SOUTH VIET NAM WIDOW'S RETREAT MME . NGO DINH NHU HAD ARRIVED 
IN THE U.S . 5F WEEKS AGO AS A CRUSADING WIFE 
; LAST WEEK SHE LEFT, AN EMBITTERED WIDOW . FROM BEVERLY 
HILLS SHE FLEW TO ROME TO JOIN HER THREE YOUNGER CHILDREN, 
SON TRAC, 15, SON QUYHN, 11, AND DAUGHTER LE QUYEN, 4 
. EITHER BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF FUNDS OR A MISUNDERSTANDING 
WITH CALIFORNIA'S YOUNG REPUBLICANS, WHO HAD ORIGINALLY INVITED HER TO LOS 
ANGELES TO SPEAK, MME . NHU DEPARTED OWING NEARLY HALF OF 
HER $2,000 BILL AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE HOTEL (THE MANAGER DID 
NOT SEEM WORRIED ABOUT COLLECTING) . FOLLOWING HER BY MAIL WAS 
A STACK OF BOOKS, AMONG THEM TO LIVE AGAIN AND TNT 
: THE POWER WITHIN YOU ; HOW TO RELEASE THE FORCES 
INSIDE YOU AND GET WHAT YOU WANT . AT THE AIRPORT, 
READING A LONG FAREWELL STATEMENT, SHE REFERRED TO THE FACT THAT 
THE U.S . HAD ENCOURAGED THE COUP : " JUDAS HAS 
SOLD THE CHRIST FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER . THE NGO 
BROTHERS HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR A FEW DOLLARS . " BY 
THIS MME . NHU MEANT THE AID THAT THE U.S . 
HAD WITHHELD FROM DIEM BUT RESTORED " TO THOSE WHO WOULD 
NOT HESITATE TO TURN THEIR GUNS AGAINST THEIR OWN DULY ELECTED 
LEADERS . " SHE HAD HEARD REPORTS THAT, AFTER BEING MURDERED 
BY SOUTH VIET NAM'S NEW RULERS, " PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM'S 
FACE WAS SERENE IN DEATH, AND MY HUSBAND HAD A SLIGHT 
SMILE THOUGH HIS FACE WAS ALL STREAKED WITH BLOOD . I 
THINK THEREFORE THAT I CANNOT BE LESS SERENE THAN THEY . 
" IN ROME SHE WAS WELCOMED BY DIEM'S BROTHER, ARCHBISHOP NGO 
DINH THUC, WHO HAD BEEN ATTENDING THE VATICAN COUNCIL ; THEN 
SHE WAS WHISKED TO A TREESHADED CONVENT FOR A REST . 
EVENTUALLY, MME . NHU INSISTS, SHE WILL RETURN TO SOUTH VIET 
NAM . SAID SHE : " MY BURDEN WILL BE HARD 
INDEED, FOR THE DEVIL HAS NOT BEEN DISARMED AND IS STILL 
TRYING TO BEAT ME DOWN . / 