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Festively bedecked elephants, a troop of mounted horsemen and colorful floats paraded through the streets of Saigon last week. It was Women's Day, an occasion organized and supervised by South Viet Nam's most bitterly debated female, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. To some she is an Asian Joan of Arc, to others an Oriental Lucrezia Borgia...
...fragile-looking but tough-minded beauty of 38, Madame Nhu is the wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's brother and closest brain-truster, serves as her bachelor brother-in-law's official First Lady. Around Madame Nhu and her husband swirls much of the opposition to Diem's regime. Critics blame their considerable influence on Diem for the excesses of his government, argue that he would become more tractable and his administration more liberal if he got rid of them...
Puritanical Feminist. Zealous and sincere in her single-minded belief that only Diem can solve South Viet Nam's problems, Madame Nhu tirelessly preaches the merits of "personalism," a mixture of Confucianism, autocracy and Catholic morality, that President Diem calls his "formula" of government. Like Diem, Madame Nhu is intolerant of criticism, last week lashed out at the "pseudo-liberalism" of those who questioned Diem's restrictive measures. She indirectly blamed the West for Communist gains in South Viet Nam, because the U.S. should have realized the pressing need for anti-guerrilla forces as far back...
...puritan as well as a feminist, Madame Nhu is the founder and president of the 1,000,000 Women's Solidarity Movement, a sort of Asian Junior League that has set up nurseries, maternity clinics, social welfare centers, kindergartens and night schools. Three years ago, the National Assembly passed her family bill, which banned polygamy and concubinage, set up stiff penalties for adultery, outlawed divorce except by permission of the President. Currently, Madame Nhu is plugging a social purification law that would outlaw taxi dancers, prizefighting and other ''immoral" entertainment...
...palace's east wing to a cellar fortified against such emergencies, flashed word by telephone to his military commanders just as a napalm bomb turned the west wing into a smoky shambles. In a west wing apartment, meanwhile, Diem's brother and sister-in-law, Braintruster Nhu (still clad in pajamas) and Presidential Hostess Mme. Nhu, snatched three of their children (a fourth was away from home) and bolted for the basement. In the scramble, Mme. Nhu fell down the steps, bruising her arms, legs and forehead. Also to the bunker rushed another brother. Archbishop Thuc, in Saigon...