Word: nhu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Halberstam recount the development and deepening of the war. Meanwhile the screen shows scenes of John Foster Dulles promulgating his doctrine of "collective security" and French troops vanquished at Dienbienphu. There are glimpses of wartime savagery on both sides, and there is even some comic relief, as when Madame Nhu announces "About that question of the rubber stamp parliament: I have repeatedly said, 'But what's wrong to rubber-stamp the laws we approve...
...good friends was Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who now heads the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front. That friendship lent some credence in voters' minds to Dzu's claim to be able to negotiate with the Communists. Another law partner was Mme. Nhu's brother, Tran Van Khiem. It was a profitable alliance for both men since the Diem family connections gave them an inside track with judges and the police. Along the way, Dzu visited the U.S. and became such a fervent Rotary Club member that he served a stint as Rotary...
Died. Ngo Dinh Le Thuy, 22, petite, doe-eyed daughter of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of assassinated President Diem, who just before the 1963 coup accompanied her mother on that famous U.S. speaking tour during which she captured her own share of attention with her fetching ao-dai, later moved to Paris while Mme. Nhu set tled in Italy; of injuries in an auto collision; in Longjumeau, France...
What Mrs. Lieberman (known as the "Madame Nhu" of Berkeley since her suspension last spring) says -- and the way she says it -- tend to arouse genuine rancor among university administrators who have been burned before by brushes with her and other non-students. But even the most bitter administrator acknowledges that, although he would like to ignore her, Mrs. Leibermann knows what she's talking about this time...
...memorable, perhaps, was George Wallace's visit to Cambridge in the fall of 1963. It provoked a large demonstration on Cambridge Common and picketing around Sanders Theatre. All that happened then, however, was that someone let the air out of the tires of Wallace's car. And when Madame Nhu arrived a few weeks later, angry critics marched outside Rindge Tech shouting loud enough to interrupt her speech inside several times. But neither of these incidents was anything like what happened last Monday. The reaction to McNamara caught the College's top administrators by surprise and left them cold with...