Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army outposts back in Laos, nobody could explain. The three princes bucked to dreamy King Savang Vatthana the thorny task of picking a coalition government, a procedure that would effectively bypass the National Assembly, where Boun Oum still commands a strong anti-Communist majority. Boun Oum agreed to disown SEATO, which guarantees Laos against outside aggression, and to establish diplomatic relations with Laos' "neighbors," meaning Red China and North Viet Nam. The princes called for new elections and the departure of all foreign troops from Laos. "Details"' were to be worked out at the princes' next meeting...
Compromise. Since the West was not prepared to fight (De Gaulle told Kennedy flatly that he would not under any circumstances approve of any SEATO intervention involving the use of troops), it was prepared to keep on sitting at Geneva in the hope that something would turn up. At week's end, Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home launched yet another compromise plan, under which the U.S. would stop its airdrops of arms to pockets of troops stranded behind enemy lines, and the Communists would stop shooting. Gromyko told Harriman that this sounded fine-though there was reason...
...Thailand posed especially delicate problems for Johnson. One of the strongest anti-Communist nations in Southeast Asia, Thailand was fast losing its faith in the U.S. after the debacle in neighboring Laos. Johnson set the mood for his reassuring talks with Sarit by stopping off at Bangkok's SEATO headquarters building to deliver a blunt statement. "It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man-or a nation-can treasure liberty for himself," said Johnson, his voice sharpening as he spoke, "and be totally unconcerned for it when it involves other people in his own backyard." The Thais were...
...called on India's Nehru, and while in New Delhi, had a long talk with roving U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, who said later: "He thinks he is the man of the hour." Souvanna may be right. Last week British Foreign Secretary Lord Home rushed back from the SEATO meeting in Bangkok to have dinner with him in London. In Paris, Souvanna conferred with De Gaulle and awaited a call to Moscow-even as Khrushchev was grumpily wondering aloud to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson why "Souvanna doesn't go home where he can do some good," a thought that...
...famed for their ability to speak at great length without saying anything at all.* In sharp departure from this cherished British diplomatic tradition. Lord Home, 57, is addicted to clear and candid statements that sometimes border on indiscretion. Last week, just before flying off to Bangkok for the critical SEATO meeting on Laos, Lord Home confided to a Tory meeting some of his thoughts on British foreign policy. Items...