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...truce-observing machinery were to break up, the whole Paris agreement -and all hopes of a genuine peace -could unravel quickly. There are two reasons why that vital machinery has turned out to be impotent. The main problem is that, largely because of North Vietnamese opposition, the Paris accord did not set up an above-the-battle "standing authority" to which the ICCS can report. Instead, the ICCS is responsible mainly to the two-party Joint Military Commission, whose warring Communist and Thieu-regime delegates are not likely ever to agree on what ought to be done about truce violations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Non-Policing a Non-Truce | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...Paris accord insists that all official ICCS reports be unanimous, but the Polish and Hungarian observers on the commission are not always in the mood for unanimity. When a boat steaming along the delta was hit by a Viet Cong rocket, the Polish delegate reported that "it is possible that during a low tide the boat had seated itself on the explosive device lying on the bottom of a canal, thus causing the boat to sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Non-Policing a Non-Truce | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

April 5: peace accord signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Synopsis of Important Dates | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

Access to Wounded Knee in the final days before the accord was not quite so easy. Three separate road-blocks sprawled across Big Foot Trail, two of them manned by Indians who opposed each other. The Oglala Tribal Council maintained the outermost checkpoint, while the militant American Indian Movement handled the innermost roadblock. AIM demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the Oglala Tribal president. It was fitting that the U.S. government roadblock stood between the two Indian checkpoints, serving both symbolically and realistically as a buffer zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIM: A Long Way From Franklin Ave. | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

...meetings are part of a peace accord signed last Thursday by top AIM leader Russell C. Means and assistant attorney general Kent Frizzell. The accord brought an end to the 37-day occupation of Wounded Knee...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: Bad Cob Selected for D.C. Meetings | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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