Bangkok-based org

• Grp. that disbanded 6/30/1977
• NATO's former kin
• Former Pacific defense gp.
• Former treaty acronym
• "From --- shining..."
• Defense gp. formed in Manila
• One-time NATO cousin
• "From ___ shining . . . "

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1954, acronym for Southeast Asia Treaty Organization .