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APPENDIX A

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AA Antiaircraft
A.D. Anno Domini
AMAL Lebanese Resistance Detachments
ASRY Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yards'
ASW Antisubmarine warfare
   
BC before Christ
BD Bahraini dinar
   
CAL Cargo AirLine
C centigrade
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
cm centimeters
COIN Computer Operated Instrument
   
DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
DLF Dhofar Liberation Front
   
E degrees
EW Electronic Warfare
   
FAC[M] fast-attack aircraft
FAE Federation of Arab Emirates
FGA fighter ground attack
FRC Fatah Revolutionary Council
   
GNP gross national product
   
HQ Headquarters
   
IPC International crude oil pipeline
IDF Israel Defense Force
IISS International Institute for Strategic Studies
IPC Iraq Petroleum Company
   
JD Jordanian dinar
   
km2 square kilometers
   
LOCs lines of communications
LP Lebanese pound
   
max maximum
m meters
min minimum
   
nm nautical mile
   
OAPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OR Omani rial
   
PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
PFLP(GC) Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (General Command)
PLA Palestine Liberation Army
PLF Palestine Liberation Front
PLFO Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
PLO Palestinian Liberation Organization
PSF Popular Struggle Front
PSP Progressive Socialist Party
   
QR Qatar rial
   
RAF Royal Air Force
   
SAF Sultan's Armed Forces
SAM Surface-to-air missile
SF Special Forces
SLA South Lebanese Army
SSM Surface-to-surface missile
   
TAPline Trans-Arabian Pipeline
TMA Trans-Mediterranean Airway
   
UAE United Arab Emirates
UAR United Arab Republic
UN United Nations
UNDOF United Nations Disengagement Observation Forces
UNEF United Nations Emergency Force
UNIFIL United Nation Interim Force in Lebanon
   
YR Yemini rial
YAR Yemen Arab Republic

 


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