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Department Seal FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
1964-1968, Volume XXXIV
Energy, Diplomacy, and Global Issues

Department of State
Washington, DC

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Abbreviations

AEC, Atomic Energy Commission

AID, Agency for International Development

ANC, Air Navigation Commission/Council

APQ, Annual Programmed Quantity

ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State

ARAMCO, Arabian American Oil Company

ASAP, as soon as possible

BAC, British Aerospace Corporation

b/d, barrels per day

BP, British Petroleum

BPD, barrels per day

CAA, Civil Aeronautics Administration

CAB, Civil Aeronautics Board

Cedto, series indicator for telegrams from the Mission to European Regional Organizations in Paris to the Department of State

CETS, European Committee for Telecommunications Satellites

CFP, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles

CNAD, Conference of National Armaments Directors

CNES, French National Space Agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)

CNET, Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications

COB, close of business

COMSAT, Communications Satellite Corporation

cos, companies

COSPAR, Consultative Committee of the International Committee on Space Research

CSC, Communications Satellite Corporation

Deptel, Department of State telegram

DOD, Department of Defense

ECOSOC, Economic, Cultural and Social Committee of the United Nations

ECSC, European Conference on Satellite Communications

EE, Eastern Europe

ELDO, European Launcher Development Organization

ENI, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi

EPSC, Emergency Petroleum Supply Committee

ERAP, Enterprise de Recherches et d'Activites Petrolieres

ESRO, European Space Research Organization

EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State

FAA, Federal Aviation Administration

FAUSST, French-Anglo-U.S. Supersonic Transport Group

FCC, Federal Communications Commission

Fr, France; French

GA, UN General Assembly

GOC, Government of Canada; Government of Cuba

GOI, Government of Iraq; Government of Iran

GOP, Government of Portugal

GOT, Government of Turkey

HEW, Department of Health, Education and Welfare

HMG, Her Majesty's Government

IATA, International Air Transport Association

ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization

ICSC, Interim Communication Satellite Corporation

ICY, International Cooperation Year

INOC, Iraq National Oil Company

INTELSAT, International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium

IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State

IPC, Iraq Petroleum Company

ITU, International Telecommunications Union

KOC, Kuwait Oil Company

LDC, less-developed countries

LE, Egyptian pounds

Leo, Leopoldville

MINECON, Ministry of Economics

MOA, Ministry of Aviation

MOL, Manned Orbiting Laboratory

MWD, Metropolitan Water District

NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASC, National Aeronautics and Space Council

NATUS, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCS, National Communications System

NIOC, National Iranian Oil Company

NOA, new obligational authority

NSF, National Science Foundation

OAPEC, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense

OST, Office of Science and Technology

PAHO, Pan American Health Organization

PM, Prime Minister

POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants

PSAC, President's Scientific Advisory Committee

R&D, research and development

SAG, Saudi Arabian Government

SARG, Syrian Government

SCI, Office of Science and Technology, Department of State

SecGen, Secretary General

Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while away from Washington

SEPR, Societe d'Etude de la Propulsion par Reaction

SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group

Sitrep, situation report

SOCAL, Standard Oil Company of California

SOCONJ, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Esso)

SOCONY, Standard Oil Company of New York (Mobil)

S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State

S/PM, Office of the Special Assistant to Secretary of State Rusk for Population Matters

S/S-O, Secretariat Staff, Operations Center, Department of State

SYG, Secretary-General

Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away from Washington

UGTA, Algerian labor union

UNGA, UN General Assembly

UK, United Kingdom

UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

USG, United States Government

USRO, Mission of the Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations

USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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