THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 DECEMBER 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 28, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
December 28, 1976
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December 28, 1976
Table of Contents
China: Recent satellite photography shows that the Chinese are
building what appear to be two new ICBM silos in central
China. (Page 1)
Notes: USSR; South Africa; Rhodesia-Mozambique-Tanzania
(Pages 2 and 3)
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Sun-tien
I CSS-3
Tung-tao
CSS-3
Bay of Bengal
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South Chrna
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CHINA: Recent satel-
lite photography shows
that the Chinese are
building what appear
to be two ICBM silos
in central China. The
silos are in an early
stage of construction,
but work is progressing
rapidly.
The Chinese have been developing
two ICBMs--the CSS-3 and CSS-X-4--
for deployment in silos, but we
cannot yet determine which missile
will be placed in the new silos.
The more likely candidate is the
CSS-3, a missile with a range of
3,600 nautical miles that just
became operational within the
past year. China has only two
operational silos for the CSS-3--
one at Sun-tien and the other at
Tung-tao. The Chinese this year
twice successfully test-fired the
missile--the first CSS-3 launches
in nearly five years.
We cannot rule out the longer
range CSS-X-4 as a candidate for
the new silos, but the case for
that missile is weaker. The Chi-
nese have used the CSS-X-4 as a
booster for all six of their space
shots during the past year and a
half, but it has not been success-
fully tested as a ballistic mis-
sile since 1971.
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Soviets/
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Rioting in South Afri-
can black townships
near Cape Town over
the Christmas holiday
weekend followed pat-
terns set in earlier
violent outbreaks.
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Students in two townships, in a
continuing effort to organize a
sustained anti-government campaign,
proposed that the Christmas week-
end be used to mourn those who
had died in earlier riots. When
the students tried to enforce
their call for action, the resis-
tance of some black workers led
to violence. Clashes left some
24 dead and nearly 100 wounded.
The student action in the Cape
Town townships seemed less well
organized than efforts last August
in Soweto to enforce a worker boy-
cott and appears to be subsiding.
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African Republic
Bangui
*Yaounde
Victoria
Brazzaville
bura
undi
Cabinda
Tanzania
bia
(South-Vest Africa)
Walvis Bay
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Botswana
Gaborone
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Atlantic
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500 KILOMETERS
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A raid by Rhodesian se-
curity forces into
Mozambique in mid-Decem-
ber inflicted a dozen
or more casualties on
a Tanzanian army unit,
The South African police intervened
quickly. Earlier government sweeps
through the townships to pick up
student leaders probably also con-
tributed to the students' inabil-
ity to carry through their at-
tempted action.
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This is the first evidence we have
seen of Tanzanian casualties in
the Rhodesian guerrilla war. The
Tanzanians have had a small con-
tingent helping to guard the guer- 25X1
rilla camps in Mozambique and re-
cently increased this force to
perhaps 2,000 men.
The Rhodesian security force may
not have known the Tanzanians
were there, or may not have made
any distinction between Tanzanians
Mozambicans--who also guard the
camps--and guerrillas.
As a result of the Rhodesian raid,
which involved several airplanes
and helicopters, the Tanzanian
troops are asking for air defense
weapons, especially SA-7 surface-
to-air missiles. The authoriza-
tion of the use of such a weapon
by Tanzania would represent a
considerable increase in its in-
volvement in the Rhodesian guer-
rilla effort.
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