Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After their coup, South Viet Nam's rebels announced that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were killed in an armored car when Nhu scuffled with an army captain over a gun. Hardly anyone believed that story. According to a likelier version, the brothers were taken to Joint General Staff Headquarters; Diem refused to announce his resignation and Nhu started cursing-whereupon one of the generals pulled his gun and shot them. In any case, the new government to this day terms their deaths "accidental suicide...
...finally acquired two such pictures from an unidentified source. In the photographs the brothers hardly look like suicide victims, accidental or otherwise. Both are still wearing the Roman Catholic priests' robes in which they attempted to escape after their regime caved in; their faces are bloodied and bruised, Nhu's hands tied behind his back...
Still a mystery is the whereabouts of the bodies. Fortnight ago, a picture peddler appeared again, this time exhibiting photographs of two coffins, marked Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, on trestles, with an unidentified army officer standing near by. Other prints showed the coffins, decorated with flowers and candles, beside two freshly dug graves, and a European priest in the foreground along with a Vietnamese man and woman said to be Diem relatives. The site was said to be a cemetery within the compound of Joint General Staff Headquarters...
...Rome she was welcomed by Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, who had been attending the Vatican Council; then she was whisked to a tree-shaded convent for a rest. Eventually, Mme. Nhu insists, she will return to South Viet Nam. Said she: "My burden will be hard indeed, for the Devil has not been disarmed and is still trying to beat me down...
Interest in Barry Goldwater is widespread, but it stems largely from the feeling that, like Mme. Nhu, the Arizona Senator is "entertaining." Only "nonthinkers" would vote for Goldwater, says one typical student, and some collegians couldn't care less. Asks a Miami coed: "How can you give intelligent people a choice between Meatball Kennedy and Opportunist Goldwater...