Word: cento
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends of the U.S. until Washington began sending India arms in the wake of Red China's 1962 invasion. And, though Pakistan's resentment led to an increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both the SEATO and CENTO alliances that anchor the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern outposts of the free world's collective security system. As principal architect of that system, the U.S. is loath to see Pakistan wreck it by withdrawing in anger-particularly at a time when Charles de Gaulle threatens to wreck NATO...
...years of existence, the Central Treaty Organization has never been much of an alliance. One of the original members, Iraq, soon dropped out. As others-Iran, Pakistan and Turkey -became more chummy with Moscow, CENTO's essential purpose as a military shield against Communist aggression lost its urgency. Nevertheless, alliances seem to have a life of their own, and last week delegates from the CENTO nations gathered solemnly in Teheran for the 13th ministerial meeting. With the opening speeches out of the way, the delegates spent two days composing a communique that satisfied no one, yet had the sound...
...huge scarlet-silk lanterns mounted in Tien An Men Square, the "Gate of Heavenly Peace" that leads into Peking's Forbidden City, while thousands beat gongs and drums in welcome. And little plumes of smoke must have risen from under the collars of Ayub's SEATO and CENTO allies as they read reports of the talks that followed...
...called "Freeland" and, rather inappropriately, considering the conditions that prevail over much of well-refrigerated Russia, the invading forces were dubbed "Sun-land." But since Iran shares 1,500 miles of its northern border with Russia, the name did not fool anyone. Staged in cooperation with the mideast CENTO military alliance and planned by U.S. General Paul Adams' Tampa-based MEAFSA command (see box), the war games were clearly designed to buck up a nervous U.S. ally in whom the U.S. has invested one-half billion dollars in military assistance. Said one U.S. State Department planner: "We ought...
...poker-faced object of these salutations, China's Premier Chou Enlai, 65, arrived by chartered KLM plane for an eight-day visit to Pakistan, a nation of 100 million people that was once solidly pro-Western and is still a member of both CENTO and SEATO, which were set up for the purpose of containing Communism. Yet since 1962, Pakistan and Red China have 1) settled their border problems, 2) signed a trade agreement, and 3) made an air treaty under which Pakistan International Airlines will begin flights to Canton and Shanghai this summer, with reciprocal rights for Chinese...