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...Dinh Nhu, the beautiful doll-like sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem, once ruled Saigon social life like a pirate queen. She censored movies, organized women's militia units and fiercely denounced all opposition. When a Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest Diem's repression, Mme. Nhu ridiculed the immolation as a "barbecue." Touring abroad when her husband and Diem were slain in 1963, Mme. Nhu took up residence in a commodious, ocher-colored Roman villa purchased with funds the family had accumulated during the years of power. Now 48, she still lives there with...
...October, it would seem that the potential candidates have plenty of immediate issues to argue about. But currently the hottest issue in the campaign is an episode from the past: the coup that ended with the murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu back...
...well established in the Pentagon papers: that Americans had been in contact with Minh's group before the coup. It also implies that Minh knew that the brothers were doomed. According to the transcript, Minh told Khanh "even though we knew it was inhuman to kill Diem and Nhu, we had to kill them both. Should the coup have failed, what would have happened...
...press should be allowed full latitude of expression. While tendentious reporting is irritating," the White House cable continued, "suppression of news leads to much more serious trouble." Lodge demurred that it was hopeless to talk with Diem since he and his brother, Secret Police Chief Ngo Dinh Nhu, believed that such reforms would under mine their power. But the White House replied: "We ourselves can see much virtue in an effort to reason with an unreasonable man when he is on a collision course...
...Kennedy Administration approved efforts to encourage a coup after Diem's attack on Buddhist pagodas in August, but when reservations over the success of an overthrow deepened, the U.S. withdrew its clandestine support of the generals and the coup was delayed. Concern heightened, however, with reports that Nhu might seek rapprochement with the North, which could have resulted in a neutralist government in Saigon. The plotting continued, and two days before Diem was ousted, McGeorge Bundy cabled Lodge...