THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 JANUARY 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006015002
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• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 13, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
January 13, 1976
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January 13, 1976
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Angola: Popular Movement troops are continuing to
push northward into the National Front's
tribal area and are encountering little re-
sistance. (Page 1)
USSR: Soviet naval activity associated with An-
golan developments continues. (Page 3)
USSR:
Lebanon: Christian forces yesterday blockaded a
third Palestinian refugee camp
(Page 7)
Thailand: King Phumiphon signed a royal decree
yesterday dissolving the National Assembly.
(Page 8)
Notes: OAU-Angola; Iceland-NATO-UK; Indonesia-
UN-Timor; Argentina (Pages 9 and 10)
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Current Military Activity
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ANGOLA
Popular Movement forces, heavily
backed by Cuban troops, are continuing
to push northward into the National
Front's tribal area and are encounter-
ing little resistance from the Front's
demoralized troops.
The Front's defenses in northern Angola have
collapsed and it is highly unlikely it will be able
to resist further advances by the Popular Movement.
Popular Movement forces on Sunday captured Toto
and Bessa Monteiro, both key points on the Front's
eastern flank from Ambrizete; Front forces are now
evacuating Ambrizete.
The Front had withdrawn from its headquarters
in Ambriz last week, and its forces were forced to
withdraw from its last major base in the central
part of northern Angola. The Front's only major
fall-back position in the north is Santo Antonio
do Zaire.
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Havana's Cubana Airlines has made
two more flights to Africa via the Azores,
presumably transporting Cuban troops to
Angola.
The flights occurred over the weekend and car-
ried an estimated 180 passengers. Our consul in
the Azores reported that the aircraft were en route
to Guinea-Bissau, the usual refueling point for
Cuban flights to and from Brazzaville, Congo, and
Luanda, Angola. The Cubana Airlines flights are in
addition to those being made by Soviet Aeroflot
IL-62s. Aeroflot has made daily Havana-Conakry-
Luanda flights since January 7; the flights so far
have taken an estimated 1,200 Cuban troops to An-
gola.
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USSR
Soviet naval activity associated
with Angolan developments continues.
There are no indications as yet, however,
that the three warships near the Strait
of Gibraltar will move to West African
waters.
A Sverdlov class cruiser has completed its
transit of the Mediterranean and currently is in
the Alboran Basin just inside the Strait of Gibral-
tar. It was joined yesterday by the Kresta-I class
cruiser that left Northern Fleet waters on January
2. The Kashin class destroyer that accompanied the
Kresta-I did not enter the Mediterranean, but is
lingering in the approaches to the Strait.
Three other Soviet ships--a Kotlin class de-
stroyer, a landing ship, and a tanker--are in the
Gulf of Guinea and are operating in an area some
350 to 500 miles south of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
The destroyer is scheduled to make a port call at
Pointe Noire, Congo, early next week. The Soviet
Kresta-II class cruiser that arrived at Conakry,
Guinea, over the weekend apparently is still there.
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Palestinian Refugee Camps
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LEBANON
Christian forces yesterday block-
aded a third Palestinian refugee camp,
this one at Dibayah north of Beirut, and
tightened their encirclement of two
camps in the eastern suburbs, Tan Zatar
and Jisar al-Basha.
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THAILAND
King Phumiphon signed a royal de-
cree yesterday dissolving the National
Assembly. Prime Minister Khukrit will
remain head of a caretaker administra-
tion until a general election is held
on April 4.
Khukrit opted for a new election when he con-
cluded that his effort to maintain his coalition
by enlarging the cabinet was failing. Thailand
will now be faced with at least three more months
of weak and indecisive government. Khukrit prob-
ably will exploit his control over the government's
election machinery to strengthen his own Social
Action Party, but his resumption of the prime min-
istership following a new election is not a fore-
gone conclusion.
Retired army commander Krit Siwara, who was
instrumental in bringing down the coalition, is
likely to run for a seat in the assembly in order
to become eligible for a cabinet position or the
prime ministership. If Krit does throw his hat
in the ring, the military presumably will be con-
tent to remain in the background in the belief
that Krit would protect their interests.
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NOTES
The emergency session of the Organization of
African Unity adjourned early this morning without
reaching any new decisions on Angola.
An official OAU spokesman announced only that
the summit had requested the interim standing com-
mittee of OAU heads of state to "continue to follow
the Angolan problem closely." The outcome is some-
thing of a victory for the National Front and the
National Union in that it denies OAU recognition to
the Popular Movement. At the same time, it prob-
ably precludes any OAU effort to promote a coali-
tion government in Angola. In effect, each OAU
member now has a free hand on the recognition is-
sue. So far, 21 African states have recognized
the Movement's government; none has recognized the
Front-Union coalition.
Iceland's disappointment with the results of
yesterday's meeting of NATO ambassadors could lead
Reykjavik to break relations with the UK and to
withdraw from active participation in NATO.
The assembled NATO ambassadors merely urged
Britain and Iceland to exercise restraint in the
dispute and agreed to send Secretary General Luns,
who helped mediate a settlement of the last cod war
in 1973, to Reykjavik for talks with government
leaders.
Despite this development and Prime Minister
Hallgrimsson's efforts to avoid a break in relations
with London, the Icelandic cabinet, which is await-
ing the decision of a special maritime court on the
ramming incident, appears ready to act. Reykjavik,
in fact, has already requested Norway to monitor
its interests in Britain when the break occurs.
Meanwhile, Icelandic fishermen have abandoned their
blockade of a NATO communications facility at
Grindavik, but have threatened to return if their
demands for US help against British "violence" are
not met.
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