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...start the ICC is powerless without the cooperation of the antagonists. Talk of the ICC "policing" the border is largely wishful thinking. Lacking any sort of military backing, about all the team can do is collect information on violations, write out reports, and hope the U.S. and the V.C. will listen...
...ICC were good at collecting information, this wouldn't be so bad. Unfortunately, it has proved a singularly inept detective...
...requires. They are organized into two sorts of units: "fixed" teams which are now largely useless in a shadowy guerrilla war: and all-important "mobile" teams, which hardly deserve the label. Not even land transport is abundant. Nonpayment by Geneva conference members, who supposedly share the costs of the ICC has placed the operating expenses on the shoulders of the Poles, Canadians, and Indians. Naturally, they have not inclined toward extravagance...
Structural defects, however have proved far more crippling than poor logistics and organization. Unlike similar UN observation teams elsewhere, the ICC has never managed to stay aloof from the conflicts it superintends. Its tripartite composition--each team consists of a Communist Pole, Western Canadian, and neutral Indian--has made the ICC as much a forum for propagandizing as an objective mediator...
...problem is the Geneva accord stipulations on unanimity. The accord refers vaguely to the ICC's power of making "recommendations" by a simple majority vote--two of its three members. But "on questions concerning violations or threats of violation" of the armistice, the Commission must be unanimous. In general, the Commission has decided "procedural" matters by majority, but required unanimity on all investigatory issues...