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...needs to defect, including a safe-conduct pass and a map of the local district showing precisely where-and how-to find the Allied side. Throughout the country, the kits will be hand-delivered to Viet Cong families by an extraordinary assembly of postmen: former Viet Cong who, as Hoi Chanh (returnees), have become members of the government's armed propaganda teams. The kit will be only one more reminder-along with the Tet songs on the radio, the broadcast planes overhead and the millions of leaflets -that the government's Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) extend everywhere...
...lawyers, 600 doctors (more than in all Viet Nam) and 300 engineers. High-ranking exiles include Three-Star General Nguyen Van Hinh, the army chief of staff who plotted against Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in 1954. Today he is a deputy commander of the French air force. Prince Buu Hoi heads Paris' National Cancer Institute...
...those who want to renounce Communism can "lay down their weapons" and stay in the South. "As for those who persist in bringing misery to the people," Ky added, "we shall give them no quarter." So far this year, some 13,000 Viet Cong have defected under the Chieu Hoi ("open arms") program, but many of them have been unable to find jobs or overcome the suspicions of local officialdom. Thus Saigon hopes to win over significant numbers of Viet Cong while making life more attractive for those who might be tempted to join the enemy...
...countryside as "a dagger pointed at the Viet Cong's heart" (though an official Vietnamese assessment in preparation tells another story-of faulty recruiting, bad training, improper use of workers and ill-advised psychology). Komer notes proudly that 12,106 Viet Cong have surrendered under the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) amnesty program so far in 1966-nearly 1,000 more than for the whole of last year-but, again, ignores a sad record of Vietnamese in difference and downright hostility to rehabilitating yesterday's enemy...
...case of Hoi Pham Tri illustrates the growing, voluntary response of U.S. military doctors and corpsmen to the medical problems of civilians. In the slack times between treating service men's wounds and illnesses, many doctors in the three medical corps have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just...