Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Communist agreement to a ceasefire. Under his scenario, an international force of perhaps 3,000 men, manning 300 monitoring posts, would supervise the ceasefire. As Vance sees it, there are a number of built-in advantages to his proposal. For one thing, it would leave each side in control of what it now has. Such control might lead to elections in which neither the Viet Cong nor the government of Nguyen Van Thieu would risk a total loss of power. Vance's expectation is that the Communists would win elections where they now have military and administrative control...
...including such doves as Albert Gore and Edward Brooke and such hawks as Henry Jackson and Barry Goldwater, urged the President to propose an internationally supervised "standstill" cease-fire for all forces in South Viet Nam. The term standstill means that opposing forces would remain in place, continuing to control the areas they now hold. As the Senators see it, the cease-fire would be the first of several steps: withdrawal of all foreign troops within a specified time after the shooting stops; free elections, supervised by a commission including both Saigon and N.L.F. members; guarantees of freedom of speech...
...plan is promising, but it also contains serious problems. The principal one is the continuing unwillingness of Hanoi and the N.L.F. even to consider an internationally supervised ceasefire. Finding a willing and effective international supervisory body will be almost as difficult. The International Control Commission, once active in Laos, has fallen into disuse, though it still exists in a legal sense. Nixon first made such a proposal on May 14, 1969, though he was well aware of the enormous difficulty of supervising the jigsaw-puzzle of opposing forces. Complicating the problem of control still further is the guerrilla war itself...
...also wanted the guerrillas to control a shoe factory, a clothing factory and shopping outlet and a sporting-goods store...
...confidential memos on Indonesia said in releasing them, "What they are essentially arguing for is an 'open-door' policy for Indonesia-and in a world economic system dominated by American capital, such an open door is a conveniently liberal way for American capital to extend its power and control...