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...Trail of Stench." That evening Mme. Nhu sallied forth in search of her estranged father, Tran Van Chuong, who was replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were...
...Nhu's parents were not the only ones avoiding her. Official Washington boycotted her completely. The closest President Kennedy got to her was half a block away-he was guest of honor at a reception given by Ireland's Prime Minister Sean Lemass at the Mayflower Hotel while she was getting a permanent and having her nails polished (pearly pink) at a nearby Elizabeth Arden salon. "I know that this visit is unofficial," she complained, "and did not expect a red carpet. But there are 100 ways in which the Government could have shown me friendliness...
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for one, thought she had a point. "She has every right to expect from us a full measure of courtesy," Democrat Mansfield told his colleagues. "This nation has played host to many prominent visitors before Mme. Nhu whose views were, to say the least, not exactly music to our ears...
...Saigon her husband was doing much the same thing. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother, top adviser and secret police chief, spoke to seven Western newsmen at the presidential palace, told them in a 2¼-hour interview that...
Fidel Fell. When Mme. Nhu arrived in the U.S., ABC was first with a TV interview with her-because Lisa Howard had leaped on a plane and flown to Paris to talk to her there, getting the jump on reporters back home. She has a longstanding relationship with Nikita Khrushchev. It began when Khrushchev first came to the U.N. in 1960. Lisa, then working for the Mutual Broadcasting System, hung around the Russian embassy until Khrushchev emerged, batted her eyes at him, and charmed him into agreeing to an interview. Later at the U.N., while Khrush was fixing that loose...