Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observe for the record that I consider this unusually rusty," said the Canadian, examining the grenade, while the crump of artillery and air strikes echoed across from South Viet Nam...
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...
...that the Geneva Conference ended the French-Indo-China war and created three control commissions (for Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) to supervise the cease-fire and to prevent future violations of its agreements. The commission in Viet Nam-the largest and most important-has held more than 750 full meetings and filed eleven weighty reports on its mission. Without exception, they are chronicles of frustration: the ICC has simply not been able to curb violations, or, for that matter, prevent a war. Its composition-an ideological troika-has rendered impossible the unanimous agreement required for any assessment as laid...
...when the two sides began girding for a bigger conflict, Saigon refused to allow the ICC to see the manifests of incoming aircraft (loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...
...Indian-Canadian majority report condemned Hanoi for infiltrating men and material into the South, while finding Saigon guilty of a "de facto military alliance" with the U.S. Both actions were in contravention of the 1954 agreements. Later, an Indian-Polish majority report inveighed against U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. No one heeded any of the complaints...