Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME has received two communications from Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu since the cover story about her (Aug. 9). In the first, she wrote: "Used to being somehow mistreated by the American press, I can say that by comparison I find your behavior fair, though it may lead people to fear me more after reading your story...
MADAME NGO DINH NHU...
...policy, and perhaps in personnel. If it doesn't make those changes, I would think the chances of winning it would not be very good." Kennedy named no names, but the "personnel changes" he wanted were the removal from power of Diem's younger brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, and Nhu's acerbic wife...
Absolutely Misinformed. Defy the Administration Diem did, making it clear that he, his brother and his sister-in-law meant to retain their positions of power. As for Mme. Nhu, when she heard of Kennedy's statements, she commented: "If he really said that, it is very serious, because it shows the American Government is absolutely misinformed...
Determined to dissociate itself from Diem's anti-Buddhist policies-and to keep the army on its side-the U.S. formally absolved South Viet Nam's military leaders of responsibility in Nhu's sacking of the Buddhist temples. In an unusually sharp statement, Washington said that the generals were "not aware of the plans to attack the pagodas, much less the brutal manner in which they were carried out." Saigon bitterly denied the Washington statement, produced a document signed by army leaders to the effect that they had asked "the government to take the action...