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Both plans seem incomplete. Without some consolidation such as Brinegar wants, federal aid on the scale contemplated by the ICC could become a massive, endless drain on taxpayers. The root problem of the Northeast lines is that their track system was vastly overbuilt around the turn of the century; in an era of trucks and pipelines it no longer carries enough freight to keep all the lines alive. On the other hand, Brinegar's belief that no federal money will be needed is almost surely wishful thinking. "There is no way for a bankrupt railroad to raise money other...
Shaky. There have been thousands of cease-fire violations, but only a few hundred "observations" by the ICC and virtually no unanimous decisions on which side was at fault. Of more than 40 formal cease-fire protests made by the South Vietnamese so far, only two have been investigated. In Giong Trom in the Mekong Delta, ICC delegates spent weeks trying to persuade the South Vietnamese district chief not to fire his artillery over their encampment. He finally moved his pieces, but persisted in firing into Viet Cong territory in violation of the ceasefire...
...commissions serve as a check on each other, since their supervisory and investigating duties overlap. But the new ICCS has some powers that the former and unlamented International Control Commission did not. It can, for instance, investigate truce violations on its own, without waiting for a complaint from either side. The key factor, of course, is whether the four parties are willing to cooperate. So far the Poles and the Canadians agree that the new commission is graced with a cooperative spirit absent from the old ICC...
...numbers, props and pledges count, however, the new ICC team that began to arrive in Saigon over the weekend should have a better chance than the old one. The Geneva commission, which fluctuated anywhere from a few score to several hundred members scattered in as many as 14 locations, had virtually no means of transportation and precious little cooperation. South Viet Nam did not sign the Geneva agreements, and therefore claimed it was exempt from ICC control -North Viet Nam did sign them but was no more helpful. The new commission will have 1,160 members located at 55 trouble...
...peace-keeping machinery backing up the new ICC is also far more elaborate than that set up by the Geneva agreements. For the first 60 days of the ceasefire, a 3,000-man military commission, composed of representatives from all four signatories to the treaty, will be deployed across the country, ready to deter and detect violations and to act as a forum for settling differences. The ICC will report any infractions it discovers to the commission, and vice versa. After 60 days, the U.S. and North Viet Nam will withdraw from the four-party commission, leaving a permanent military...