WITNESSING the rebirth of an International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICC) for Viet Nam is rather like seeing an extinct species spring magically back to life. Soon after the old ICC—which still exists, in vestigial form—was created by the Geneva agreements in 1954, it settled down into a routine of quarrelsome impotence. Lacking any mutually acceptable alternative, Washington and Hanoi seemed determined to try again with a peace-keeping mechanism that has a proven history of failure.
If numbers, props and pledges count, however, the new ICC team that began to arrive in...
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