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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...
...South Viet Nam, which they believe will assure them of their ultimate goal. Besides the prospect of massive reconstruction aid from the U.S. for both Viet Nams-which Hanoi drastically needs to rebuild its industrial plant, destroyed by bombs-the North Vietnamese have an additional motive for making the truce work. They have traditionally played China off against Russia and vice versa; now they have a chance to add a third player to that game...
That was the bloodiest area of battle as the hour passed in which all shooting in Viet Nam was supposed to stop. Both sides fought viciously to seize and hold tiny bits of territory, sometimes of strategic, but often only of symbolic value, before the truce supervisory bodies would arrive to validate the claims of defacto control. These battles for the "leopard spots" of South Viet Nam took a heavy toll. By week's end the South Vietnamese claimed to have killed 3,513 Communist soldiers after the cease-fire deadline, and they admitted the loss...
...They abruptly reversed their longstanding refusal to deal with military and political matters separately. Communist spokesmen suggested that Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma was overoptimistic in his prediction that a cease-fire in Laos would come within 15 days of one in South Viet Nam, but they agreed that a truce would come soon. Lending a helping hand, the Soviet Union offered to fly negotiators between the capital of Vientiane and the Communist stronghold of Samneua, about 200 miles away...