Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay in the Far East until the mid-1970s was not nearly long enough, was naturally upset by the new schedule, delivered to Dean Rusk in Washington by Foreign Secretary George Brown. Short of registering its displeasure, though, there is little that the U.S. can do: Britain's SEATO membership, which she plans to retain, calls for no specific troop commitment. Washington's other concern was Britain's $350 million aircraft order with the U.S. for F-111 fighters. Since at least a dozen were ordered for Far East duty, some cancellations are almost sure to occur...
...prize for clinical research went to Dr. Robert A. Phillips, 61, director of Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory at Dacca, East Pakistan, whose treatment for cholera victims (TIME, Oct. 5, 1959) has cut their death rate from 60% in 1955 to less than 1% today. Cholera, an intestinal infection spread in food and water contaminated by human waste, does not respond to drug treatment alone, kills mainly by dehydration. The key to recovery is in replacement of fluids and salts that the patient can lose at the rate of ten gallons a day through diarrhea...
Iowa-born Dr. Phillips, director of a Naval medical research unit in Taipei before joining SEATO two years ago, simplified a Rockefeller Institute technique for measuring a victim's need for fluids and salts, a process that until then had usually required sophisticated hospital equipment. Working mainly in East Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, he developed a new method of intravenous feeding with sodium bicarbonate and other salt solutions. This replacement allowed victims of cholera to outlast the disease until recovery could occur. Because it is cheap and so simple that trained laymen can use it, the Phillips treatment...
Defense Minister Healey said that Britain would honor its obligations to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization but that the forces pledged to SEATO would be altered in "nature and size." Warning against the assumption that "we will never again have to use our forces in the Far East," Healey said that in the next decade new air craft will enable Britain to move men into the area faster and in much larger numbers than now. Britain plans to base recently purchased U.S. F-111 jet fighter-bombers both in Singapore and in Australia. So far, there is no change...
...friends doubled, to $25,000, the previous reward for information that would lead to his return alive (and offered $10.000 for proof of his death). Thompson's Bangkok-based silk company sent back to the highlands for another careful look Richard Noone, 49, a British officer in SEATO who was once an adviser to the Malayan aborigines department. Noone, who knows the dialects and habits of the area's tribes, brought along a North Borneo border scout and an aborigine witch doctor. Thompson's friends flew in Peter Hurkos, the psychic Dutch crime detector who directed...