Word: thuy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bank apartment, fired off letters of protest to President Johnson. But she was not so furious as to lose her head completely. An American correspondent, trying to get Madame Nhu's firsthand version of the whole affair, knocked on the apartment door, was met by her daughter Le Thuy, and the following conversation took place: Le Thuy: Surely you know that Madame will not see journalists without payment in advance? Reporter: How much, if we just talk about the visa? Le Thuy: For how much time? Reporter: Five minutes. Le Thuy (after a brief consultation with her mother behind...
...Sympathy. Last week Mme. Nhu was in mourning in Los Angeles with Daughter Le Thuy, 18. Her three younger children were whisked out of Viet Nam after the coup. At first, Mme. Nhu planned to meet them in Rome, but then she decided to have the children join her in California. Sympathetic messages poured in all week-telegrams from such people as Democratic Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, Publisher William Buckley; a six-minute phone call of condolence from former Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon. Paris Match magazine offered...
...Beleaguered Lady. At week's end, Mme. Nhu, repudiating all those stories of a villa on the Riviera and a bank account in Switzerland, told the press that she was without funds-except for money out of her reach in Viet Nam. She and Le Thuy moved into a four-room suite in the Bel Air mansion of Financier Allen Chase, who has vast investments in the Orient with TV Performer Art Linkletter, and was an occasional visitor at President Diem's palace...
...daughter left the hotel for Chase's home, they were engulfed in an army of television cameramen and photographers. Policemen battered a path through the crowd to her car. Mme. Nhu rushed in and slumped in the back seat, then turned and sobbed helplessly in Le Thuy's arms. A short time later, at the entrance to Chase's four-acre estate, the same squad of camera carriers blocked the driveway, forcing the car to a stop. One TV type poked a microphone through the car window, almost hitting Mme. Nhu in the face. She shrank into...
...replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were in Manhattan, where the ex-ambassador was laying plans for a speaking tour designed to cover up what he called...