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...Navy sent its Charleston-based ships to seato avoid Hugo, while crews were called yesterdayto their ships at Mayport Naval Station nearJacksonville for a possible move...
...virtually no one proposes that this should be done now. However much an anachronism the alliance may have become, it would be a mistake for Washington to shut it down, especially in the wake of the post-Viet Nam retrenchment and the demise of CENTO'S Far Eastern cousin, SEATO. Says a top official of the Carter Administration: "Killing CENTO off now would be sending everybody all the wrong signals at the wrong time...
...Kissinger took time out from his U.N. rounds to attend the quiet burial of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the alliance founded in 1954 to contain the expansion of Communist regimes in Southeast Asia. He and the representatives of the active members of SEATO-Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand-decided that the alliance, "in the light of the new situation in the Southeast Asian region, should be phased out." Thailand and the Philippines were becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the treaty at a time when they had begun to seek improved relations with Peking, and with Hanoi emerging...
Aside from the question of the raids' effectiveness, there was also considerable debate as to whether the bombing violated U.S. law. In contrast to Viet Nam, Cambodia is not a member of SEATO and has no defense treaty with the U.S. Lyndon Johnson used to cite the Tonkin Gulf Resolution as his authority to wage war in Indochina, but Congress repealed that resolution in 1971. Indeed, after the "incursion" of 1970, Congress specifically barred the use of U.S. combat forces in Cambodia. The final justification-that U.S. air raids defended American troops in Viet Nam-vanished when the last...
Another serious problem with the U.S. withdrawal proposal of October 11 is it does not firmly prohibit the reintroduction of American forces into Vietnam or the surrounding area. sAs Secretary Rogers told the editors on January 27, "We have a defense treaty with Thailand, the SEATO treaty, and Thailand is not involved in the war as Cambodia and Laos are. So we would expect that we would, at least for the short run, continue to have some Americans in Thailand. But that doesn't affect the settlement in Indochina...