FORTHCOMING EVENTS AUGUST 1977 - MARCH 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01194A000100260001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 19, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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August 1977 - March 1978
August 31
September 1
September 2-10
September 9
September 10
September 19-24
September 20 -
December 17
September 21-23
September 26 -
October 3
Late September -
October
October 4 -
December 22
Rhodesia General election in Rhodesia; called by Prime Minister
Ian Smith who dissolved Parliament on 18 July in a
gamble to get a mandate at the polls for an independent
settlement of the Rhodesian problem based on sharing
power with moderate black nationalists.
Cyprus
The United States and Cuba will establish interest
sections in respective countries as a first step toward
restoring diplomatic relations.
The Socialist International will send a mission to
Southern Africa, led by Olaf Palme, will visit Tanzania
Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola.
First anniversary of the death of Mao Tse-tung. The
conclusion of the Eleventh Party Congress could fore-
shadow the Fifth National People's Congress.
Presidential elections will determine interim
successor to Archbishop Makarios. The winner will
serve out Makarios' term, ending February 1978.
Parties have agreed to bury their differences for
the time being and are expected to back unanimously
Acting President Spyros Kyprianou.
World Energy Conference, Tenth. This year's theme
is "Availability and Rational Sources of Energy
Resources."
United Nations UN General Assembly, 32nd Session. Human rights,
New York South Africa, Rhodesia, disarmament, the North-South
dialogue are some of the issues likely to be on the
agenda.
Vienna
US/USSR
Belgrade
Regional Narcotics Conference.
International Atomic Energy Agency, General
Conference, 21st Session.
Second round of bilateral talks on the Indian Ocean.
First round was held in Moscow.
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
will concern itself with a full review of the
accomplishments of the two years since the Helsinki
Declarations. It is generally agreed that the West,
not the Soviets, as had been widely feared, has gained
significant consessions in CSCE.
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October 5-10 Lusaka Organization of African Unity Summit to discuss the
situation in the Western Sahara. The OAU will turn
its attention to the dispute between Algeria and
Morocco and the problems involving the Polisario Front
which is engaging Moroccan and Mauritanian troops.
NOTE: Following the OAU Summit, the OAU Libya-
Chad mediation committee will deliberate on the
dispute. Experts committee of jurists and
cartographers will attempt to verify exact
boundary between Libya and Chad and to determine
the legal status of the 1935 Laval/Mussolini agree-
ment. The disputed. area is the Aouzou Strip.
October Argentina Conference on Drug Abuse. This will be a continent
wide seminar sponsored by the Argentine government
to coordinate efforts to eliminate drug abuse and
related social and economic problems. UNESCO will
sponsor a similar meeting of ten South Asian countries
in November or December.
October USSR The Supreme Soviet will convene to adopt the new
constitution. Confirming a fact of Soviet life, the
new constitution gives much greater emphasis to the role
of the Party and, like the old constitution,
reiterates all the theoretical rights such as freedom
of conscience, freedom of the press, etc. Brezhnev sees
the new constitution undoubtedly as a monument to
himself and a great political event as fitting for
the November celebrations of the 60th anniversary
of the revolution.
October 27-30 Yugoslavia Non-Aligned Broadcasting Conference. This conference
is an outgrowth of the Non-aligned Conference held in
Colombo last year and a corollary to the efforts of the
non-aligned to set up a third world news agency.
According to the Yugoslavs, the discussions will
center on methods of exchange of radio/TV news,
organization of cooperative news exchanges among non-
aligned and financing of such exchanges. The radical
non-aligned see Western news media as monopolistic
and biased and with the help of the Soviets, attempted
last year to get censorship measures passed at a UNESCO
meeting.
November 20 Spain The second anniversary of Franco's death may bear
watching. Although Spain's progress toward a Western-
style democracy continues to be steady,
Franco's memory still stirs violent emotions in both
the extreme right and the extreme left.
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November Rome Human Rights. "Sakharov Committee" hearing to
investigate violations of the Helsinki Accords.
According to Danish press reports the Chairman of
the committee, Ojvind Andersen, announced that
Sakharov has accepted the use of his name for this
new hearing which will concentrate on conditions in
Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the German Democratic
Republic. The hearing will be presided over by a
body of international writers, journalists and
politicians.
March 1978 France French legislative elections. The Socialist and
Communist parties are making their most serious bid
to gain control of the government through their
"common program," a platform the two parties adopted
in 1972, and now the subject of talks to update it
for the 1978 elections. A summit meeting between
Mitterand and Marchais and Left Radical leaders
is planned for September when the trio will try to iron
out their differences on defense policy and national-
ization of industry.
March 1978 Geneva Law of the Sea. The next session of the four-year old
conference will be attended by representatives of some
157 countries.
28 August - Honolulu The World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
2 September will hold its sixth congress in Hawaii. The
subject of Soviet psychiatric abuse of dissidents is
expected to come up. It remains unknown how firmly
members of the WPA will press this issue. At the 1971
conference the Soviet delegation trheatened to stage
a walk-out if this question was raised.
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