Word: geneva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard freshman Seott Allen, competing in the world figure skating championships in Geneva this week, occupies fourth place after the compulsory figures...
...question is even more relevant now, since more than 5,500 suspected Communists were captured during the Tet offensive. In previous modern wars, the rare soldier caught out of uniform could expect to be shot as a spy; the Geneva Convention of 1949 in effect denies prisoner-of-war status to spies. It allows soldiers captured out of uniform to qualify for P.W. privileges if they 1) carried arms "openly" or 2) fought "in accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas...
This could be accomplished under the auspices of the Geneva Conference Co-chairmen, perhaps with the help of a specially appointed committee of the Geneva nations assigned the task of negotiating such collective agreement. The U.S. would be included as a participant of the Geneva Conference of 1954. Hopefully, China would also participate, but her refusal to do so should not frustrate these undertakings as long as cooperation among the remaining Geneva powers was strong and effective enough to insure a workable system of guarantees...
Third, a carefully coordinated system of international community supervision, control, and implementation of the agreements made between Saigon and the National Liberation Front and among the Geneva Conference powers. This could involve many roles--policing of borders; supervision of cease-fire, repatriation; and withdrawal; a political-military presence to assure local security and order; verification and corrective action on neutrality violations; providing of interim administrative services; supervision of elections; and expertise on regional economic development...
...that the ICC be enlarged and strengthened. Since the Accords guarantee the Commission all "modern means of transport" the ICC might have accepted the helicopters the U.S. offered. But as far as increasing the numbers or operating methods of ICC teams is concerned, any final decision must come from Geneva...