Word: geneva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideological Troika. The investigation once again underlined the helplessness of the commission in its attempt to supervise the peace agreed to at Geneva in 1954. With negotiations to end the second Viet Nam war about to resume, the incident also served as a timely reminder that such settlements are only as good as the machinery that enforces them. By that measure, the ICC has been a monumental failure. The Paris negotiators will clearly have to think of something better...
...size and shape of negotiating tables is another problem that has confounded many a diplomat. At the 1959 Geneva Conference of the Big Four, a protracted dispute was finally ended when the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to sit at a round table while the East and West Germans sat at small, square, separate tables precisely six pencil widths from the main table. To solve the present impasse in Paris, some officials have suggested that no formal tables be used-but then the negotiators would argue over the size and shape of the coffee tables that would be needed...
...Geneva, Switzerland...
...Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
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