World News Tonight (ABC) - 1982-08-13

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[0:08] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:11] with Max Robinson [music] in Indiana

[0:13] with a special report on the economy.

[0:15] >> Wholesale prices up and in this

[0:17] continuing recession, the tale of two

[0:19] cities forced [music] to fight each

[0:20] other to stave off depression level

[0:22] unemployment.

[0:23] >> Peter Jennings reporting [music] from

[0:25] Jerusalem. A quiet day in West Beirut.

[0:28] Negotiations for the PLO to leave

[0:30] somewhat back on track.

[0:31] >> And for the vacationing [music] Frank

[0:33] Reynolds from our desk in Washington,

[0:35] Ted Cppel.

[0:37] >> Good evening. It was the sort of good

[0:38] economic news that generates more of the

[0:40] same. The price of money came down on

[0:43] two fronts. First, the Federal Reserve

[0:44] Board lowered the discount rate from 11%

[0:47] to 10 1/2. And since that's where the

[0:49] major banks borrow much of their money,

[0:51] they in turn immediately dropped the

[0:53] prime lending rate from 15 to 14 1.5%.

[0:56] Even before that news broke, the Dow

[0:58] Jones Industrials closed up a healthy 11

[1:01] points plus. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill,

[1:03] Congress struggled with a $100 billion

[1:06] tax bill, which President Reagan says is

[1:08] necessary to really get the economy

[1:10] moving. We begin our report with Capitol

[1:12] Hill correspondent Charles Gibson.

[1:15] >> It looked like a line outside a movie

[1:17] theater showing ET, but in this case, ET

[1:20] stands for extra taxes. The lobbyist

[1:23] started lining up at 10:00 this morning

[1:24] for a session of the House Senate tax

[1:26] conferees that didn't begin until more

[1:28] than 5 hours later.

[1:29] >> Now we on insurance now.

[1:31] >> I think uh pensions uh Mr. Chairman, it

[1:35] is tedious stuff. There are more than a

[1:37] hundred tax provisions still to be

[1:38] worked out. It should take all night

[1:40] tonight with the end result expected to

[1:42] raise just about the $100 billion in new

[1:44] revenues over three years that was

[1:46] passed by the Senate. But who will pay

[1:49] it? There will be virtually no change in

[1:51] personal income taxes, but smaller

[1:53] deductions for medical expenses can be

[1:55] expected. Higher cigarette taxes are

[1:57] anticipated. A slight raise of the

[1:59] telephone tax is likely, and

[2:01] stockholders would notice some money

[2:02] withheld from their dividend checks. The

[2:04] vast majority of the bill's provisions

[2:06] involve business taxes or measures to

[2:08] improve compliance. In effect, measures

[2:10] to collect taxes that now go unpaid. The

[2:13] lobbyists intimately involved with each

[2:15] clause, provision, and paragraph of this

[2:17] bill, however, are probably not as

[2:18] important anymore as the lobbyists

[2:20] working the political angles.

[2:22] >> Is your is your boss came up with any

[2:23] kind of a position yet?

[2:24] >> Business is intensely working both sides

[2:26] of the street. The American Business

[2:28] Conference, for example, running a

[2:29] boiler room operation for the bill,

[2:31] while the US Chamber of Commerce is

[2:33] working against it. basically were in

[2:35] opposition to this bill, not to be

[2:36] obstructionist, but simply to because

[2:40] the Congress has not held firm on its

[2:42] spending goals.

[2:44] >> And of course, the administration is

[2:45] lobbying. Secretary of the Treasury

[2:47] Donald Rean used to run the giant Maril

[2:49] Lynch brokerage house. Now he's a

[2:51] door-to-door salesman for the tax bill.

[2:53] >> Obviously, of course, uh we want your

[2:55] vote uh in favor. A lot of people say

[2:58] this is the biggest tax increase in

[3:00] history. We don't believe that. The

[3:02] point being, the lobbying for votes is

[3:03] underway before the final version of the

[3:05] bill is written. This is now as much a

[3:07] political fight, a test of the

[3:09] president's strength as it is a debate

[3:11] over tax proposals. Charles Gibson, ABC

[3:13] News, Capitol Hill.

[3:16] This is Sam Donaldson. President Reagan

[3:18] dressed in an eyepopping outfit left for

[3:20] Camp David late today after continuing

[3:22] to apply the blitz, opponents say the

[3:24] rack and thumb screw, to wavering

[3:27] members of Congress on the tax bill. The

[3:29] unpersuaded came in and out of the White

[3:30] House all day to hear the presidential

[3:32] message.

[3:33] >> You're going to vote with him?

[3:34] >> Well, I didn't say I'm going to, but

[3:36] >> the Republican National Committee

[3:38] continued distributing presidential

[3:39] letters across the country appealing for

[3:41] support. Ronald Reagan paid television

[3:43] ads were poised for airing.

[3:45] >> We have made a beginning and our program

[3:48] is working.

[3:49] >> So were paid radio spots on the

[3:51] president's behalf. We need Congress to

[3:53] pass the president's legislation. And

[3:55] the president himself made a surprise

[3:57] visit to the White House press room to

[3:59] argue the case.

[4:00] >> To begin with, this tax bill is not, as

[4:04] it has so often been mislabeled, the

[4:06] biggest tax increase in history. That's

[4:09] plain hogwash.

[4:10] >> The hardest part of arguing the case for

[4:12] Mr. Reagan is perhaps explaining why

[4:14] last year his push was for tax cuts,

[4:17] this year for tax hikes.

[4:19] >> There isn't any flip-flop on this at

[4:20] all. Um,

[4:23] I would prefer to reduce our budget

[4:26] deficits by continuing to reduce

[4:29] government spending, but it became clear

[4:32] that we could not get the spending cuts

[4:36] we were asking for unless we would agree

[4:39] to some increases in revenue.

[4:41] >> Sir, do you approve

[4:43] threatening Republican congressman on

[4:45] the tax bill there?

[4:46] >> Now, having asked that, I have to answer

[4:47] that. No, we're we're not threatening

[4:49] anybody, and I'm going to do everything

[4:51] I can to get all the Republicans I can

[4:53] uh into office.

[4:55] >> No threat, says the president, but lots

[4:57] of pressure, including that ultimate of

[4:58] Reagan weapons, a television address to

[5:00] the nation, announced for Monday evening

[5:02] from the Oval Office. So, flip-flop or

[5:04] not, the push here now is on to raise

[5:06] taxes with aids increasingly confident

[5:08] that Ronald Reagan still has the magic

[5:11] to convince enough people to buy it. Sam

[5:13] Donaldson, ABC News, the White House.

[5:16] Squarely at the center of this economic

[5:18] hurricane is the Democratic chairman of

[5:20] the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan

[5:22] Rustinowski. He's standing by live now

[5:24] in front of the House Ways and Means

[5:26] Committee conference room. Congressman,

[5:28] why is it that I get the impression that

[5:30] perhaps the strongest ally that the

[5:32] president of the United States, a

[5:33] Republican, has is the Democratic

[5:35] chairman of the House Ways and Means

[5:36] Committee?

[5:37] >> Well, Ted, because it's an economic

[5:39] issue, and I think that uh we have

[5:41] drifted for such a long period of time

[5:43] that we're in a recovery period. I'm

[5:46] just happy to be working uh with some

[5:49] sensible members uh of both parties uh

[5:53] that feel that uh one uh the programs

[5:56] that have been initiated by this

[5:58] administration last year are not

[6:00] working. And uh if I were going to give

[6:02] credit to anyone, I'd give credit to the

[6:04] administration and recognizing that they

[6:06] need a midcourse correction and that I'm

[6:09] going to cooperate with them uh to

[6:10] affect that midcourse correction.

[6:12] >> Congressman, there's a question of

[6:13] definition. Now, when we talk about a

[6:14] hundred billion dollar tax increase, the

[6:16] president says it's not the biggest tax

[6:18] increase and that much of it really is

[6:21] not a tax increase at all. Where do you

[6:22] come down?

[6:23] >> Well, there there are certain provisions

[6:25] in the bill, Ted, that uh that call for

[6:27] compliance and that I I'd agree that uh

[6:30] these are not new taxes in certain

[6:32] areas. These are taxes that should have

[6:34] been paid uh that have been negligent.

[6:36] Uh there there is however uh a uh a

[6:40] recovery program that I think is

[6:42] necessary in areas that we were in

[6:44] excess last year. Uh the people that

[6:46] will be affected by this by the

[6:48] provisions of this bill are those that

[6:51] enjoyed the excess tax reductions last

[6:54] year.

[6:54] >> Now the Senate House Conference

[6:56] Committee is on a dinner break right

[6:57] now. When they come back later, what

[6:59] additional taxes are you all going to be

[7:01] hitting us with later today? Well, uh,

[7:03] we've, uh, we have a great many of the

[7:05] measures behind us, I think. However, as

[7:07] in every conference and in every debate,

[7:09] uh, the sticky portions are still yet to

[7:11] come. And of course, that's the the

[7:14] taxes that have to do with people, areas

[7:16] like the telephone tax and the cigarette

[7:18] tax. And these are hard hard decisions

[7:21] for members to make. Who likes to raise

[7:22] taxes?

[7:23] >> All right. In the in the few seconds

[7:24] we've got left, though, make a quick

[7:26] prediction. You know how this thing's

[7:27] going to turn out. Are we going to get

[7:28] those taxes or not? Well, I think

[7:30] reasonable people will get together and

[7:32] we'll have a victory next uh next year

[7:34] for the economic future of the country,

[7:36] >> which means what? More cigarette taxes,

[7:38] more phone taxes.

[7:39] >> Well, we'll we'll try to make that as

[7:40] famous as possible, but I think that

[7:42] we're going to have to raise revenues,

[7:44] and this is the only way that we're

[7:45] going to get people back to work.

[7:46] >> All right, Congressman Rosski, thanks

[7:48] very much indeed. We'll have more news

[7:50] in a moment.

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[8:58] >> with the guns stilled in Lebanon.

[9:00] President Reagan today said US Envoy

[9:02] Philip Hhabib's peace negotiations are

[9:04] back on track and down to the

[9:06] technicalities of a PLO evacuation of

[9:08] Beirut. The president told reporters at

[9:11] his impromptu news conference he is

[9:13] reasonably optimistic the latest

[9:14] ceasefire will hold. Reporting on

[9:17] today's activity in the Middle East,

[9:18] here is Peter Jennings tonight back in

[9:20] Jerusalem. Peter

[9:23] >> Ted Beirut is free from bombing and

[9:25] shelling today. Here in Jerusalem,

[9:26] elements of the political establishment

[9:28] are still reeling a little after the

[9:30] pressure that President Reagan exerted

[9:32] on Israel yesterday. The defense

[9:34] minister, Ariel Chiron, came under more

[9:36] criticism when he appeared before a

[9:37] parliamentary committee today. The

[9:39] defense minister said here this morning

[9:41] he hoped the PLO would begin evacuating

[9:44] West Beirut by late next week. In West

[9:46] Beirut, the day after such Israeli

[9:48] raids, it's time to take stock. Here's

[9:50] ABC's Jack Smith.

[9:53] >> As the cease fire went into effect last

[9:55] night, the sounds of firing could still

[9:56] be heard. But this morning, the city was

[9:59] quiet and residents here were out

[10:01] surveying the destruction. Fires were

[10:03] still burning in some sections of town.

[10:05] But with the ceasefire holding, Beirut

[10:07] city firemen were out for the first time

[10:09] in over a week doing their job.

[10:11] According to Beirut newspapers, the

[10:13] Israelis rained down 44,000 bomb shells

[10:16] and rockets on the city yesterday,

[10:18] destroying some 800 homes. One paper

[10:21] here called it horrendous Thursday. PLO

[10:24] leaders like George Habash of the

[10:26] Radical Popular Front for the Liberation

[10:27] of Palestine walked through the ruins

[10:30] checking the damage. Please tell the

[10:32] United States citizens that in one way

[10:36] or another they bear a great

[10:40] responsibility

[10:42] by assisting Israel to do all these

[10:46] damages.

[10:47] >> Beirut radio says there were 500 dead

[10:50] and wounded in yesterday's bombardment.

[10:52] Most are believed to be civilian

[10:54] casualties. With hospital supplies

[10:56] running low here, Red Cross convoys were

[10:58] allowed into West Beirut today, bearing

[11:00] food, medicine, and water. With the

[11:02] ceasefire holding, Lebanese Prime

[11:04] Minister Shafi al-wisan left his home

[11:06] here in West Beirut today to resume the

[11:08] talks that he broke off yesterday. Wazan

[11:10] said he had some fresh ideas to offer US

[11:13] Envoy Philip Habib. Sources here say the

[11:16] Lebanese government now agrees to the

[11:18] PLO's leaving a few days before the

[11:20] multinational force arrives here, which

[11:22] is what Israel wants, but only if the

[11:24] Lebanese army is allowed in with UN

[11:26] observers and if President Reagan

[11:28] guarantees that Israel will not attack.

[11:31] Jack Smith, ABC News, inside West

[11:33] Beirut. Here in Jerusalem, it is still

[11:36] understood there's a chance for the

[11:37] negotiations to falter. Israel and the

[11:39] PLO may still yet differ on how many PLO

[11:42] fighters there are. and Israel still

[11:44] resists any UN observers. In Israel,

[11:47] however, it is the political future of

[11:49] Ariel Chiron which has made today's

[11:51] headlines. He himself has brushed aside

[11:54] calls from his political opposition that

[11:56] he should resign. Cheron was born in

[11:58] Palestine before Israel became a state.

[12:01] He's about as subtle as a tank, revered

[12:03] by many of the men he's led in battle,

[12:05] reviled by a military establishment he's

[12:08] very often ignored. In the 1956 war

[12:11] disaster, he led his men beyond his

[12:13] commander's orders into an Egyptian

[12:15] ambush. More than 30 were killed. In

[12:18] 1967, he led his men through the

[12:20] Egyptian defenses to win a significant

[12:22] battle. In the territories captured by

[12:25] Israel during that war, a developing

[12:26] reputation for brutality. Chiron's

[12:29] crackdown on dissident Palestinians in

[12:31] the Gaza Strip led his commander Moshe

[12:34] Dian to remove him. In the 1973 war,

[12:37] Chiron, the brilliant soldier at his

[12:39] best, albeit once again defying orders.

[12:42] When he and his men crossed the Suez

[12:44] Canal and attacked the Egyptians from

[12:46] their rear, it proved to be the turning

[12:48] point of the war. A previously

[12:50] despondent public began calling him

[12:52] Eric, King of Israel. Chiron has little

[12:55] regard for the views with which he

[12:57] disagrees. As Prime Minister Bean's

[12:59] first minister of agriculture, he

[13:01] inspired the massive program to

[13:03] establish Jewish settlements on the

[13:04] occupied West Bank. Chiron wanted so

[13:07] many Jews on the West Bank, no Israeli

[13:09] government would dare remove them.

[13:11] Chiron, the pragmatist. When the Israeli

[13:14] government decided to leave Egypt Sinai

[13:16] Peninsula, it was Chiron who told the

[13:18] hardline settlers, "Leave or I'll remove

[13:20] you." There are no neutral views about

[13:22] Chiron. A former chief of staff says he

[13:25] uses force for its own sake and force is

[13:28] his favorite solution. A member of his

[13:30] own government is quoted as saying he's

[13:32] a danger to democracy. In 1980, Prime

[13:35] Minister Bean denying Chiron the defense

[13:37] ministry said, "If I give it to him, he

[13:40] might surround the prime minister's

[13:41] office with tanks." Joke or not, a year

[13:44] later Chiron had the job he coveted, and

[13:47] now Lebanon has embroiled him in

[13:48] controversy again. There are two views

[13:51] here of what will happen to Cheron now.

[13:53] One suggests that his political future

[13:55] has been dealt a serious blow. The other

[13:58] suggests he will take two steps

[13:59] backward, wait for the storm to blow

[14:01] over, and then operate again as he

[14:04] always has. Ted, in Poland today,

[14:08] violence, riot police in both Warsaw and

[14:10] Gaddans used flares, tear gas, and water

[14:12] cannon to break up demonstrations by as

[14:14] many as 10,000 supporters of solidarity.

[14:17] Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of

[14:19] the independent Polish trade union.

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[16:03] now. More on the economy. Producer

[16:05] prices. Prices at the wholesale level

[16:07] rose a moderate 6/10en of 1% in July as

[16:10] falling food prices were largely offset

[16:12] by sharply higher energy costs. The

[16:15] current recession has taken a heavy toll

[16:16] on American corporations. Last month,

[16:19] one of the country's largest

[16:20] international harvester was forced to

[16:22] make drastic cutbacks in its operations

[16:24] in an effort to avert financial

[16:26] disaster. And the company's attempt to

[16:28] save itself has pitted two Midwestern

[16:30] cities against each other. Tonight, Max

[16:32] Robinson is in one of them. Fort Wayne,

[16:35] Indiana. Max.

[16:37] >> Just a few weeks ago, International

[16:39] Harvester announced plans to shut down

[16:41] one of its two domestic truck

[16:42] manufacturing plants, touching off a

[16:44] fierce battle for one of this nation's

[16:46] scarcest resources these days, jobs.

[16:49] This is Fort Wayne, Indiana, population

[16:52] 178,000. And this is its biggest

[16:55] employer, the International Harvester

[16:57] Truck Plant. This is Springfield, Ohio,

[16:59] population 70,000. And this is its

[17:02] biggest employer, the International

[17:04] Harvester Truck Plant. So, if either

[17:06] plant closes, the results will be

[17:08] devastating. In Fort Wayne, city

[17:10] officials say some 4,700 International

[17:12] Harvester jobs will be lost and another

[17:14] 8,000 other jobs will be lost as a

[17:17] result. That would send the unemployment

[17:19] rate soaring to 22%. In Springfield,

[17:22] city officials say 3,400 harvester jobs

[17:25] would be eliminated and another 1,000

[17:27] support jobs would disappear as well.

[17:29] The unemployment rate there would hit at

[17:31] least 20%. But the head of Harvesters

[17:34] Truck Division says one or the other

[17:36] must go.

[17:36] >> So it's the impact of our economy that

[17:40] is really the culprit in this whole

[17:42] thing far more so than our own company

[17:45] or certainly the communities involved.

[17:47] >> So both communities are competing to

[17:49] keep their factories in business. Just

[17:51] yesterday, after months of negotiations,

[17:53] Ohio approved a $30 million financial

[17:56] plan to buy the Springfield plant and

[17:58] lease it back to Harvester, arguing

[18:00] their plant is newer and more efficient.

[18:02] >> If it doesn't come up Springfield, then

[18:04] I question the long-term business

[18:07] decision making process at International

[18:10] Harvester.

[18:11] >> In Fort Wayne, civic leaders have

[18:13] launched a media blitz and letterw

[18:14] writing campaign, complete with a

[18:16] downtown rally today to convince

[18:18] Harvester to keep the Fort Wayne plant

[18:19] open. So far, Fort Wayne has come up

[18:22] with a $22 million aid package, but

[18:24] hopes to eventually offer harvest to $37

[18:26] million, 7 million more than

[18:28] Springfield. Fort Wayne's mayor denies

[18:31] there's a bidding war, but admits the

[18:32] city cannot afford to lose the plant.

[18:34] >> Our recession level unemployment of 12%

[18:39] now would move to depression level

[18:41] unemployment. That would be the worst

[18:44] economic times that we've ever

[18:46] experienced in in Fort Wayne. And for

[18:48] the thousands of workers in both cities,

[18:50] many who have been laid off before, it's

[18:52] an agonizing weight.

[18:54] >> It's not a good atmosphere to work

[18:56] under, you know, one day to the next.

[18:58] But um,

[19:00] you know, you just keep going.

[19:02] >> I think that's just uh a game that

[19:05] they're playing. I think that's big

[19:06] business and big money. Why not get what

[19:08] you can get?

[19:10] >> A decision could come as early as next

[19:12] week, but analysts say this kind of

[19:13] competition for factories and jobs is

[19:15] just beginning. that as industries get

[19:17] smaller, there will be more plant

[19:19] closings. And this tale of two cities

[19:21] may be just the first chapter. But in

[19:24] other cities across the country, it's

[19:25] the workers themselves who are leading

[19:27] the fight to save their jobs and keep

[19:29] their plants open. Economics editor Dan

[19:32] Courtz has that story. Last year at this

[19:35] time, the atmosphere in this plant in

[19:36] Clark, New Jersey, was as grim as it is

[19:38] now in Fort Wayne and Springfield.

[19:41] General Motors had announced plans to

[19:42] end operations, throwing 1,600 people

[19:45] out of work. I I didn't know what I was

[19:47] going to do for a living.

[19:48] >> I felt betrayed by General Motors.

[19:50] >> There was a lot of panic in the plant

[19:52] and bitter feelings and mixed feelings,

[19:55] you know.

[19:56] >> But today, in spite of troubles in the

[19:58] car industry, the plant is still turning

[20:00] out auto bearings. 1,200 workers are

[20:02] still on the payroll, and the move from

[20:04] the factory floor to the executive

[20:06] offices is decidedly upbeat. the past

[20:09] few months we have we have shown a

[20:11] slight profit and we are we're

[20:14] forecasting holding that.

[20:16] >> How did it happen? An unusual coalition

[20:19] of United Auto Workers Union members and

[20:21] their bosses managed to borrow $53

[20:24] million to buy the plant, aided by a

[20:26] three-year contract to provide a fixed

[20:28] percentage of GM's bearing needs. Most

[20:31] of the loan is to be paid off over the

[20:33] next 10 years from profits and then all

[20:35] of the common stock in Hyatt Clark

[20:37] Industries will be owned by its

[20:39] employees. If that sounds easy, it

[20:42] wasn't. In fact, experts say that worker

[20:45] takeovers rarely have a chance.

[20:47] >> Of the different organizations and and

[20:49] unions that come to us, we probably go

[20:51] with only one of 10. And even then, uh

[20:54] it's not always possible to to make the

[20:58] company go. For example, in Youngstown,

[21:00] Ohio, a lengthy effort by workers and

[21:02] community groups to buy an abandoned

[21:04] steel mill collapsed when they couldn't

[21:06] raise the $245 million needed. And a

[21:09] similar campaign in Warton, West

[21:11] Virginia, seems unlikely to succeed for

[21:13] the same reason, a $200 million price

[21:16] tag. So, the odds against success are

[21:18] greatest in just those troubled

[21:20] industries facing the heaviest job

[21:21] losses. At first, the Clark takeover

[21:24] also faced reluctance on the part of

[21:26] both GM and the UAW International Union.

[21:29] Even many employees had doubts.

[21:31] >> Yeah, we knew it was a long shot, but a

[21:34] long shot is better than no shot is how

[21:36] we saw it. The plant was going to shut

[21:38] down. If we didn't take the action that

[21:40] we took, we wouldn't be sitting here

[21:42] talking about it at all. There would be

[21:43] no jobs, no plant, nothing.

[21:46] >> Almost everyone in the plant had to take

[21:48] pay cuts. In some cases, as much as 40%.

[21:52] Some of that is now being made up by

[21:53] bonuses based on productivity. But the

[21:56] typical worker still takes home about

[21:58] $100 a week, less than when GM ran the

[22:00] plant. Lower labor costs and increased

[22:03] efficiency, though allow the plant to

[22:05] produce bearings at a lower price, which

[22:08] officials say will let them compete

[22:10] successfully for GM's business when the

[22:12] contract runs out. And the company is

[22:14] also launching a drive to design and

[22:16] sell new products. Employee takeovers of

[22:19] factories rarely get beyond the dreaming

[22:21] stage. And when they actually take

[22:23] place, they do involve costs. For

[22:25] example, those pay cuts that people here

[22:27] had to accept. But as the experience of

[22:29] this plant shows, sometimes worker

[22:31] takeovers do succeed. And when they do,

[22:34] they're an effective way to save jobs

[22:36] that otherwise would disappear.

[22:38] Dan Courtz, ABC News, Clark, New Jersey.

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[25:51] the western skies from Canada to Mexico.

[25:53] Now there are fewer than 30. The only

[25:56] adult California condor in captivity is

[25:58] Topa Topa, who has led a bachelor

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[26:03] since he was found injured in the

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[26:30] man's struggle to save the California

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[26:35] News, Los Angeles.

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[28:18] at the White House over the hundred

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[28:23] in Washington. For all of us here at ABC

[28:25] News, good evening,

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[28:46] An ABC News closeup.

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