Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight huge scarlet-silk lanterns mounted in Tien An Men Square, the "Gate of Heavenly Peace" that leads into Peking's Forbidden City, while thousands beat gongs and drums in welcome. And little plumes of smoke must have risen from under the collars of Ayub's SEATO and CENTO allies as they read reports of the talks that followed...
Prime Minister Menzies' government has tried to shape up defenses. Standing by its Commonwealth and SEATO commitments, Australia reinforced its expeditionary force in Malaysia, increased the number of Australian military advisers in South Viet Nam to 60. To bolster home defenses, the government ordered 100 supersonic Mirage jets from France and 24 TFX (now known as the F-111A) fighter-bombers from the U.S., plus three U.S.-made missile-firing destroyers and four British Oberon submarines. Last week Menzies carried the beef-up further, announced the reinstatement of the draft, which had been dropped...
...part of a plan to help Malaysia in its "confrontation" with hostile Indonesia. Australia also agreed to a U.S. request for more aid to South Viet Nam, and the government plans to increase its mission in Saigon, which now consists of only 30 army instructors. But Australia, a SEATO member and often hopefully regarded as the West's anchor in the South Pacific, is still woefully unable to back up its brave intentions...
...Manila, South Viet Nam got at least some moral support from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization at its tenth anniversary conference. Summarily rejecting a call by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a "political solution"-in other words, neutralism-in South Viet Nam, the seven other SEATO powers (U.S., Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan) vowed that "the defeat of the Communist campaign is essential not only to the security of South Viet Nam but to that of Southeast Asia." They called on SEATO members to "remain prepared if necessary to take further concrete...
...rejected the protection of SEATO and seemingly pulled away from the U.S. In the next couple of years, he denounced Communism and described U.S. aid as indispensable to keep Cambodia from falling to the Reds. In 1958 he recognized Red China, and ever since then he has continued to move in a zigzag pattern-or "sawtooth," as he himself frankly calls...