500 Index Turkmenistan, 1, 81, 85–87, 398 Turner Joy, USS, 451 Tutsis, 291, 379 26th July Movement, 80, 111, 153, 183, 293, 383, 414 Tydings-McDuffie Act, 196 Tyranowski, Jan, 229 Tzeltal Revolt, 473 U ‘Ubaydallah of Nehri, Sheikh, 253 Ubico, Jorge, 20 Uganda, 291, 379, 433–435 Ukraine, 122, 370, 398, 435–437 Ulbricht, Walter, 166 Ulema, Nahdatul, 206 Umar, Mullah Muhammad, 412 Umkonto we Sizwe (MK), 4, 291 Understanding on Emergency Action (Safeguards), 320 UNESCO, 37, 311 Union Carbide, xxxiv, 136 Union Federation of Bolivian Tin Workers (FSTMB), 67 Union Nationale des Forces Populaire (UNFP), 294 Union of Palestinian Students, 29 Union of Popular Forces, 84 Union of Right-Wing Forces, 33 Union Treaty, 394 United Arab Emirates (UAE), 40, 437 United Arab Republic (UAR), 41, 47, 134, 219, 279, 305, 437–438 United Automobile Workers (UAW), 15, 16 United Democratic Front (UDF), United Farmworkers of America (UFW), 70 United Fruit Company, 20 United Indochinese Front, 205 United Kingdom, 104 United Malays National Organization (UNMO), 277 United Mine Workers (UMW), 15 United National Independence Party (UNIP), 237 United Nations and the World, The, M176–177 United Nations (UN), xxxvii, xli, 5, 18, 20, 21, 29, 31, 37, 52, 61, 63, 65, 74, 92, 100, 101, 106, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 130, 141, 142, 151, 165, 179, 182, 183, 184, 185, 190, 193, 201, 207, 211, 213, 214, 218, 221, 231, 247, 264, 266, 267, 273, 279, 291, 303, 307, 309, 343, 359, 362, 370, 379, 380, 385, 393, 403, 407, 408, 413, 425, 429, 438–440, 443, 460, 462, 466, 470 UN Atomic Energy Commission, 99, 120 UN Charter, 439, 440 UN Climate Change Conference, 99 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 123 UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), 381 UN Economic and Social Council Resolution 104, 131 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO), xxxix UN General Assembly, 182, 267, 439, 440 UN Human Rights Commission, 30 UN India-Pakistan Observation Mission (UNIPOM), 414 UN Interim Force in Lebanon, 264 UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), 414 UN Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), 130 UN National Conference on the Human Environment, 136 UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR), 470 UN Resolution 242, 17, 22 UN Sahelian Office (UNSO), 381 UN Security Council, xl, 27, 35, 48, 100, 182, 185, 203, 251, 387, 439, 440 UN Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA), 124 UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), 130 United People’s Front (UPF), 308 United Progressive Grand Alliance, 313 United States, xxxiii, xxxix, 18–19, 43, 58–60, 242, 248, 249, 255, 284–285, 320–321, 380–381, 404, 446, 450–452 Agency for International Development, 180 Army Caribbean School, 384 Army School of the Americas (SOA), 385 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 16 Coast Guard, 123 Constitution and Amendments, 73, 139, 151 Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), 123 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 246, 287, 357 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 76 National Security Agency, 76 National Security Council (NSC), 214 President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), relations with China, 442–443 Supreme Court decisions, 73, 139, 151, 178, 245, 285, 287, 292, 366–367 United States–Japan Security Treaty, 382 United States–ROC Mutual Defense Treaty, 118 United States v Nixon, 458 U.S.-and Latin America, The, 1954– 2000, M167 USA PATRIOT Act, 76, 463 U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty, 441–442 U.S.-Republic of Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, 118, 443–444 U.S.-ROC Mutual Defense Treaty, 118, 444 U.S.-Taiwan Mutual Defense Treaty, 444 United Tajik Opposition (UTO), 84, 85 Universal Colored People’s Association, 66 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 5, 440 U Nu, 441 Upward Bound, 178 uranium “gun-type” bomb, 33 urbanization, xxxv, 263 Urriolagoitia, Mamerto, 335 Uruguay, 164, 257 U.S and Latin America, The, 1954–2000, M167 Ute peoples, 16 U Thant, 24 Utzon, Jørn, 40 Uzbekistan, 1, 81, 87–88, 173 V Vajpayee, Atal Bihari, 207–208, 227, 445–446 Vajrayana, 115 Valdés, Miguel Alemán, 208, 209 Valentino, Rudolph, 257 Valle, Juan José, 293 Vanara Sena, 158 Vance, Cyrus, 216 van den Bergh, H J., 454 Vargas, Getúlio, 252 Vatican II Council, 132, 229, 230, 231, 446 Velasco Ibarra, José, 447 Velásquez, Fidel, 209 Velvet Revolution, 129, 190 Venecia, Jose De, 276 Venezuela, 60–61, 88–89, 262, 263 “Venona Cables,” 364–365 Verdun, Battle of, 163 Versailles Treaty, 382 Verwoerd, Henrik Frensch, 453 Victoria of Hesse, 295 Vides Casanova, Carlos Eugenio, 385 Vientiane Action Program, 45 Vietcong, xli, 278 Vietminh, 191, 447, 448, 450 Vietnam, xl, xli, 8, 40, 43, 44, 72, 92–93, 97, 111, 157, 164, 191–192, 204–205, 232, 238, 317, 341, 395, 452–453 Democratic Republic of, 447–449 Republic of, 166, 449–450