Abbreviations and Terms

• • ADB, Asian Development Bank
  • AF, Air Force
  • AFP, Armed Forces of the Philippines
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • ANZUS, Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty
  • APC, armored personnel carrier
  • ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
  • ASAP, as soon as possible
  • ASD (ISA), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • ASEAN, Association of South East Asian Nations
  • ASW, antisubmarine warfare
  • AWACS, Airborne Warning and Control System
  • AWOL, Absent Without Leave
• • BCP, Burmese Communist Party
  • BOP, Balance of Payments
  • BPP, Border Patrol Police
• • CC, carbon copy
  • CEMA, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
  • CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIEC, Conference on International Economic Cooperation
  • CIF, Chinese Irregular Forces
  • CIL, Central Identification Laboratory (Department of Defense facility in Hawaii)
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
  • CINCPACAF, Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces
  • CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet
  • CINCPACREPPHIL, Commander in Chief, Pacific Representative, Philippines
  • CODEL, Congressional Delegation
  • COM, Chief of Mission
  • COMECON, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
  • CONUS, contiguous United States
  • CPT, Communist Party Thailand
  • CRS, Catholic Relief Services
• • D, Democrat
  • DAS, Deputy Assistant Secretary
  • DC, developed country
  • DCA, Defense Communications Agency
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency
  • DFA, Department of Foreign Affairs
  • D/HA/PW, Office of Prisoner of War and Missing In Action Matters, Department of State
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DK, Democratic Kampuchea
  • DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOD/ISA, Department of Defense, International Security Affairs
  • dols, U.S. dollars
• • EA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
  • EA/ANP, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Island Affairs, Department of State
  • EA/ANZ, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Australia and New Zealand, Department of State
  • EA/IMS, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Department of State
  • EA/PHL, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of the Philippines, Department of State
  • EA/PRCM, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia Affairs, Department of State
  • EA/RA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • EA/T, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Thailand, Department of State
  • EA/TB, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Thailand and Burma, Department of State
  • EA/TIMBS, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma and Singapore, Department of State
  • EA/VLC, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, Department of State
  • EC, European Community
  • ECOSOC, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
  • EEC, European Economic Community
  • EmbOff, Embassy Officer
  • EXDIS, Exclusive Distribution
  • EXIM, Export and Import
• • FAO, Foreign Affairs Office
  • FMS, Foreign Military Sales
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FSO, Foreign Service Officer
  • FY, Fiscal Year
• • GNP, Gross National Product
  • GNZ, Government of New Zealand
  • GOA, Government of Australia
  • GOI, Government of Indonesia
  • GOJ, Government of Japan
  • GOM, Government of Malaysia
  • GOP, Government of the Philippines
  • GOS, Government of Singapore
  • GSP, General System of Preferences
  • GSRV, Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  • GUB, Government of the Union of Burma
  • GVN, Government of Vietnam
• • HA, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State
  • HA/ORM, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs, Department of State
  • HB, Harold Brown
  • HE, His Excellency
  • HEW, Department of Health, Education & Welfare
• • IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
  • IBP, Integrated Bar of the Philippines
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • ICC, International Control Commission
  • ICEM, Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration
  • ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
  • IDCA, International Development Cooperation Agency
  • IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development
  • IFI, International Financial Institutions
  • IGGI, Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia
  • IMET, International Military Education and Training
  • IMF/IBRD, International Monetary Fund/International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • INA, Immigration and Nationality Act
  • INFCE, International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • INR/REA, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service
  • IO, International Organizations; Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IO/UNP, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IRS, Internal Revenue Service
  • ISA, International Sugar Agreement
• • JCRC, Joint Casualty Resolution Center
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JUSMAG, Joint United States Military Assistance Group
  • JUSMAGTHAI, Joint United States Military Assistance Group—Thailand
• • KBL, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (New Society Movement)—Philippine political party
  • KEG, Kampuchea Emergency Group
  • KPNLF, Khmer People’s National Liberation Front
• • LAW, Light Anti-tank Weapon
  • LDC, less-developed country
  • Limdis, limited distribution
  • LNG, Liquefied Natural Gas
  • LOA, Letter of Offer and Acceptance
  • LPDR, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
• • MAG, Military Assistance Group
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • MBA, Military Bases Agreement
  • MBFR, Mutual Balanced Force Reductions
  • MDT, Mutual Defense Treaty
  • Memcon, memorandum of conversation
  • memo, memorandum
  • MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • MIA, Missing In Action
  • MNLF, Moro National Liberation Front, Philippine political organization
  • MOI, Ministry of the Interior
  • MPS, Maritime Pre-Position Ship
  • MTN, Multilateral Trade Negotiations
• • NAM, Nonaligned Movement
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NEZ, New Economic Zones
  • NF, No Foreign Dissemination
  • NFAC, National Foreign Assessment Center
  • NIT, National Intelligence Test
  • Nocontract, No Dissemination to Contractors
  • Noforn, No Dissemination to Foreign Nationals
  • Notal, Not Received by all Addressees
  • NPA, New People’s Army, armed wing of the Communist party in the Philippines
  • NPW, nuclear powered warship
  • NSA, National Security Agency
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NSC–EPG, National Security Council-Economic Policy Group
  • Nodis, No Distribution
  • NZ, New Zealand
• • OBE, overtaken by events
  • ODP, Orderly Departure Program
  • OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • OMB, Office of Management and Budget
  • OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  • Orcon, Controlled by Originator
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• • P, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State
  • PACOM, Pacific Command
  • PARA, Policy Analysis and Resource Allocation
  • PAVN, People’s Army of Vietnam
  • PC, percent
  • PermRep, Permanent Representative
  • PL–480, Food for Peace Program–-public law 480
  • PLA, People’s Liberation Army (China)
  • PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
  • PNG, Papua New Guinea
  • POLAD, Foreign Policy Advisor Program, Department of State
  • POL, petroleum, oil, & lubricants
  • POW, prisoner of war
  • PRC, People’s Republic of China; Policy Review Committee
  • PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam
  • PriMin, Prime Minister
  • PRK, People’s Republic of Kampuchea
  • PRM, Presidential Review Memorandum
  • PVO, Private Voluntary Organization
  • PX, Post Exchange
• • reftel, Reference Telegram
  • RIMPAC, Rim of the Pacific
  • RLG, Royal Laotian Government
  • ROK, Republic of Korea
  • RP, Republic of the Philippines
  • RPC, Refugee Processing Centers
  • RT, right
  • RTA, Royal Thai Army
  • RTG, Royal Thai Government
  • R&R, Rest and Relaxation
• • S, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/R, Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/S-O, Operations Center, Office of the Secretary of State
  • SALT, Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
  • SAM, Surface-to-Air Missile
  • SEA, Southeast Asia
  • SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • SecDef, Secretary of Defense
  • septel, separate telegram
  • SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • SOFA, Status of Forces Agreement
  • SocDems, Social Democrats
  • SPC, Special Processing Center (for refugees)
  • SPNWFZ, South Pacific Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
  • SPRFO, South Pacific Regional Fisheries Organization
  • SRUB, Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
  • SRV, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  • SSA, Security Supporting Assistance
  • Stadis, State distribution
  • STR, Special Trade Representative
  • SUA, Shan United Army
• • TDY, Temporary Duty
  • TOW, Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided Missile
  • TTPI, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• • UMNO, United Malays National Organisation
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  • UNDAC, United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination
  • UNFDAC, United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • UNSC, United Nations Security Council
  • US, United States
  • USAF, United States Air Force
  • USG, United States Government
  • USNATO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• • VBB, Vance, Brzezinski, Brown
  • VIP, very important person
  • VN, Vietnam
  • VOA, Voice of America
  • VOLAG, Voluntary Agencies (which helped with refugee resettlement in the United States)
• • WestPac, Western Pacific
  • WFP, World Food Programme
  • WH, White House
  • WSSSFAF, Wartime Standard Support System for Foreign Armed Forces
• • Z, Zulu (Greenwich Mean) Time