Word: knighting
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William V. T. Knight, a special student in Bolcal Relations, will head one of those teams that will interview Vietcong defectors. Americans will lead the teams, but Vietnamese students will do the actual interviewing...
From the interviews, it is hoped that the researchers can draw an accurate picture of the average Vietcong defector. According to Knight, "If we know what a defector thinks, then we should be able to predict his behavior under certain circumstances. Then if we can duplicate those circumstances, perhaps more of them will come over to the government...
...information gathered from he interviews will be used not only to encourage greater defection but also to help defectors adjust to South-Vietnamese life. "Having a full picture of the defector, we should de able to help create conditions that will make his reintegration into village life easier," Knight said...
Though funds for the project come from the Advanced Research Projects Knight stressed that "this is totally a non-military project. We don't want to know names, or dates, places, of anything like that...
...defectors will be asked about their personal backgrounds and the circumstances that led them both to join and to defect from the Vietcong. Vietnamese students, rather than the Americans, are being used for the interviewing to avoid "contaminating" the information received, Knight said...