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...notorious way of protest against President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. Soaked in gasoline, he rode up to a crowded square, struck a spark, and went up in flames before anyone could stop him. At week's end, Diem himself lay dead alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The two men who had fought so long and so stubbornly-against Communism, against their critics, against the Buddhist demonstrators-had been consumed by a fire more slowly and carefully prepared...
...perfectly plain that the reduction of U.S. aid to Diem and Washington's public disapproval of his repressive measures against the Buddhists set the scene for the coup (see THE NATION). As the news from Saigon unfolded, it was Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who provided a bitter chorus from Los Angeles, where she was winding up her U.S. tour. Said she: "There can be no coup without American incitement or backing." This time, even her severest critics, including the Moscow press, agreed with...
...Nhu," declared California's Governor Pat Brown in the understatement of the month, "is a controversial figure. She is not the first to visit California, nor will she be the last. I urge all Californians to act like civilized Americans and let the lady have her say." But for all the Governor's pleas, a number of protest groups pursued their plans to give the lady a hostile welcome...
...Madame. At luncheons and press conferences, South Viet Nam's Mme. Nhu continued to air her grievances against the U.S. In Chicago she termed the U.S. withdrawal of financial aid to Viet Nam's Special Forces a "betrayal." Arriving in Texas, she made a pilgrimage to Neiman-Marcus' famed department store in Dallas, lunched at the city's rooftop Ports O' Call Restaurant, and was guest of honor at a Texas-sized blowout at the Bee County ranch of Millionaire Dudley T. Dougherty, who keeps an oil well in his front yard...
Whisking westward next day, Mme. Nhu stopped off for a talk in Phoenix and then waded into Pat Brown's excitable California for appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Berkeley. This week she concludes her 21-day grand tour...