Abbreviations and Terms

• • ACDA, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AGIP, General Italian Oil Company (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli)
  • AID, U.S. Agency for International Development
  • AN–22, Soviet military transport designed by the Antonov Design Bureau
  • AP, Associated Press
• • BHN, basic human needs
  • BP, British Petroleum
• • C–130, military cargo plane
  • CAE, Central African Empire
  • CAT, Conventional Arms Transfer
  • CEAO, Economic Community of West Africa (Communauté Économique de l’Afrique de l’Ouest)
  • CH–47C, Chinook helicopter
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIEC, Conference on International Economic Cooperation
  • CILSS, Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (Comité permanent Inter-États de Luttes contre la Sécheresse au Sahel).
  • COMIDEASTFOR, Commander, Middle East Forces
• • DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOE, Department of Energy
• • ECOWAS, Economic Community of West African States
  • EEC, European Economic Community
  • EG, Equatorial Guinea
  • ELF, France Gasoline and Lubricants (Essence et Lubrifiants de France)
  • ELINT, electronic intelligence
  • EPA, Environmental Protection Agency
  • ERA, Economic Regulatory Administration
  • ESF, Emergency Support Function
  • EST, eastern standard time
  • EUCOM, U.S. European Command
  • EXIM, Export-Import Bank of the United States
• • F5–E, U.S. supersonic jet fighter designed by the Northrop Corporation
  • FAPLA, Peoples Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola (Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola)
  • FAZ, Zairian armed forces (Forces Armées Zairoïses)
  • FERC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • FGN, Federal Government of Nigeria
  • FMG, Federal Military Government of Nigeria
  • FMS, Foreign Military Sales
  • FNLC, National Front for the Liberation of the Congo
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FPC, Federal Power Commission
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
• • G–77, Group of 77, a United Nations intergovernmental group of developing countries
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
  • GNP, gross national product
  • GOCAE, Government of the Central African Empire
  • GOCV, Government of Cape Verde
  • GOF, Government of France
  • GOG, Government of Guinea
  • GOK, Government of Kenya
  • GOL, Government of Liberia
  • GOU, Government of Uganda
  • GSP, Generalized System of Preferences
• • HEW, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, predecessor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • HIRC, House International Relations Committee
• • IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
  • IAF, Inter-African Forces
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration, predecessor to the U.S. Agency for International Development
  • IDCA, International Development Corporation Agency
  • IFI, international financial institutions
  • IG, Inspector General
  • ILHR, International League for Human Rights, United Nations
  • ILO, International Labour Organization
  • IMET, International Military and Education Training
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
• • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JFK, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• • LAMCO, Liberian-American-Swedish Mining Company
  • LANDSAT, program to acquire satellite imagery of Earth, administered through the U.S. Geological Survey
  • LDC, less developed country
  • LNG, liquefied natural gas
  • LPH, landing platform helicopter
  • LTG, Lieutenant General
• • MAC, Military Air Command
  • MGen, Major General
  • MIG–21, Soviet supersonic jet fighter designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau
  • MOD, Ministry of Defense
  • MPLA, People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Merimento Popular de Libertacão de Angola)
  • MPR, Popular Revolutionary Movement (Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution) (Zaire)
  • MT, metric ton
  • MTT, mobile training teams
• • NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • NAM, Non-Aligned Movement
  • NAS, National Academy of Sciences
  • NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NCC, French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de L’homme)
  • NCO, Non-commissioned Officer
  • NFAC, National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence Agency
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NIH, National Institutes of Health
  • NNPC, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
  • NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • NPT, Non-proliferation Treaty
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NSF, National Science Foundation
  • NUC, National Universities Commission (Nigeria)
• • OAU, Organization of African Unity
  • OGEDEP, National Debt Management Office (Zaire)
  • OJCS, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • OMB, Office of Management and Budget
  • OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• • PL, public law
  • PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
  • POL, petroleum oil lubricants
  • POW, prisoner of war
  • PPP, Progressive People’s Party (Liberia)
  • PRA, People’s Republic of Angola
  • PRC, People’s Redemption Council (Liberia)
  • PriMin, Prime Minister
  • PRM, Presidential Review Memorandum
• • rpt, repeat
  • reftel, reference telegram
• • S&T, science and technology
  • SA–3, Soviet surface-to-air missile system
  • SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
  • SAM, surface-to-air missiles
  • SAWG, Special Activities Working Group
  • SCC, Special Coordinating Committee
  • SDR, Special Drawing Right, an international reserve asset created by the International Monetary Fund
  • septel, separate telegram
  • SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • STR, Special Trade Representative
  • SWAPO, South West African People’s Organization
• • T–34, World War II-era military tank
  • TU–95, Soviet strategic bomber and missile platform
  • TOW, tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank missiles
  • TPDF, Tanzania People’s Defense Force
  • TWA, Trans World Airlines
• • UN, United Nations
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNICEF, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
  • UNITA, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola)
  • UNLF, Uganda National Liberation Front
  • UNO, Ugandan Nationalist Organization
  • UNSC, United Nations Security Council
  • UPA, Ugandan People’s Congress
  • UPC, Ugandan People’s Congress (Union pour le Progrès National)
  • UPG, Ugandan People’s Government
  • UPI, United Press International
  • UPM, Ugandan People’s Movement
  • UPRONA, Union for National Progress
  • USAF, U.S. Air Force
  • USAID, U.S. Agency for International Development
  • USCINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
  • USCINCNAVEUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Navy, Europe
  • USDOC, U.S. Department of Commerce
  • USEUCOM, U.S. European Command
  • USG, U.S. Government
  • USICA, U.S. International Cooperation Administration
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• • VOA, Voice of America
  • VP, Vice President
• • ZANU, Zimbabwe African National Union
  • ZAPU, Zimbabwe African People’s Union