Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980 Volume
XXIV, South America; Latin America Region
Abbreviations and Terms
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- AAA,
Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance
- ABA, American
Bar Association
- ACDA, Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency
- ACDA/WEC/ATE, Arms Transfer and Economics
Division, Weapons Evaluation and Control Bureau, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
- AD,
Accion Democratica (Democratic Action),
Venezuelan political party
- ADB, Asian
Development Bank
- Adeco, a
member of Venezuela’s AD party
- ADN,
Accion Democratica Nacionalista (Nationalist
Democratic Action), Bolivian political party
- AFP,
Agence France Presse
- AID, U.S.
Agency for International Development
- AID/LA,
LAC, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean,
U.S. AID
- AID/RDP,
Regional Development Program, U.S. AID
- AID/LAC/SA, Office of South American Affairs,
Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. AID
- AIFLD,
American Institute for Free Labor Development
- AP, Andean
Pact; Associated Press
- APRA,
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
(Popular Revolutionary American Alliance), Peruvian political
party
- ARA, Bureau
of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
- ARA/AND,
Office of Andean Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs,
Department of State
- ARA/AND/CH, Chile Desk, Office of Andean Affairs,
Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
- ARA/BR,
Office of Brazilian Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs,
Department of State
- ARA/ECA,
Office of East Coast Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs,
Department of State
- ARA/ECP,
Office of Regional Economic Policy, Bureau of Inter-American
Affairs, Department of State
- ARA/PPC,
Office of Policy Planning Coordination, Bureau of Inter-American
Affairs, Department of State
- ARA/RPP,
Office of Political Programs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs,
Department of State
- ARA/RPP/PM, Regional Political Program, Bureau of
Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
- ARA/SC,
Office of Southern Cone Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs,
Department of State
- ARENA,
Aliance Removadora Nacional (National Renewal
Alliance), Brazilian political party
- ARMA, U.S.
Army Attaché
- AS, Assistant
Secretary
- ASEAN,
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
-
- BA, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
- b/d, barrels
per day (of oil)
- BHN, basic
human need (a category of loans in the IFIs)
- BOP, balance
of payments
- B/P, balance
of payments
- BPD, barrels
per day (of oil)
-
- CAP, Carlos
Andres Perez
- CARICOM,
Caribbean Community
- CASP,
Country Analysis and Strategy Paper
- CBF,
Corporación Boliviana de Fomento (Bolivian
Development Corporation)
- CCC,
Commodity Credit Corporation
- CDU,
Christian Democratic Union, West German political party
- CENTO,
Central Treaty Organization
- CEOSL,
La Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones
Sindicales Libres (Ecuadorian Confederation of Free Trade
Union Organizations)
- CERP 0001,
Comprehensive Economic Reporting program; annual policy assessment
mandated by the Foreign Affairs Manual
- CHMN,
Chairman
- Christopher
Group, The Inter-Agency Group on Human Rights and
Foreign Assistance, chaired by Deputy Secretary of State
Christopher
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CIEC,
Conference on International Economic Cooperation
- CINC,
Commander in Chief
- CIPEC,
Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries
- CNI,
Central Nacional de Informaciones (National
Information Center), Chilean intelligence service, successor to
DINA
- CNO, Chief of
Naval Operations
- COB, Bolivian
Workers’ Central Confederation
- COCOM,
Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
- COMASPO,
Uruguayan Armed Forces Political Commission
- COMIBOL,
Corporación Minera de Bolivia (Mining
Corporation of Bolivia)
- COPPAL,
Conference of Latin American Political Parties
- COPEI,
Venezuelan Christian Democratic Party
- Copeyano, a member of Venezuela’s COPEI
party
- COSENA,
Uruguayan National Security Council
- COSEP,
Superior Council for Private Enterprise (Nicaragua)
- CPF,
Concentración de Fuerzas Populares
(Concentration of Popular Forces), Ecuadoran political party
- CSA, Chief of
Staff of the Army
- CSAF, Chief
of Staff of the Air Force
- CTV,
Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela
(Venezuelan Workers Confederation); Venezuelan labor union linked
with AD political party
- CUS,
Nicaraguan Labor Organization
- CVDS,
countervailing duties
- CY, calendar
year
-
- D, Office of
the Deputy Secretary of State
- D/HA,
Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Office of the
Deputy Secretary of State
- DA, David
Aaron
- DA, Defense
Attaché
- DAM,
disposicion autoridad milita (disposition of
military authority), prisoners held under military authority in
Argentina
- DAO, Defense
Attaché Office
- DAS, Deputy
Assistant Secretary
- DATT,
Defense Attaché
- DC, Developed
Country
- DCI, Director
of Central Intelligence
- DCM, Deputy
Chief of Mission
- DDCI, Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence
- DDO, Deputy
Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
- DEA, Drug
Enforcement Administration
- DGI, Cuban
General Directorate of Intelligence
- DI,
Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
- DIA, Defense
Intelligence Agency
- DINA,
Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia
(Directorate of National Intelligence), Chilean secret police and
intelligence service, abolished and replaced by CNI in late
1977
- DINE,
Chilean Army Intelligence Directorate
- DISIP,
Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y
Prevención (Directorate of Intelligence and Preventive
Services), Venezuelan intelligence agency
- DMA, Defense
Mapping Agency
- DNCSP,
Dirección Nacional para el Control de Substancias
Peligrosas (National Directorate for the Control of
Dangerous Substances), Bolivian anti-narcotics agency
- DOD,
Department of Defense
- DOD/ISA,
Bureau of International Security Affairs, Department of
Defense
- DOE,
Department of Energy
- DOS,
Department of State
- DR, Daily
Reading (President Carter’s early morning reading)
-
- E, Bureau of
Economic Affairs, Department of State
- EB, Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
- EB/ITA/EWT, Office of East-West Trade, Office of
International Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs,
Department of State
- EB/IFD/ODF, Office of Development Finance,
International Finance and Development, Bureau of Economic and
Business Affairs, Department of State
- EB/IFD/OMA, Office of Monetary Affairs,
International Finance and Development, Bureau of Economic and
Business Affairs, Department of State
- EC, European
Community
- ECLA, United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
- ECOSOC,
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
- ERP, People’s
Revolutionary Army (Argentina)
- EUR, Bureau
of European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/SOV,
Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs,
Department of State
- EUR/RPM,
Office of Security and Political Affairs, Bureau of European
Affairs, Department of State
- Exdis,
Exclusive distribution
- EXIM,
Export-Import Bank
-
- FA,
Frente Amplio (Broad Front), Uruguayan
political party/coalition
- FAE,
Ecuadoran Air Force
- FAO,
Frente Amplio de Oposicion (Broad Front in
Opposition), Nicaraguan anti-Somoza group
- FARC,
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Colombian leftist guerrilla
group
- FBI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- FDI, foreign
direct investment
- FDR, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
- FFB, Federal
Financing Bank
- FMS, Foreign
Military Sales
- FRG, Federal
Republic of Germany; West Germany
- FSB,
Falange Socialista Boliviana (Bolivian
Socialist Falange); Bolivian right-wing political party
- FSLN,
Sandinista National Liberation Front (Nicaragua)
- FSO,
Inter-American Development Bank Funds for Special Operations
- FY, fiscal
year
-
- G–77, Group
of 77
- GATT,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GN, Guardia
Nacional (National Guard), Nicaragua
- GNR,
Government of National Reconciliation (Nicaragua)
- GOA,
Government of Argentina
- GOB,
Government of Bolivia; Government of Brazil
- GOC,
Government of Chile; Government of Colombia
- GOE,
Government of Ecuador
- GOES,
Government of El Salvador
- GON,
Government of Nicaragua (Somoza)
- GOP,
Government of Paraguay; Government of Peru
- GORM, Goals,
Objectives, and Resource Management
- GOU,
Government of Uruguay
- GOV,
Government of Venezuela
- GSP,
Generalized System of Preferences
-
- H, Bureau of
Congressional Relations, Department of State
- HA, Bureau of
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State
- HA/HR,
Office of Human Rights, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian
Affairs, Department of State
- HEW,
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- HR, Human
Rights
- HRH, see
HA
-
- IADB,
Inter-American Defense Board; for Inter-American Development Bank,
see IDB
- IAHRC,
Inter-American Human Rights Commission (OAS)
- IAJC,
Inter-American Juridical Committee (OAS)
- IBRD,
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- ICA,
International Communication Agency
- ICJ,
International Court of Justice (UN)
- ICRC,
International Committee of the Red Cross
- IDB,
Inter-American Development Bank
- IDCA,
International Development Cooperation Agency
- IFC,
International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank
- IFI,
International Financial Institutions (World Bank, IMF, etc.)
- IG,
Interagency Group; Interdepartmental Group; Inspector General
- ILHR,
International League for Human Rights
- ILO,
International Labor Organization
- IMET,
International Military Education and Training
- IMF,
International Monetary Fund
- INM, Bureau
for International Narcotics Matters
- INR, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/DDC,
Office of the Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State
- INR/DDR,
Office of the Director for Research, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State
- INR/IAA,
Office of Analysis for Inter-American Republics, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/RAR,
Office of Research and Analysis for American Republics, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/RSE,
Office of Research and Analysis for the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- IO/UNP,
Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs, Department of State
- ISA,
Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Department
of Defense
- Itamaraty, Brazilian Foreign Ministry (refers to
the Itamaraty Palace, in which the ministry is housed)
- ITT,
International Telephone and Telegraph
-
- JBUSMC,
Joint Brazil-United States Military Commission
- JCR,
Revolutionary Coordinating Junta
- JCS, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
- JRG,
Junta Revolucionario de Govierno
(Revolutionary Governing Junta), ruling junta in El Salvador)
-
- Kennedy-Humphrey
Amendment (P.L. 95–92, sec. 11), signed into law August 4,
1977, prohibited all U.S. military aid, training, and weapons sales
to Argentina after September 30, 1978
-
- L, Legal
Advisor, Department of State
- L/ARA,
Office of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Inter-American Affairs,
Department of State
- L/PM, Office
of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Politico-Military Affairs,
Department of State
- LA, Latin
America; Latin American
- LAC, Bureau
for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. AID
- LAFTA,
Latin American Free Trade Association
- LAWS, light
anti-tank weapons
- LDC, Lesser
Developed Country
- LDCs, Lesser
Developed Countries
- LIMDIS,
Limited Distribution
- LOA, Letter
of Agreement
- LOS, Law of
the Sea
- LST, Landing
Ship Tank
-
- M,
Undersecretary for Management, Department of State
- M/CT, Office
for Combating Terrorism, Under Secretary for Management, Department
of State
- M–19, April
19th Movement, Colombian leftist guerrilla group
- MASM,
Military Assistance and Sales Manual
- M–B–B,
Muskie-Brown-Brzezinski lunch
- MDB,
Movimento Democratico Brasileiro (Brazilian
Democratic Movement), Brazilian political party.
- MFM, Meeting
of Foreign Ministers of the OAS
- Milgroup, military group
- MIR,
Movimiento Izquierdista Revolucionario
(Revolutionary Leftist Movement), Bolivian political party
- MNC,
multinational corporation
- MNR,
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario
(Nationalist Revolutionary Movement), Bolivian political
party
- MNR–A, see
MNR–H
- MNR/Alianza,
see MNR–H
- MNR-H,
“Historical” wing of the Bolivian MNR party
- MNR-I,
“Institutionalist” wing of the Bolivian MNR party
- Montonero, left-wing guerrilla organization based
in Uruguay and Argentina
- MOU,
Memorandum of Understanding
- MPLA,
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
- MTN,
Multilateral Trade Negotiations
- MTT, Military
Training Team
- MVD,
Montevideo, Uruguay
-
- NAM,
Non-Aligned Movement
- NCU,
Narcotics Unit
- NF, see
Noforn
- NFAC,
National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence
Agency
- NFZ, Nuclear
Free Zone
- NG, National
Guard
- Niact,
Night Action
- NIEO, New
International Economic Order
- NIO, National
Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
- Nocontract, Not releasable to contractors
- Nodis, No
distribution
- Noforn,
Not releasable to foreign nationals
- Notal,
Cable not received by all addressees
- NPT,
Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NSC, National
Security Council
- NWFZ,
Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
-
- OAS,
Organization of American States
- OASGA,
Organization of American States General Assembly meeting
- OAU,
Organization of African Unity
- OC, See
Orcon.
- OECD,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OES, Bureau
of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
Department of State
- OMB, Office
of Management and Budget
- OPEC,
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- OPI, Office
of Primary Interest, Central Intelligence Agency
- OPIC,
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Orcon,
originator-controlled
- ORPA, Office
of Regional and Political Analysis, Directorate of Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency
- OSCE,
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- OSD, Office
of the Secretary of Defense
-
- P, Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- PAF, Peruvian
Air Force
- PARM, Policy
and Resources Management, annual policy review
- PCB, Partido
Comunista de Bolivia (Communist Party of Bolivia)
- PCT,
percent
- PD,
Presidential Directive
- PDC,
Christian Democratic Party
- Pro-Ag,
Project Agreement
- Pro/Ag, see
Pro-Ag
- PEN, National
Executive Power, which allowed the Argentine government to hold
prisoners indefinitely under state-of-siege provisions of the
constitution
- Petrocan, Canadian state-owned oil company
- PLN,
Partido Liberal Nacionalista (Nationalist
Liberal Party), Nicaraguan political party
- PM, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
- PM/ISO,
Office of International Security Operations, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
- PM/ISP,
Office of International Security Policy, Bureau of Politico-Military
Affairs, Department of State
- PM/MC,
Office of Munitions Control, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs,
Department of State
- PM/SAS,
Office of Security Assistance and Sales, Bureau of Politico-Military
Affairs, Department of State
- PNG, Persona
non grata
- POL,
Petroleum, oils and lubricants
- PPC,
Partido Popular Cristiano (Christian People’s
Party), Peruvian political party
- PRA,
Partido Revolucionario Auténtico (Authentic
Revolutionary Party), Bolivian political party
- PRC, People’s
Republic of China; Policy Review Committee
- PRD,
Dominican Revolutionary Party
- PRM, Policy
Review Memorandum
- PRIN,
Revolutionary Party of the National Left, Bolivian political
party
-
- RA, Regional
Affairs
- Reftel,
Referenced telegram
- retorno
(return), the process of returning to
civilian government in Ecuador after the period of military
rule
- RI, Rick
Inderfurth
- Rio
Protocol, January 1942 peace agreement between
Ecuador and Peru in boundary dispute
- Rio Pact,
1947 treaty providing for mutual defense in the Western Hemisphere,
signed by the United States and 20 other countries
- Rio
Treaty, see Rio Pact
- RP,
Report
-
- S, Office of
the Secretary of State
- S/AS,
Ambassador at Large and Special Representative of the President for
Nonproliferation Matters
- SALT,
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- SCC, Special
Coordinating Committee
- SDR, Special
Drawing Rights.
- SELA,
Sistema Economico Latinoamericano y del
Caribe (Latin American and Caribbean Economic
System)
- Septel,
Separate telegram
- SET, Supreme
Electoral Tribunal (Ecuador)
- SFRC, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
- SI, Socialist
International
- SIDE,
Argentine State Secretariat for Intelligence
- S/P, Policy
Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary of State
- SPD, Social
Democratic Party, West German political party
- S/S, Executive
Secretary, Office of the Secretary of State
- S/S-O,
Operations Center, Executive Secretary, Office of the Secretary of
State
- S/S-S,
Secretariat Staff, Executive Secretary, Office of the Secretary of
State
- SSOD,
Special Session on Disarmament
- STADIS,
State Distribution, distribution within Department of State
only
- STR, Office
of the Special Trade Representative
- SWAPO,
South West Africa People’s Organization
-
- T, Bureau of
Arms Control and International Security Affairs
- TNC,
Transnational Corporations
-
- UDEL,
Nicaraguan Union of Democratic Liberation
- UDP,
Unidad Democratica y Popular (Democratic and
Popular Union), Bolivian political coalition
- UGA,
University of Georgia
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNCHR,
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- UNCTAD,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- UNEF, United
Nations Emergency Force in the Sinai
- UNESCO,
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
- UNGA, United
Nations General Assembly
- UNHRC, see
UNCHR
- UNITAS, an
annual exercise jointly undertaken by United States and South
American navies
- UNP,
Unión Nacionalista del Pueblo (Nationalist
Union of the People), Bolivian political coalition
- UNSC, United
Nations Security Council
- UP,
Union Patriotica; Allende’s political
coalition in Chile to 1973
- USCINCLANT, U.S. Commander in Chief, Atlantic
Command, Norfolk, Virginia
- USCINCSO, U.S. Commander in Chief, Southern
Command, Canal Zone
- USCINCSOUTH, U.S. Commander in Chief, Southern
Command, Canal Zone
- USA, U.S.
Army
- USAF, U.S.
Air Force
- USDA, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
- USDEL, U.S.
Delegation
- USG, U.S.
Government
- USIA, U.S.
Information Agency
- USICA, U.S.
International Communication Agency
- USN, U.S.
Navy
- USOAS, U.S.
Mission to the OAS
- USSR, Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics
- USUN NY,
U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York
-
- V–B–B,
Vance-Brown-Brzezinski meeting
- VIP, Very
Important Person
-
- WB, World
Bank
- WOLA,
Washington Office on Latin America (non-governmental
organization)
- WR, Weekly
Reading
-
- X–M,
Export-Import Bank
- XMT,
Exempt
-
- Z, Zulu
(Greenwich Mean Time)
- ZB, Zbigniew
Brzezinski