[Jeff Head]

I am afraid that after Vietnam, it pretty much became defunct and I believe was disbanded in 1977. Its primary purpose was to halt communist agression in SE Asia, After Vietnam, due to action requiring unanimous vote, when we failed to act in Lao it pretty much ended.

Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States were the original signators.

[jriemer]

I am afraid that after Vietnam, it pretty much became defunct and I believe was disbanded in 1977. Its primary purpose was to halt communist agression in SE Asia, After Vietnam, due to action requiring unanimous vote, when we failed to act in Lao it pretty much ended.

Chalk this up as another failure of the Carter Administration.