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They are also a bargain: the average cost per defector is $125, v. an estimated $400,000 expended to kill one enemy soldier, and 70% of those coming over so far have been combat soldiers. For all the success of Chieu Hoi, though, it is still far from winning the war. To date there have been only 200 defectors from the North Vietnamese forces, and no matter how many war-weary Viet Cong come over the line, there will be yet more Northerners to replace them. Still, Saigon feels that the defection rate has reached a turning point, expects this...
...only some of the Delta's youthful Red warriors who are giving up the fight. Last week the Saigon government proudly presented the highest-ranking defector ever to come over to the Allied side. He was North Vietnamese Lieut. Colonel Le Xuan Chuyen, 37, a 20-year veteran of the Communist wars, who until his defection last Aug. 2 was deputy chief of staff and director of operations of the Viet Cong's 5th Division, with responsibilities equivalent to those of a U.S. brigadier general...
...Defector is Montgomery Cliffs last film. Based on The Spy, a thriller by Paul Thomas, the picture describes a harrowing week in the life of a prominent U.S. physicist (Montgomery Clift) who intends to make an innocent tour of museums in East Germany, but is persuaded at the last minute to combine personal pleasure with CIA business. Once across the border, the scientist swiftly discovers that the game of espionage can be played with mirrors. Sent to make contact with a Communist physicist who wants to defect, the hero instead makes contact with a Communist physicist (Hardy Kruger) who wants...
...defector plunged on, unheeding -in fact, unhearing. For the escapee was a clanking, wheezing bulldozer. Slowly it staggered forward, weaving from side to side, as if in some drunken waltz...
...Germany as a legitimate mission on behalf of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. David Martin, who had accompanied the Senator to Germany, testified that Dodd had in fact interviewed a defected Soviet agent. Martin acknowledged, however, that barely seven hours of the six-day trip were spent on the defector's case and that Dodd discussed Klein with Konrad Adenauer...