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...Various joint bodies are created to help supervise the truce. These include at first a four-party joint military commission from among the recent combatants, a two-party joint military commission, the ICC (see box, page 17), and within 30 days, an international conference of 13 members...
...both sides want to resume fighting, it is not clear how the combatants can be kept apart. Considering the built-in limitations of the ICC (see box, page 17), the effectiveness of the cease-fire would seem to depend mostly on the spirit of observance by the Vietnamese-a proud, stubborn, subtle people who can quietly nurture hate until the moment of retribution arrives...
WITNESSING the rebirth of an International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICC) for Viet Nam is rather like seeing an extinct species spring magically back to life. Soon after the old ICC-which still exists, in vestigial form-was created by the Geneva agreements in 1954, it settled down into a routine of quarrelsome impotence. Lacking any mutually acceptable alternative, Washington and Hanoi seemed determined to try again with a peace-keeping mechanism that has a proven history of failure...
...Saigon and voted unanimously to transfer the headquarters of its chair man and secretary-general back to Hanoi, where the commission was based in 1954-58 (15 Canadians and 18 Poles will remain in Saigon). The move is expected to have little effect on the virtually dormant ICC...
...that India had provided a pretext for what they see as a downgrading of the commission. New Delhi, mean time, still has not named an ambassador to Hanoi. Shrugging off charges that the upgrading of relations with North Viet Nam may compromise India's neutral ity on the ICC, a government spokesman in New Delhi last week declared: "We have firm ideas of what happens to be in our national interest. Saigon hasn't got the stuffing to last...