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Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu of South Vietnam carries her private campaign for United States support into Cambridge today. The sister-in-law of strongarm President Diem will arrive at Logar airport sometime after 4 p.m. and will speak tonight at the Law school Forum...
...Nhu will be met at the airport by officials of Radcliffe's East House and taken by car to Cabot Hall for a brief speech and dinner in the Cabot dining room. She will address the Law School Forum tonight at 8.30 p.m. in the Rindge Tech auditorium...
Asked about her troubles with the U.S. press, Mme. Nhu said that "my trip is a sincere effort to determine if freedom of expression is a reality in America." While demonstrators outside tossed eggs at her car, one reporter asked if she was frightened going out in Paris. Milady's unruffled reply: "No. The only thing in the world I am afraid of is long hairy caterpillars...
Worried by their correspondents' insistent anti-Diem, anti-Nhu, pro-Buddhist, we're-losing-the-war attitude, editors began sending other hands to Saigon for a fresh look. One of the first such visitors was the New York Herald Tribune's Maggie Higgins, who complained: "Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right." She went out into the field in an effort to get "the seldom-told other side of the story," a story, she insisted, "that contrasts violently with the tragic headlines and anti-Diem ferment...
...severely critical of practically everything. What they reported about the course of the war was seriously questioned in Washington; what they wrote about the deterioration of the Diem government (not sufficiently emphasized in the TIME story) was correct -and confirmed all around, even unintentionally by Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu (TIME cover, Aug. 9) as she made her noisy way around the world...