Asian pact

• Eastern alliance
• Alliance until 1977
• Old anti-Communist assn.
• Defense grp. dissolved in 1977
• Defunct cousin of NATO
• NATO's defunct cousin
• Defunct defense alliance
• One-time NATO cousin
• "From ___ shining bygone international defense org. formed in Manila..."

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