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Buddhists feel that Diem's government is trying to make Catholicism the official state religion, point to the morality crusade of Diem's militantly Catholic sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. In sharp variance with the easy social mores of most South Vietnamese, Mme. Nhu has banned abortion, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, divorce (except by presidential dispensation), and the sale of contraceptives...
...religion. "I don't forget," he says, "that 80% of the votes that elected me President were Buddhist votes." Catholics maintain that they occupy so many influential posts only because their church schools turn out far better educated graduates than Buddhist schools. In a sharply worded statement, Mme. Nhu challenged the good faith of striking bonzes (monks). "The robe does not make the bonze," said Mme. Nhu. "It is necessary to examine very closely the comportment of certain so-called Buddhist monks who continue to make not only inconsiderate but false remarks and overtly assume an attitude incompatible with...
...Americans have lost their lives in the fighting so far, their most bitter complaint is that military operations are constantly hobbled by political considerations. The big command decisions have to be cleared with President Diem, who still leans heavily on such members of his family as Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, and the beauteous Madame Nhu, for advice and support in the struggle against the Communists. Diem is mistrustful of many of his best soldiers and fears also that continued heavy casualties will undermine what public support he enjoys. U.S. officers have pleaded in vain with Diem to allow more small...
...where the U.S. is deeply committed in a bitter guerrilla war against the Reds, looks far more hopeful than it did a year ago. As the nation celebrated its seventh annual National Day last week, President Diem declared "unwavering faith in the future," and Sister-in-Law Madame Nhu was on hand in Saigon as a chic, steely illustration of that faith by laying the cornerstone for a new $100,000 social-welfare center. The country's welfare, social and otherwise, is still heavily at the mercy of the Communists, who demonstrated the fact by throwing a grenade into...
...edification of those disgruntled by and ' South private Viet Nam's dancing, new ban on strait-laced public First Lady Mme. Nqo DInh Nhu delivered a stern lecture. "Foreigners come here not to dance, but to help Vietnamese fight Communism." said President Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin Mme. Nhu...