THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 JANUARY 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006014995
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 5, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
January 5, 1976
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January 5, 1976
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Angola: Popular Movement forces scored significant
military gains against the National Front over
the weekend. (Page 1)
Thailand: The strike by workers protesting price
increases in rice and sugar has begun to pick
up momentum, but has not become the general
strike predicted by labor leaders. (Page 2)
Note: USSR (Page 3)
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ANGOLA
LUAND
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Benguel
SOU -WEST AFRICA
(Intern onal Territory)
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STATUTE MILES
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ANGOLA
Popular Movement forces scored signif-
icant military gains against the National
Front over the weekend.
Carmona, the National Front's second largest
operational base in northern Angola, reportedly was
captured on Saturday by the Popular Movement. Ear-
lier in the day, Movement troops backed by T-34
tanks and multiple rocket launchers had captured
Negage, the key outpost in Carmona's southern de-
fense perimeter.
Popular Movement forces also are making steady
progress toward Ambriz. During the weekend they
pushed National Front forces from two outer defense
positions at Onzo and Tabi.
No new developments have been reported from
the eastern front, where heavy fighting between the
Popular Movement and the National Union was taking
place late last week near Teixeira de Sousa.
The Front has suffered a serious military and
psychological blow from the fall of Carmona. The
Front now can be expected to try to recapture the
base before the beginning of the Organization of
African Unity's emergency summit on Thursday. Any
further erosion of the Front's military position
will strengthen the Popular Movement's claim that
the Front cannot exercise effective military and
political control in its own tribal region, and
therefore is not entitled to be recognized by the
OAU or any of its members as a legitimate nation-
alist organization.
The Soviet Kotlin-class destroyer that arrived
in Conakry, Guinea, on December 29 left there on
Friday and is moving south. The ship presumably
is heading toward the vicinity of Angola and could
arrive before mid-week. Meanwhile, the last of
the Soviet heavy transports that flew to West Africa
in the past ten days has returned to the USSR.
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THAILAND
A strike by workers protesting price
increases in rice and sugar has begun to
pick up momentum, but has not become the
general strike predicted by labor leaders.
Its success may be determined today, the
first full working day since the New Year
holidays.
Labor leaders are demanding that the government
freeze prices at current levels. The government's
agreement to postpone the price increases until Jan-
uary 15 will likely harden the resolve of labor
leaders to continue the work stoppage. They already
have threatened unspecified "stronger" action if the
government declares a state of emergency or dismisses
the workers.
We have some evidence that Prime Minister Khu-
krit's political opponents have seized upon the
price issue to undermine his government. They claim
they have enough votes to bring down the government
when the National Assembly convenes in special
session sometime this week.
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NOTE
The USSR, in an apparent effort to show com-
pliance with the provisions of the European security
conference accord, yesterday announced plans to hold
a military exercise near the Turkish border from
January 25 to February 6.
This is the first Soviet notification of an
exercise under the terms of the "confidence-build-
ing measures" called for in the CSCE document and
carefully follows the conference guidelines on the
subject. Still apparently undecided in Moscow,
however, is whether to invite observers from the
CSCE signatory states.
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