with South Viet Nam's whole ruling family, Mme. Nhu suggested that the President was "misinformed about the situation in South Viet Nam." "He's a politician, and when he hears loud opposition, he tries to appease...