Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there, billions of dollars were poured in, and by the second five year plan, ended last year, the GNP was growing at over 6 per cent annum. Pakistan also received over two billion dollars in military aid after the she committed herself to the West in 1954 by joining SEATO. The weapons were supposedly to be used only against a possible Russian invasion through the Kyber Pass...
...most trusted 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...
...Cement. While Nehru's India preached neutralism, Pakistan early joined every alliance in sight. It was an original member of CENTO, it belongs to SEATO, and would have joined NATO if it could have. Pakistan signed a bilateral defense treaty with the U.S. in 1954 and supplied the U.S. with the Peshawar airfield as a convenient base for U-2 spy planes flying over Russia...
...South Viet Nam all along, last week he called a Cabinet meeting to discuss, among other things, the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, and a spokesman disclosed that "France disapproves and wants the withdrawal of troops who have landed in Santo Domingo." He underscored his virtual withdrawal from SEATO by sending only an observer to last week's SEATO conference in London. Running out of targets, he even took a swipe at Britain's commitment to defend Malaysia if Sukarno's Indonesia ever decides to carry out its threat to "crush" the new nation...
...French evidently think that even token participation in SEATO could be construed as support for U.S. policies in Viet Nam. The Quai d'Orsay therefore announced that it would send only an "observer" to next week's annual SEATO meeting in London, though all other members are sending foreign ministers. "Deplorable," declared the conference's British hosts, who had been flattering themselves that their understanding with De Gaulle was rather good since Harold Wilson's visit to Paris four weeks ago, and had hoped that the French might underwrite a condemnation of Indonesian aggression in Malaysia...