Word: seato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surging economies that U.S. aid has helped create in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan; because of that strength, the Administration has requested $800 million in its foreign aid bill for economic assistance to Asia outside Viet Nam. Formal mutual-defense commitments such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) will be honored, but the U.S. will expect Asians to bear more of the military load. Counterinsurgency operations will be handled on a country-to-country basis. The basic premise is that the U.S. will support its allies in war, but will not fight for them...
...probably will have more points of contention to discuss with President Yahya Khan than with Mrs. Gandhi. Pakistan has drawn increasingly close to China in recent years, while doing nothing to discourage overtures from Moscow. Since Pakistan is technically a military ally of the U.S. under the CENTO and SEATO treaties, Nixon has every right to inquire about this trend. Yahya Khan will explain that China has taken Pakistan's side in the fight with India; as for Russia, the Pakistani reasoning is that those close relations are simply a sign that Pakistan wants to be friendly with everyone...
...SEATO naval exercise dubbed "Sea Spirit," Captain John P. Stevenson, skipper of the Australian aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne, dined on board in Manila Bay with several allied naval officers. Talk turned to the somber subject of collision. Five years earlier, Melbourne had sliced into an Australian destroyer, and 82 hands had been lost. Stevenson said that his country's morale could not stand another such mishap involving the fleet's flagship. Four nights later, his fears became fact...
...warm waters off Australia. Despite air conditioning, engine-room temperatures sometimes soared to 153 degrees. After a year in Australia, the catapult system developed a structural defect that grounded the carrier's aircraft for seven months. Two years later, the ship had to drop out of SEATO exercises when its boilers became overstrained. Until last week, the worst mishap had occurred in 1964. Freshly fitted and equipped, Melbourne went to sea and collided with H.M.A.S. Voyager. (This collision was determined later to have been the destroyer's fault.) The repairs cost a quarter of a million dollars. Four...
...declare." The drafters rejected a proposed constitutional phrase giving Congress the right to "make" war. "Declare" was substituted, and, say the authors, "clearly the framers intended to give the President the power to meet a sudden attack without a congressional declaration of war." In addition, Congress has ratified the SEATO Treaty, which provides for aid to member nations threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright conceded at the time gave the President the authority to use such force as could lead to war. Many U.S. Presidents have had much less support...