Word: gauvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start of the ceasefire, the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision has been powerless to halt the hostilities. The Canadian members of the ices were so frustrated by the commission's impotence that they quit last August. Upon leaving Saigon, Canada's chief delegate, Michel Gauvin, remarked: "We were sent to observe a peace and came to watch a war." Since then the commission's other members, Poland, Hungary, Indonesia and Iran (which replaced Canada), have displayed no enthusiasm for looking too closely at anything...
Whatever else Sharp's trip may accomplish, it inspired one of the most remarkable cocktail parties ever held in Saigon. Staged by Canada's effervescent chief ICCS delegate, Michel Gauvin, it attracted 200 guests representing an unprecedented assortment of former enemies. On hand was TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott to take a few surreptitious notes...
...Lines. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu exaggerated only slightly when he declared that "there is no cease-fire at all." The ICCS chairman, Michel Gauvin of Canada, agreed. "The Joint Military Commission has as yet failed to get an effective cease-fire all over the country," he said. "It has failed to establish lines of demarcation between troops." Indeed, although the level of fighting was declining, there still were some 180 clashes a day-well above the level of many of the quieter periods of the war. For the entire cease-fire period so far, Saigon...