Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume I,
Foundations of Foreign Policy
Abbreviations and Terms
-
- ABA, American
Bar Association
- ABC, American
Broadcasting Company
- ABM,
anti-ballistic missile
- ACDA, Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency
- ADB, Asian
Development Bank; also African Development Bank
- Adm.,
admiral
- Admin.,
administrator
- Adv.,
advisor
- AEC, Atomic
Energy Commission
- AEI, American
Enterprise Institute
- AEPRP,
African Economic Policy Reform Program
- AF, Bureau of
African Affairs, Department of State
- AFL–CIO,
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations
- AG, Attorney
General
- AID, Agency
for International Development
- AIDS,
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- AIT, American
Institute in Taiwan
- ALCM,
air-launched cruise missile
- Amb.,
ambassador
-
AMH,
Alexander Meigs Haig
- ANC, African
National Congress
- ANZUS,
Australia-New Zealand-United States (security treaty)
- AP, Associated
Press
- APNSA,
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
- APPV,
approved
- APRA,
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
(American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), Peru
- ARA, Bureau
of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
- ARDE,
Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática
(Democratic Revolutionary Alliance), Nicaragua
- ARENA,
Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (National
Republican Alliance), El Salvador
- ASAT or ASW,
anti-satellite weapon or talks
- ASEAN,
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ASNE,
American Society of Newspaper Editors
- ATBMs,
anti-tactical ballistic missiles
- AVF,
All-Volunteer Force
- AW, Allen
Wallis
- AWACS,
Advanced/Airborne Warning and Control System
-
- B,
billion
- B–1,
U.S. long-range bomber
- B–52, all
weather, intercontinental, strategic heavy bomber
- Backfire, Soviet long-range bomber
- BDM,
Braddock, Dunn & McDonald (U.S. technical services firm)
- Benelux,
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
- BIB, Board
for International Broadcasting
- Blackjack, bomber
- BMD,
ballistic missile defense
- Brig.,
Brigadier
- BW, biological
weapons
-
- C, Counselor of
the Department of State
- C3 or C3, command, control,
communications
- C–130,
high-wing, 4 turbo prop engine aircraft used for rapid
transportation of troops and/or equipment
- Cab.,
cabinet
- CARE,
Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere
- CARICOM,
Caribbean Community and Common Market
- CBC, Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
- CBI,
Caribbean Basin Initiative
- CBM,
confidence-building measures
- CBS, Columbia
Broadcasting System
- CBW, chemical
and biological warfare; also chemical and biological weapons
- CCC,
Commodity Credit Corporation
- CCD,
Conference of the Committee on Disarmament
- CD, Committee
on Disarmament (United Nations)
- CDE,
Conference on Disarmament in Europe
- CDU,
Christlich Demokratische Union (Christian
Democratic Union), Federal Republic of Germany
-
CEM,
Clayton E. McManaway
- CEMA,
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- CENTO,
Central Treaty Organization
- CEO, chief
executive officer
-
CH,
Charles Hill
- Charter
77, informal association of Czech dissidents and
their signed manifesto deploring the repression of human rights in
Czechoslovakia
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CINCAD,
Commander in Chief, Aerospace Defense Command
- CINCLANT, Commander in Chief, Atlantic
Command
- CINCMAC,
Commander in Chief, Military Airlift Command
- CINCPAC,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
- CINCSAC,
Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command
- CINCUNC,
Commander in Chief, United Nations Command
- CINCUSAFE, Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces Europe
- CINCUSAREUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe
- CINCUSNAVEUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe
- CMC,
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
- CNN, Cable
News Network
- CNO, Chief of
Naval Operations
- COB, close of
business
- COCOM,
Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
- Codel,
congressional delegation
- Col.,
colonel
- COMECON,
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- Con.,
concurrent
- Contadora
Group, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and
Panama
- Contras,
term used by Sandinistas to refer to guerrilla forces fighting
against them
- Corp,
corporation
- CORRTEX,
Continuous Reflectrometry for Radius Versus Time Experiments (a
hydro-dynamic yield measurement for nuclear testing)
-
CP or CLP,
Colin L. Powell
- CPAC,
Conservative Political Action Conference
- CPSU,
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- CRS, Catholic
Relief Services
- CSA, Chief of
Staff, United States Army
- CSAF, Chief
of Staff, United States Air Force
- CSCE,
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- CSIS, Center
for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University
- CSU,
Christlich-Soziale Union (Christian Social
Union), Federal Republic of Germany
- CTW, Cuban
Troop Withdrawal
- CW, chemical
weapons or warfare
-
CW or CWW,
Caspar W. Weinberger
-
- D, Office of
the Deputy Secretary of State; also Democrat
- DA,
development assistance
- DCL, Direct
Communications Link (“hotline”)
- DCM, Deputy
Chief of Mission
- Dep,
deputy
- Dep. Sec.,
Deputy Secretary
- Dept.,
Department
- DFL,
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
- Dir.,
director
- Dist,
distribution, distributed
- DM, Deutche
Mark
- DNA,
Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNC,
Democratic National Committee
- DOD,
Department of Defense
- DOD/ISP,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Policy
- DOE,
Department of Energy
- DPC, Defense
Planning Committee (NATO); also
Domestic Policy Council
- DPRK,
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
-
- E, Under
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
- EA or EAP,
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
- EAL,
Ethiopian Air Lines
- EAP/J,
Office of Japanese Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State
- EB, Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
- EC, European
Community
- EC–121,
unarmed, four engine propeller-driven reconnaissance aircraft
- ECSC,
European Coal and Steel Community
- EE, Eastern
Europe
- EEC, European
Economic Community
- EITCA,
Economic, Industrial, Technical Cooperation Agreement
- Emboffs,
embassy officials
- ENDC,
Eighteen Nation Disarmament Conference
- EOB,
Executive Office Building
- EPC, Economic
Policy Council
- EPCOT,
Experimental Planned Community of Tomorrow (a component of Disney
World)
- EPG,
Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group
- EPI, Economic
Policy Initiative for Africa
- ERW, enhanced
radiation weapon
- ESF, Economic
Support Fund
- ET, emerging
technologies
- EU, European
Union
- EUR, Bureau
of European Affairs (later European and Canadian Affairs),
Department of State
- EUR/CE,
Office of Central European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs
(later European and Canadian Affairs), Department of State
- EUR/EE/HU, Desk Officer for Hungary, Office of
Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs (later European
and Canadian Affairs), Department of State
- EUR/EEY,
Office of Eastern European and Yugoslav Affairs, Bureau of European
Affairs (later European and Canadian Affairs), Department of
State
- EUR/NE,
Office of Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs
(later European and Canadian Affairs), Department of State
- EUR/RPE,
Office of OECD, European Community
and Atlantic Political-Economic Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs
(later European and Canadian Affairs), Department of State
- EUR/RPM,
Office of Security and Political Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs
(later European and Canadian Affairs), Department of State
- EUREKA
[project], European Research Coordination
Agency
- Ex,
executive
- EXIM,
Export-Import Bank
-
- F–5, light,
supersonic fighter aircraft
- F–15, USAF
twin-engine, tactical fighter
- F–16, USAF
multirole fighter aircraft
- F–18,
USN/USMC twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft
- F–111, USAF
supersonic, medium range tactical attack aircraft
- FAIM,
Foreign Affairs Information Management system (Department of
State)
- FBI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
-
FC or FCC,
Frank Carlucci
- FCC, Federal
Communications Commission
- FCO, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
- FDN,
Fuerza Democrática Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan
Democratic Force)
- FDR, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; also Frente Democrático
Revolucionario (Revolutionary Democratic Front), El
Salvador
- FEMA,
Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FFPr, Food
for Progress
- FLS, Front
Line States
- FMLN,
(Frente) Farabundo Martí de Liberación
Nacional (Farabundo Marti National Liberation [Front]), El
Salvador
- FMS, foreign
military sales
- FON, freedom
of navigation
- For.,
foreign
- FRELIMO,
Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (Front for
the Liberation of Mozambique)
- FRG, Federal
Republic of Germany
- FSI, Foreign
Service Institute, Department of State
- FSLN,
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional
(Sandinista National Liberation Front), Nicaragua
- FSO, foreign
service officer
- FSP, Food
Stamp Program
- FTA, free
trade agreement; also free trade area
- FY, fiscal
year
- FYDP,
Five-Year Defense Program
- FYI, for your
information
-
- G–7, Group of
7 (Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, United
Kingdom, United States)
- G–10, Group
of 10 (Belgium, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy,
Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States)
- G–77, Group
of 77 (group of developing countries established at the conclusion
of UNCTAD in 1964)
- GAB, general
agreements to borrow (IMF)
- GATT,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GCC, Gulf
Cooperation Council
- GDR, German
Democratic Republic
- Gen.,
general
- GI, general
issue
- GLCM,
Ground-Launched Cruise Missile
- GM, General
Motors
- GN, Global
Negotiations
- GNP, Gross
National Product
- GNZ,
Government of New Zealand
- GOC,
Government of Canada
- GOE,
Government of Egypt
- GOES,
Government of El Salvador
- GOF,
Government of France
- GOP,
Government of Pakistan; also Grand Old Party (Republican
Party)
- GOR,
Government of Romania
- GOY,
Government of Yugoslavia
-
GPS or GS,
George P. Shultz
- GSP,
Generalized System of Preferences (U.S. trade)
-
- H, Bureau of
Congressional Relations (Legislative Affairs), Department of
State
- HFAC, House
Foreign Affairs Committee
- H.J. Res.,
House Joint Resolution
- HLG, high
level group
- H.R., House
Resolution
- HREM,
CSCE Human Rights Experts
Meeting
- HUD,
Department of Housing and Urban Development
-
- IAEA,
International Atomic Energy Agency
- IBRD,
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World
Bank)
- ICA,
International Communication Agency
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- ICDAIT,
International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking
- ICIDI,
Independent Commission on International Development Issues (Brandt
Commission)
- ICJ,
International Court of Justice
- IDA,
International Development Association
- IDCA,
International Development Cooperation Agency
- IDF, Israeli
Defense Force
- IEA,
International Energy Agency
- IFALPA,
International Federation of Airline Pilots Association
- IFC,
International Finance Corporation
- IFI,
international financial institutions
- IG,
interagency group
- IISS,
International Institute for Strategic Studies
- IMET,
International Military Education and Training
- IMF,
International Monetary Fund
- INF,
intermediate range nuclear force(s)
- INR, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- Intel,
intelligence
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- IR, Minnesota
Independent-Republican Party
- IRS, Internal
Revenue Service
- ITT,
International Telephone & Telegraph
-
- JCC, Joint
Commercial Commission
- JCS, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
- JLP, Joint
Logistics Planning
- JMCL, Joint
Military Communications Link
-
JP,
John Poindexter
- JPMG, Joint
Political-Military Group
-
- KAL, Korean
Air Lines
- KGB,
Komitet Gosudarstvennyi Bezopasnosti (Soviet
Committee for State Security)
- KT,
kiloton
-
- L, Legal
Adviser, Department of State
- LAFTA,
Latin American Free Trade Agreement
- Landsat,
land remote sensing satellite system
- LDC, lesser
developed country
- LDP, Liberal
Democratic Party (Japan)
- LDX, long
distance xerography
- LMO,
legislative management officer, Bureau of Congressional Relations
(Legislative Affairs), Department of State
- LOS, Law of
the Sea
- LOU, Limited
Official Use
- LPAR, large
phased-array radar
- LRINF,
Long-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
- LRTNF,
Long-Range Theatre Nuclear Forces
-
LSE,
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
- Lt. Gen.,
Lieutenant General
- LTA,
long-term agreement
-
- M, Under
Secretary of State for Management; million
-
MA,
Michael Armacost
- MAD, mutual
assured destruction or mutually assured destruction
- MAP, military
assistance program
- MBFR, Mutual
and Balanced Force Reductions
- MDB,
Multilateral Development Bank
- ME, Middle
East
- MEDO, Middle
East Defense Organization
- MFA, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs; also Multi Fiber Arrangement
- MFN,
most-favored nation
- MFO,
Multinational Force and Observers/Multilateral Force Observers
(Sinai)
- MiGs,
Mikoyan i Gurevich (Soviet fighter
aircraft)
- Min.,
minister
- MINITEL,
Médium interactif par numérisation d’information
téléphonique (interactive medium by digitalizing telephone
information; French Videotex online service)
- Minute Man
III, intercontinental ballistic missile
- MIRV,
Multiple, Independently-Targeted Re-entry Vehicles
- MIT,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MNF,
multinational force
- MOLINK,
Moscow Link (Moscow-Washington Direct Communication Link or “hot
line”)
- MPLA,
Movimento Popular para a Libertacao de Angola
(People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola)
- MX or M–X,
missile experimental (intercontinental ballistic missile)
-
- NAC, North
Atlantic Council
- NAM,
Non-Aligned Movement
- NASA,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO, North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NBC, National
Broadcasting Company
- NCND,
neither confirm nor deny
- NEA, Bureau
of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/EX,
Office of the Executive Director, Bureau of Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/IAI,
Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/RA,
Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, Department of State
- NED, National
Endowment for Democracy
- NET, National
Educational Television
- NHAO,
Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office
- NICs, newly
industrialized countries
- NNA, neutral
and non-aligned
- NODIS, No
Distribution
- Notal, Not
Received by All Addressees
- NPA, New
People’s Army (Philippines)
- NPG, Nuclear
Planning Group (NATO)
- NPT,
Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NRM, National
Resistance Movement (Mozambique)
- NSC, National
Security Council Staff
- NSDD,
National Security Decision Directive
- NSG, Nuclear
Suppliers’ Group
- NSPG,
National Security Planning Group
- NSSD,
National Security Study Directive
- NST, Nuclear
and Space Arms Talks
- NUF, non-use
of force
- NYU, New York
University
-
- OAS,
Organization of American States
- OASD/PA,
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public
Affairs
- OAU,
Organization of African Unity
- OBE,
overtaken by events
- ODA, official
development assistance
- OECD,
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OECS,
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
- OES, Bureau
of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
Department of State
- OMB, Office
of Management and Budget
- OMG,
operational maneuver group
- ONDCP,
Office of National Drug Control Policy
- OPD, White
House Office of Policy Development
- OPEC,
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- OPIC,
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- OPTAD,
Organization for Pacific Trade and Development
- OSD, Office
of the Secretary of Defense
- OSD/MRA&L, Manpower, Reserve Affairs &
Logistics, Office of the Secretary of Defense
- OSD/PA&E, Program Analysis & Evaluation,
Office of the Secretary of Defense
-
- P, Office of
the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- PA, Bureau of
Public Affairs, Department of State
- PA/HO,
Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of
State
- PA/OAP,
Office of Opinion Analysis and Plans, Bureau of Public Affairs,
Department of State
- PAFTA,
Pacific Free Trade Area
- PAFTAD,
Pacific Trade and Development Conference
- Pan Am, Pan
American Airways
- Para,
paragraph
- PBS, Public
Broadcasting System
- PCC, Pacific
Cooperation Committee
- PDRY,
People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen
- PEEC,
Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference
- PermRep,
U.S. Permanent Representative to the
United Nations
- PFIAB,
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- PIb, Pershing
Ib missile
- PII, Pershing
II missile
- P.L., Public
Law
- P.L.–480,
Public Law 480; Food for Peace
- PLO,
Palestinian Liberation Organization
- PM, Prime
Minister; also Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of
State
- PM/TMP,
Office of Theater Military Policy, Bureau of Politico-Military
Affairs, Department of State
- PNE, peaceful
nuclear explosion
- PNET,
Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty
- Polads,
political advisers
- POW/MIA,
prisoner of war/missing in action
- PR, public
relations
- PRC, People’s
Republic of China
- PRE, Bureau
for Private Enterprise, Agency for International Development
- Pres.,
President
- PRG, Policy
Review Group
-
PW,
Paul Wolfowitz
-
- R,
Republican
- R & D,
research and development
- R. Adm.,
Rear Admiral
- RAND,
U.S. global policy think tank
established in 1948; acronym stands for research and
development
- RC–135,
U.S. reconnaissance aircraft
-
RCM,
Robert C. McFarlane
- RDF, rapid
deployment force
- RENAMO,
Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana (Mozambican National
Resistance)
- Rep.,
representative
- Rept.,
report
- Res.,
resolution
- Ret.,
retired
- RFE/RL,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
-
RHS,
Richard H. Solomon
- RMK, Robert
M. Kimmitt
- ROK, Republic
of Korea
- ROKG,
Republic of Korea Government
- ROTC,
Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Rpt.,
repeat
-
RR,
Ronald Reagan
-
RVA,
Richard V. Allen
-
- S, Office of
the Secretary of State; Senate
- SA–7, surface
to air missile
- S/NP,
Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on
Non-Proliferation Policy and Nuclear Energy Affairs
- S/P, Policy
Planning Staff (Policy Planning Council during the mid-1980s),
Department of State
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- S/S–I,
Information Management Section, Executive Secretariat, Department of
State
- S/S–O, Duty
Officer, Operations Center, Department of State
- SS–4, Soviet
medium-range ballistic missile
- SS–20,
Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile
- S.A., Saudi
Arabia
- SACEUR,
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
- SAG, South
African Government; also Screen Actors Guild
- SALT,
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty or Talks
- SAM,
surface-to-air missiles
- SCG, Special
Consultative Group (NATO)
- S. Con. Res.,
Senate Concurrent Resolution
- SCP, system
concept paper
- SCUD, Soviet
missile
- SDI,
Strategic Defense Initiative
- SDIO,
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
- SEC,
Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sec. or
Secy, Secretary
- SecDef,
Secretary of Defense
- Secto,
series indicator for telegrams sent from the Secretary of
State
- Sen.,
Senator
- SFRC, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
- SHAPE,
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
- SI, Socialist
International
- SIG, senior
interdepartmental group
- Sit.,
situation
- S.J. Res.,
Senate Joint Resolution
- SLBM,
sea-launched ballistic missile; submarine-launched ballistic
missile
- SLCM,
sea-launched cruise missile; submarine-launched cruise
missile
- SNIE,
Special National Intelligence Estimate
- Solidarnosc, National Committee of Solidary
(Polish Solidarity movement)
- SOTU, State
of the Union address
- SPD,
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
(Social Democratic Party of [West] Germany)
- SRINF,
Short-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
- SSBN,
ballistic missile submarine
- SSOD, UN
Special Session on Disarmament
- STABEX,
earnings stabilization fund (as specified by the 1975 Lomé
Convention)
- START,
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
- Stat.,
statute
- SU, Soviet
Union
- SWAPO,
South West Africa People’s Organization
- SYG,
Secretary-General
-
- T, Under
Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and
Technology
- TASS,
Telegraphonye Agentstvo Sovyetskovo Soyuza
(Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union)
- TNF, theater
nuclear forces
- Todep,
series indicator for telegrams sent to the Deputy Secretary of State
while away from Washington
- Topol,
series indicator for telegrams sent to the Under Secretary for
Political Affairs from the Department while the Under Secretary is
away from the Department
- TORs, terms
of reference
- Tosec,
series indicator for telegrams sent to the Secretary of State while
away from Washington
- Triad,
three legs of the U.S. nuclear
deterrent: ICBMs, SLBMs, and long-range strategic
bombers
- Trident,
submarine
- TTBT,
Threshold Test Ban Treaty
- TV,
television
- TWA, Trans
World Airlines
-
- U–2,
U.S. high-altitude reconnaissance
aircraft
- UAW, United
Automobile Workers
- UCLA,
University of California Los Angeles
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNCNRSE,
United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of
Energy
- UNCTAD,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- UNDP, United
Nations Development Programme
- UNESCO,
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization
- UNGA, United
Nations General Assembly
- UNICEF,
United Nations Children’s Fund
- UNIFIL,
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
- UNITA,
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
- UNO,
Unidad Nicaraguense Opositora (Nicaraguan
resistance)
- UNSC, United
Nations Security Council
- UNSYG,
United Nations Secretary-General
- UPI, United
Press International
- URNG,
National Revolutionary Union, Guatemala
- U.S., United
States
- USA, United
States Army
- USAF, United
States Air Force
- U.S.C.,
United States Code
- USCINCCENT, United States Commander in Chief,
Central Command
- USCINCEUR, United States Commander in Chief,
European Command
- USCINCRED, United States Commander in Chief,
Readiness Command
- USCINCSO, United States Commander in Chief,
Southern Command
- USDA, United
States Department of Agriculture
- USDOCOSOUTH, United States Documents Officer,
Allied Forces, Southeastern Europe
- USG, United
States Government
- USIA, United
States Information Agency
- USIA–P/G,
Planning and Guidance Staff, Associate Director for Programs, United
States Information Agency
- USN, United
States Navy
- USNAMRSHAPE, United States National Military
Representative, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
- USOC, United
States Olympic Committee
- USSR, Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics
- UST, United
States Treaty
- USTR, United
States Trade Representative
- USUN, United
States Mission to the United Nations
- UTC, United
Technologies Corporation
-
- V–E, Victory
in Europe Day
- V–J, Victory
in Japan Day
- VCR, video
cassette recorder
- VFW, Veterans
of Foreign Wars
- VOA, Voice of
America
- VP, Vice
President
-
-
WC or WPC,
William P. Clark
- WEU, Western
European Union
- WH, White
House
- WHORM,
White House Office of Records Management
- Wireless File,
daily news service supplied to the field by ICA/USIA
-
WSJ,
Wall Street Journal
-
- Z, Zulu
(Greenwich Mean Time)
- Z States,
Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe