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...most unlikely assemblage of foreign ministers under the glittering chandeliers of Paris' Hotel Majestic. Russia's Andrei Gromyko showed his distress at having to sit next to South Viet Nam's Tran Van Lam, who, in turn, frowned at the Viet Cong's Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. China's Chi Pengfei avoided even looking toward Gromyko, but chatted congenially with William Rogers, who affably courted both Chi and Gromyko. But despite all of the sensitivities and animosities around the huge circular table-and after a brief crisis that threatened to scuttle the entire Viet...
...cease-fire when-and if-they are reported by the four-nation (Canada, Hungary, Poland and Indonesia) International Commission of Control and Supervision. The ICCS, or any one of its members, will report violations to the four original combatants-the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and Viet Cong-who must relay copies to the other international conference members. There is no agreement on what will be done about any transgressions, though the U.S. and North Viet Nam could then jointly ask for a new international conference to take up that question. Alternatively, any six members could demand such...
...assured of an end to violence against its representatives on the Joint Military Commission in South Viet Nam. In retaliation, the U.S. then stopped its troop withdrawals and pulled its mine-clearing ships out of Haiphong harbor. Rogers met first with the North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese and Viet Cong, then with the North Vietnamese alone. At the same time, both the Chinese and Soviet representatives applied pressure to Hanoi's delegation-and suddenly, the P.O.W. release was back on schedule. Hanoi officials and the Viet Cong released the names of 136 Americans who, they said, would be turned over...
...Besides Rogers of the U.S., Gromyko of the U.S.S.R., Chi of China, Lam of South Viet Nam, Binh of the Viet Cong and Sharp of Canada, the others were North Viet Nam's Nguyen Duy Trinh, France's Maurice Schumann, Britain's Alec Douglas-Home, Indonesia's Adam Malik, Poland's Stefan Olszowski and Hungary's Janos Peter. The U.N.'s Kurt Waldheim was present but did not sign the pact...
When he was first imprisoned, Utecht was threatened with death, but later his captors were not often deliberately cruel. Hardest to bear were the forced marches at night. Whatever the Viet Cong could not load on bicycles ("They looked like camels with wheels"), they packed on the backs of prisoners. Once Utecht collapsed from pain and exhaustion. A guard threw a rope around his neck and forced him to walk along until he passed out. Luckily, a Viet Cong doctor stayed behind to help him the rest of the way to camp...