Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indo-China Region 2 825.6 709.6 1,535.2 Indonesia 670.9 670.9 Japan 2,660.7 1,033.1 3,693.8 Korea 3,431.4 2,002.2 5,433.6 Laos 291.9 169.8 461.7 Malaya 23.2 23.2 Philippines 1,334.4 418.8 1,753.2 Thailand 336.1 417.8 753.9 Viet Nam 1,699.3 742.4 2,441.7 SEATO 1.8 1.8 Regional 41.9 461.1 503.0 $13,743.2 $8,417.3 $22,160.5 MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA Cyprus 16.9 16.9 Greece 1,784.8 1,602.8 3,387.6 Iran 732.3 577.9 1,310.2 Iraq 21.6 46.1 67.7 Israel 874.7 3.0 877.7 Jordan 325.2 24.1 349.3 Lebanon 80.4 8.6 89.0 Saudi Arabia...
Understandably enough, the Pakistanis feel that they might as well not have joined SEATO. since the unaligned Indians are getting arms from the U.S. without having had to join any alliances. Pakistan also argues that if Washington and London expected it to accept Indian rearmament and not to take advantage of India's plight to invade Kashmir, then Nehru should have been required in turn to promise to settle the Kashmir issue. Although the U.S. got an Indian promise that the new arms would not be used against Pakistan, Ayub's government refused to be reassured. Ayub warned...
...There is only one course for the American people in this crisis of Communist aggression-to stand by the President." From the governments of the U.S.'s allies in NATO and SEATO too came strong, heartening assurances of support. Even more remarkable was the unanimity of the Latin American republics in endorsing the U.S. stand: at a Washington meeting of the Organization of American States, the delegates by a vote of 20 to 0 adopted a resolution calling for the "immediate dismantling and withdrawal from Cuba of all missiles...
...shave his head and maintain a thanksgiving vigil for seven days and nights. But Thailand's Marshal Sarit summoned his military commanders, ordered reinforcements to the area of the temple, which at the moment is under Thai control. Thailand even ordered its diplomats to boycott the meetings of SEATO...
...Right. This surge of Communist power alarmed the Eisenhower Administration, then engaged in trying to help President Ngo Dinh Diem of neighboring South Viet Nam preserve a pro-Western government against Red aggression. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had tried to seal off Southeast Asia by building the SEATO pact and encouraging anti-Communist allies. The U.S. Ambassador to Laos, J. Graham Parsons, distrusted Premier Souvanna Phouma both as a neutralist and a compromiser with the Reds. Withholding U.S. economic aid was enough to cause Souvanna's downfall, and he was replaced by a pro-Western Premier...