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...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...
...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...
...stay in the Far East until the mid-1970s was not nearly long enough, was naturally upset by the new schedule, delivered to Dean Rusk in Washington by Foreign Secretary George Brown. Short of registering its displeasure, though, there is little that the U.S. can do: Britain's SEATO membership, which she plans to retain, calls for no specific troop commitment. Washington's other concern was Britain's $350 million aircraft order with the U.S. for F-111 fighters. Since at least a dozen were ordered for Far East duty, some cancellations are almost sure to occur...
...prize for clinical research went to Dr. Robert A. Phillips, 61, director of Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory at Dacca, East Pakistan, whose treatment for cholera victims (TIME, Oct. 5, 1959) has cut their death rate from 60% in 1955 to less than 1% today. Cholera, an intestinal infection spread in food and water contaminated by human waste, does not respond to drug treatment alone, kills mainly by dehydration. The key to recovery is in replacement of fluids and salts that the patient can lose at the rate of ten gallons a day through diarrhea...
Iowa-born Dr. Phillips, director of a Naval medical research unit in Taipei before joining SEATO two years ago, simplified a Rockefeller Institute technique for measuring a victim's need for fluids and salts, a process that until then had usually required sophisticated hospital equipment. Working mainly in East Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, he developed a new method of intravenous feeding with sodium bicarbonate and other salt solutions. This replacement allowed victims of cholera to outlast the disease until recovery could occur. Because it is cheap and so simple that trained laymen can use it, the Phillips treatment...