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...hardly that. Wherever Mme. Nhu went, large crowds gathered. There were, of course, the inevitable pickets toting such signs as: NO NHUS IS GOOD NEWS and PHU ON NHU. But for the most part the crowds were merely curious. As for the press, it was ready with plenty of loaded questions. No sooner did Mme. Nhu arrive in New York than one reporter asked if she were "power-hungry," as her father, Tran Van Chuong, recently resigned as Saigon's ambassador to Washington, had claimed. "If I am," she replied in her rapid-fire but often imprecise English...
Hardly a Housewife. Undoubtedly, Mme. Nhu was on her best behavior. One sobering influence was the fact that the U.S. has quietly begun trimming its economic aid to her brother-in-law's regime in hopes of forcing it to initiate reforms. After Diem's Special Forces raided the Buddhist pagodas last August, the U.S. suspended a $10 million-a-month commercial import program, sales of U.S. surplus commodities that ran to $2,000,000 a month, and part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's $2,000,000 monthly payments to the Special Forces and blocked...
Even so, Mme. Nhu could contain herself only so long. At a television interview the day after her arrival, she managed to keep her inch-long fingernails sheathed for the better part of an hour, but finally began clawing about. The U.S. Information Service, she insisted, without producing any convincing evidence, had plotted to overthrow the Diem government, and Saigon's resident U.S. newsmen had helped out. "They just dislike us," she explained...
...Stool. Almost hidden by a 4-foot lectern, Mme. Nhu held forth for 90 minutes. At one point, someone brought over a bar stool and lifted her aboard, but after a moment she asked to have it removed. "I am more comfortable standing up," she said...
...husband, and not her brother-in-law, really rule South Viet Nam? "It is the President who rules, not my husband or me," she replied. "President Diem is too authoritarian to allow anything else." When Columnist Mary McGrory asked, "Why did you come here at our expense?" Mme. Nhu replied icily, "I was not aware that all the money in Viet Nam was American...