Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volunteers had met with little success: only Pakistan and Thailand, of all the non-Communist nations on the Asian continent, agreed to come, and Pakistan had made it clear that it would merely be looking, not necessarily buying. (The other six participants: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
Acceptances: Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan...
...regional defense against further Communist penetration of Southeast Asia. Its guarantees would probably include the protection of Laos, Cambodia and South Viet Nam, although these countries, with their freedom restricted by the Geneva agreement, might not be able to join SEATO. Probable signatories: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines, possibly Burma and Ceylon. Likely conference site: Baguio, the Philippines' mountainside summer capital. Probable date of the conference: early September. The meeting will be brief, allowing enough time for the foreign ministers to hurry to New York for another fight against Communist infiltration, at the convening...
Shale & Possums. Trouble came soon and often. As the 249 competing cars (including 30 different makes) streamed out of Sydney toward Brisbane early this month, small boys stoned them from the roadside. Drivers got lost when wise guys switched highway markers around. A New Zealand entrant burned his hands beating out an engine fire, and 20 cars bogged down in mud. By the time the pack passed the first check point, drivers and officials were already wrangling over penalties...
...part, bulky General Srisdi prepared to double the number of officers and noncoms in training, introduce a one-year officer's training program to supplement the present five-year curriculum, and increase his army to 100,000 strong from its present 65,000 (roughly equal to New Zealand...