Word: nhu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchid are said to grow in the province, and mimosa vines with delicate, mauve flowers climb innumerable trellises. At the 52-room Dalat Palace Hotel, completed in 1923, Headwaiter Hoang Van Tu serves meals, as he has since 1942 to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging from the massive teak bed is skillfully patched and blessedly intact. A mile away horses graze near a sand trap on the golf course Americans designed and built...
Kwitny finds the CIA involved in impropriety across Asia. He argues that the CIA was a key player in a drug smuggling operation headed by President Diem's brother, Nhu, that poured heroin into the United States. And it was Nugan Hand that, during its solvency in the 1970s, laundered the operation's money...
MADAME NGO DINH NHU Saigon...
...Dien Bien Phu. The third hour, about American support for, and eventual abandonment of, Ngo Dinh Diem, includes horrific scenes of a Buddhist monk setting himself ablaze as a protest against Diem's government, followed by a clip of Diem's sister-in-law Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu sneering at the monk for using "imported gasoline." President John Kennedy is shown saying in September 1963, " "It is their war. The [South Vietnamese] government has gotten out of touch with the people...