Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlike his brothers, Can has never been abroad, did not go to a university, and runs his fiefdom like an old warlord, the war in the central highlands is going far bet ter than anywhere else in South Viet Nam. An inveterate ao-dai chaser, Can has incurred Mme. Nhu's wrath: "He is stubborn and touchy, and unbearably obsolete concerning women." But, she concedes, "we all feel safer to have him in Hu?...
...robes." She has consistently opposed the U.S. counsel of moderation and Diem's own halfhearted efforts to temporize. Her recommendation for dealing with Buddhist demonstrators: "Beat them three times harder." When the Buddhist monk, Quang Due, burned himself to death in protest against the regime six weeks ago, Mme. Nhu was unimpressed. The Buddhists "barbecued one of their monks, whom they intoxicated," she savagely told a CBS reporter last week. "And even that burning was not done with self-sufficient means, because they used imported gasoline...
...Washington, the South Vietnamese embassy formally repudiated Mme. Nhu's statement as representing only her views and not that of the government. The disclaimer was particularly intriguing, because the ambassador, Tran Van Chuong, is Mme. Nhu's father, who violently disapproves of her ?and only partly because the government expropriated his vast property seven years ago. She in turn disapproves of him, once called him a coward...
...Vatican, which is distressed by the extent to which Diem's repressive measures have tarnished the image of Catholicism in South Viet Nam, vetoed the suggestion. It has also ignored all hints that Archbishop Thuc might become a cardinal. Thuc is the only one of the brothers whom Mme. Nhu does not criticize, and he often arbitrates family disputes...
...Dinh Luyen, 48, has been abroad since 1954, serves as South Viet Nam's Ambassador to Great Britain and several other European countries, Mme. Nhu is openly contemptuous of Luyen's ability and sneeringly calls him "a dilettante...