Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been able to visit a peaceful Vietnam by 1967. America has spent six years consuming lives and dollars in Vietnam, but no one is quite sure why we're still there. Goldberg says we are waiting to negotiate. Rusk would like to contain Chinese expansionism and reaffirm the SEATO treaty. Johnson wants to bring back "the coonskin on the wall...
What University of California Political Scientist Ernst Haas calls "ever-expanding islands of cooperation" have grown markedly in the past two decades. The military associations-NATO, CENTO and SEATO-stemmed from the threat of Communist aggression. Partly because of their success, they are now somewhat in disarray, looking for new, mainly diplomatic functions. The political groupings, from the Council of Europe to the creaky Arab League, are mere debating societies. By far the most important and promising groupings are economic, and the model that inspires all of them is the Common Market. By bringing down tariff barriers within a vast...
...Korea in the 1950s." For this, it argues, the President is solely responsible. Not until well after Johnson was safely elected in 1964, the document points out, did he openly commit U.S. ground forces to combat in Viet Nam. Nor was this decision forced upon him by the SEATO treaty or by "any other obligation entered into by an earlier Administration...
...Pote Sarasin, 59, the U.S.-educated (Wilbraham Academy) lawyer who is Minister for National Development. Briefly Premier, onetime secretary-general of SEATO, Pote, more than any man, has presided over Thailand's orderly growth in recent years. He is unabashedly pro-American-and notably popular at home...
...roar of a Pakistani Air Force flyby, led by four silvery MIG-19s. A flock of American-supplied aircraft trailed cautiously at the rear, mostly B57 bombers, F-86 Sabres and F-104 Starfighters. Ayub's armory had a new look, and he was flaunting it before his SEATO and CENTO allies...