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...ruling family of South Viet Nam is both long enduring and long talking. Correspondent Charles Mohr has had interviews of five hours at a stretch with President Diem, of two or three hours with Brother Nhu, and for this week's cover, one five-hour and one three-hour session with Mme. Nhu. The males in the family tend to lecture; Mohr found Mme. Nhu a vastly more fascinating talker. She seemed to enjoy the process, too: "You know, I have told you things I have never told anyone else." Mohr found her candor both pleasing and formidable...
Hong Kong Bureau Chief Mohr had planned a farewell party for Schecter, who is leaving for a year's Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Both found themselves wholly preoccupied with the Mme. Nhu story in Saigon, so the Hong Kong party for 48 guests took place last week without either the guest of honor or the host. But Mohr reassured Schecter (a father of five) that the hours spent with Mme. Nhu would at least leave him well prepared for dealing with "the callow girls of Radcliffe...
...granting state scholarships. Unlike other religious groups, Buddhists must have special government permits to hold large meetings. "This puts us in the same category as the trade unions," says one Buddhist priest. With their free and easy mores, Buddhists also complain about the morality crusade of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of Diem's brother and closest adviser. Mme. Nhu has banned polygamy, concubinage, dancing, and even fighting fish...
...Even then, the Buddhist controversy would probably have died down if the government had offered a public apology, which is the Buddhists' chief demand, along with such practical matters as freedom of assembly, the right to fly their flag, Buddhist chaplains in the army. But Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu has always urged a hard line. What he fears-with some reason-is that if Diem gives in even slightly to the Buddhists, it would only cause new demands that would eventually threaten the government's whole power structure. By week's end, however, in a belated attempt...
...million Buddhists by Diem's predominantly Roman Catholic regime. After a series of nationwide demonstrations,* the government, under U.S. prodding, yielded to Buddhist demands and granted them equal religious and political standing with the nation's 1,500,000 Catholics. But influenced by his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, who believes that the Buddhists are Red dupes, the militantly Catholic Diem has dragged his feet in implementing these concessions. Many Vietnamese Buddhists, says Nhu, "have become fanatic, lost their common sense, and are ready to follow anyone who knows how to exploit them under the banner of religion." This...