Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence in Saigon was necessary to help untangle the intricate web of arrangements on which the truce depends. The Joint Military Commission needed all four members-from the U.S., North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam and the Viet Cong-before it could begin to work out procedures, let alone stop truce violations by either side. The J.M.C. had to be operating before the International Commission of Control and Supervision-otherwise known as the CHIP commission, after its members. Canada, Hungary, Indonesia and Poland-could get down to business...
Meanwhile the four-power CHIP commission marked time, waiting for the military commission to get moving. While they were waiting, the 1,160 members of the truce commission -Hungarians wearing their unusual pointed hats, Canadians in the dark green short pants of a kind that had not been seen in Saigon since French colonial days-seemed to be all over the capital. By week's end they, too, were sending out preliminary teams to inspect regional headquarter sites at Pleiku, Danang...
...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...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "The Girl and Her Trust" and "A, Temporary Truce" by D.W. Griffith and "Western History" by Stan Brakhage, "Nostalgia" by Hollis Frampton and "Running Shadow" by Robert Fulton. Feb. 8, 7:30, $1. Vladimir and Rosa by the Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) Feb. 11, 7:30, free (sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
LAOS AND CAMBODIA. The U.S. hopes to achieve a cease-fire in Laos and Cambodia soon after the truce in Viet Nam. Although there is no provision in any version of the treaty that requires a cease-fire throughout Indochina, Kissinger contends that the required withdrawal of foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia and the prohibition of base areas there will bring about an end to military action in those countries faster than had been expected...