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...January 1955, the U.S., at Diem's request, took over the primary responsibility for the training of the Vietnamese army as part of Dulles' effort under the SEATO treaty to curb Communist subversion in Southeast Asia. Though the U.S. poured in lavish economic aid, the total U.S. military strength assigned to the Military Assistance Group did not exceed 2,000 men. But as the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas began increasing their terrorist attacks against the government, the U.S. started to get seriously concerned. In October 1961, General Maxwell D. Taylor visited South Viet Nam, came back with...
Though solidly allied with the U.S. as a member of SEATO and CENTO, Pakistan is getting ever cozier with Red China. Reason: anger over Western military aid to India, which the Pakistanis fear will not be used by New Delhi against China but to gain control of long-disputed Kashmir. President Ayub Khan argues forcefully that the U.S. is treating nonaligned India better than allied Pakistan, and that the U.S. at least should have extracted concessions on the Kashmir issue from India before offering...
...Force jet transport eased onto central Thailand's Korat airstrip from Hawaii last week and deposited 69 U.S. combat troops in battle dress. They were the advance unit of the two U.S. Army battle groups scheduled to participate in next month's SEATO maneuvers involving 25,000 troops from Thailand, the U.S., France, Britain, Pakistan and the Philippines. At SEATO headquarters in Bangkok, the purpose of the exercise was explained: "The operation supposes that out of tense conditions near the border of Thailand an enemy force crosses into this country in open aggression...
Across the Mekong. Though the SEATO battle plan was written months ago, recent events in neighboring Laos have given it pressing immediacy. Thailand today is particularly vulnerable to what U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Todd Young calls "aggression by seepage." Some 45,000 North Vietnamese, many of whom settled in Thailand during IndoChina's war against France, have been heavily infiltrated by Communist agents. Among the mountain tribes of the north, there is no sense of nationality and no loyalty to the central government in Bangkok. What is more, some 9,000,000 Thais of Lao stock live in the isolated...
...Units of the U.S. Seventh Fleet began cruising in the South China Sea, and though the move had been planned for months, Washington picked last week to announce that two combat-ready battle groups would soon move into Thailand to take part in next month's full-scale SEATO battle maneuvers. It was reminiscent of the crash buildup of troop strength in Thailand just a year ago, when the last serious flare-up in Laos took place. Left behind when these troops were withdrawn were enough trucks, tanks and personnel carriers to equip a third battle group that might...