Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, presently residing in Paris, had been invited to the U.S. to address a "Truth Rally"sponsored by the Conservative Party club of Flushing, N.Y. In due course, she applied for a visa, and last week, in due course, the U.S. State Department turned her down on grounds that her presence would be "prejudicial to the public interest...
...lady was furious, issued broadsides from behind the closed doors of her fashionable Left Bank apartment, fired off letters of protest to President Johnson. But she was not so furious as to lose her head completely. An American correspondent, trying to get Madame Nhu's firsthand version of the whole affair, knocked on the apartment door, was met by her daughter Le Thuy, and the following conversation took place: Le Thuy: Surely you know that Madame will not see journalists without payment in advance? Reporter: How much, if we just talk about the visa? Le Thuy: For how much...
...gone to Beirut, or Beverly Hills, or some place; she's not here; she's never coming; she never has been here, neither has he"). Always there are people, deposited by misfortune on the wrong block, who stumble bewilderedly down theater row, wondering aloud whether Mme. Nhu is back in town or what? But they are adventuresome souls and queue up anyway. The crowd is pushing 3,000, and each other...
Another of his objectives as Head of East House. Thimann said, was to "introduce intellectual aspects into House life." He arranged for informal talks by visiting dignitaries (including Madame Nhu and the late Elcanor Roosevelt), a program of concentration dinners, a film series, and a poetry seminar...
...Nhu Cocktails. While the Army's ubiquitous helicopters have won most of the glory, "the Peanut Air Force," as pilots wryly call it, compiled its own respectable record, plastering the Viet Cong with everything from bombs to "Mme. Nhu cocktails" (napalm mixed with charcoal). The Air Force claims that it has accounted for 35% of Viet Cong casualties...