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Citing one example of the difficulty in negotiating, Kissinger noted that Hanoi was arguing that a 250-man international truce-supervision team, without any Jeeps, telephones or radios of its own to use in investigating violations, would be adequate. The U.S. believes that a fully equipped force of at least several thousand is necessary. "The North Vietnamese perception of international machinery and our perception is at drastic variance," said Kissinger...
...with the enemy-aimed at weakening the enemy's forces and strengthening ours." The U.S. State Department, too, apparently anticipates an early settlement; 100 Foreign Service officers have been told to stand by to travel to South Viet Nam to serve, among other duties, as observers watching for truce violations at least until a more formal four-nation commission can take over the task...
...supervise the postwar elections and a new political arrangement for governing South Viet Nam. Also debated were the problems involved in establishing cease-fires in Laos and Cambodia when fighting stops in Viet Nam, and the details of getting a proposed International Control Commission into operation to supervise the truce...
...governments involved, a time limit on the commission's existence, an understanding that the supervisory force be unarmed, nonmilitary and confined to observation and supervision, and the creation of some parent multinational body to which to report its findings. Also, Canada insists that reports of a truce violation need not be unanimous. Explained one official: "Under the old I.C.C., the Canadian might have observed an infraction, the Indian said, 'I don't see anything,' and the Pole suggested, 'Let's all go have a drink...
...Provisionals were plainly trying to win back by force a place at the conference table that they have been denied since last summer's fragile truce broke down and they resumed bombing. Last week British Prime Minister Edward Heath revealed in Parliament that I.R.A. truce feelers had recently been made again through intermediaries, but the Provisionals' conditions for political talks are unacceptable to the British: a declaration of British intent to quit Northern Ireland, withdrawal of troops to their barracks, and a general amnesty. The British government is no longer interested, and not only out of fear...