I talked with knowledgeable members of the international press corps in Saigon. I spent much of my time outside of Saigon. traveling by helicopter to a number of military installations and to a variety of civilian projects. I viewed refugee resettlement projects. and visited a prisonerofwar camp. where I was able to converse with captured Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers. I studied the socalled "Chieu Hoi"-open armsprogram. designed to induce defection from the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese regular army. and I conversed with some of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese defectors at a Chieu Hoi camp. In the evenings.