Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Joseph Marie Trin Nhu Khue, 78, Viet Nam's only Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Hanoi; of a heart attack; in Hanoi, three days after his return from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from...
...eligible. But America's John Wright, India's Valerian Gracias and Poland's Boleslaw Filipiak are too ill to participate. (Like Yu Pin, they were likely to join the conservative bloc.) If Viet Nam refuses to grant an exit visa to Joseph Marie Trin Nhu Khue of Hanoi, a total of 110 Cardinals will enter the conclave...
...book has at least two defects -one technical, one spiritual. To set historical contexts, Davidson simply unreels fast montages: Kennedy shot Timothy Leary ... Negroes at lunch counters . . Buddhists on fire ... Madame Nhu . . . and so on, as if the names of the events were pills - as if merely popping them were enough to evoke the entire drama. It is not enough...
...prospect of an interview with President Ngo Dinh Diem, which meant that you had to visit the bathroom beforehand because he sometimes kept you six straight hours. The thing was to be Diem's weekend guest at Cap St-Jacques, where his sister-in-law, the lissome Mme. Nhu, led giggling moonlight hunts for crustaceans to put in Sunday's bouillabaisse...
...several Vietnamese-speaking interviewers discovered that some of the orphans said they were not orphans at all. Jane Barton, a staff member of the American Friends Service Committee who spent three years in Viet Nam, found two dozen children who claimed they had at least one living parent. Interviewer Nhu Miller talked to a twelve-year-old boy and his two sisters who said their parents had been persuaded by nuns to turn them over to an orphanage. The children, who survived the C-5A crash near Saigon that killed 200 persons early this month, arrived in San Francisco...