NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-08

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[0:08] >> This is NBC Nightly News. Reporting from

[0:11] New York, Bob Jameson.

[0:14] >> Good evening. Despite optimism

[0:16] throughout the day that a settlement

[0:17] might be near in the Middle East, we

[0:18] have late word this evening of renewed

[0:20] heavy artillery fire in West Beirut.

[0:22] There had been only sporadic shooting in

[0:24] Beirut this weekend where the Palestine

[0:26] Liberation Organization is reported

[0:28] ready to pull out and go to Syria,

[0:30] Egypt, Jordan, and perhaps Tunisia.

[0:32] After a letter from Secretary of State

[0:34] George Schultz, Prime Minister Bean

[0:35] indicated his willingness to compromise

[0:37] on a key Israeli demand and allow a

[0:39] multinational force to enter Lebanon

[0:42] before all of the PLO had gone. Martin

[0:44] Fletcher reports now from Tel Aviv.

[0:48] Israeli armored vehicles ready for

[0:50] battle headed north this afternoon

[0:52] towards Beirut. All signs had pointed to

[0:54] an imminent Israeli assault on PLO

[0:56] positions, but then fear of more war

[0:59] turned to hope for peace. The Israeli

[1:01] government received a letter from

[1:03] Secretary of State George Schultz. The

[1:05] cabinet met and called the letter

[1:07] important. Government sources said it

[1:09] contained dramatic news. Schultz told

[1:11] the Israelis Ambassador Habib will have

[1:13] agreement on the PLO evacuation within

[1:16] 48 hours and Began's reply indicated

[1:19] Israel is now ready to compromise on

[1:21] when to admit the multinational

[1:23] peacekeeping force. Defense Minister

[1:25] Chiron left early to see Habib in

[1:27] Beirut. He said the other outstanding

[1:29] problem could not be solved yet. No Arab

[1:32] country would take the PLO. That

[1:34] pessimism sets Chiron apart from many of

[1:37] his colleagues.

[1:39] Some critics complain it's almost as if

[1:42] Chiron wants more fighting. But despite

[1:44] Chiron, there was a subtle shift in

[1:46] atmosphere towards what the foreign

[1:48] ministry called cautious optimism. Prime

[1:51] Minister Begin told military graduates

[1:53] he believed the PLO will leave Beirut

[1:55] soon and that the Israeli army would not

[1:57] have to go into Beirut. And he gave

[1:59] details of a possible Israeli

[2:01] compromise. He said as many as 2,000 PLO

[2:04] fighters could stay in Beirut after the

[2:06] peacekeeping force arrived as part of a

[2:09] two-phase withdrawal. But if they didn't

[2:11] leave on schedule, which is Israel's

[2:13] biggest fear, then began said the peace

[2:15] force must depart Beirut, leaving the

[2:17] Israelis free to take the rest of the

[2:19] PLO out by force. On his way out, Began

[2:23] summed up the developments of the day.

[2:25] >> Mr. Prime Minister, are you optimistic

[2:27] the situation will be resolved?

[2:29] >> Indeed. Yes. We hope that the terrorists

[2:32] will soon leave Beirut.

[2:34] >> How soon?

[2:35] >> And Lebanon.

[2:36] >> But Began's government has said

[2:38] repeatedly they don't trust the PLO.

[2:40] They hope this isn't another stalling

[2:42] tactic.

[2:43] >> Martin Fletcher, NBC News, Jerusalem.

[2:46] >> Bolstered by signs of Israeli

[2:48] flexibility in Washington, the Reagan

[2:50] administration expressed new confidence

[2:52] that the mission of Ambassador Philip

[2:53] Habib would succeed. More from White

[2:55] House correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

[3:00] Israeli officials like Ambassador Mosha

[3:02] Arens went on American television to

[3:04] signal Israel's flexibility and desire

[3:07] for a negotiated settlement. Aarons on

[3:09] CBS's Face the Nation.

[3:11] >> Of all the parties that want the PLO

[3:13] terrorists out of West Beirut, the

[3:14] Lebanese, the United States, the Israel,

[3:17] Israelis. The one that is most

[3:19] interested in doing this by negotiations

[3:21] are the Israelis because they would be

[3:22] taking the casualty. He called Israeli

[3:24] shelling turning the screw to help the

[3:26] talks along, not sabotage them.

[3:29] >> If there is any kind of hope for a

[3:31] successful conclusion of the

[3:32] negotiations, it is no doubt the direct

[3:35] result of the screw having been turned.

[3:37] Otherwise, we wouldn't have a chance of

[3:38] concluding these negotiations.

[3:39] >> Aarons indicated that when to deploy the

[3:41] multinational force might not be a major

[3:44] sticking point. And on ABC's this week,

[3:46] foreign minister Shamir was talking

[3:48] compromise. Our former position was that

[3:51] the multinational force has to come

[3:54] after all of them, all of the POV left

[3:58] Beirut and Lebanon.

[4:01] Now we are ready to accept a compromise

[4:05] that the multinational force

[4:08] will be able to come

[4:10] after the majority of them have left.

[4:15] Today's Israeli statements bear out the

[4:16] administration's belief that Israel will

[4:18] eventually accept Hhabib's solution. The

[4:21] view here tonight is that while

[4:22] mechanical details remain, an agreement

[4:24] is near. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News at

[4:27] the White House.

[4:29] >> Before he met Israeli Defense Minister

[4:31] Chiron today, Ambassador Habib chaired a

[4:33] meeting of countries that would help

[4:34] deploy the peacekeeping force in

[4:35] Lebanon. France says its troops, the

[4:37] Vanguard, could be in Lebanon on just a

[4:39] day's notice. Vic Aken reports from

[4:41] Beirut.

[4:44] High-ranking French officers, top

[4:46] Lebanese military men, and the Italian

[4:48] ambassador were all involved in the

[4:50] talks at the American ambassador's

[4:52] residence here in East Beirut.

[4:55] The Italian ambassador, Franco Otieri,

[4:57] said that the talks with special envoy

[4:59] Philip Habib centered on the formation

[5:01] and deployment of a multinational force.

[5:04] the situation is approaching to the to

[5:07] the to to a solution hopefully and uh

[5:11] together with our American and French

[5:13] friends we are we are making uh

[5:16] preparations for the eventual deployment

[5:18] of a multinational force.

[5:22] >> Hopes for a peaceful solution have been

[5:24] shattered before and the Israelis

[5:26] continue to move their heavy weapons

[5:28] into new positions. Despite the guarded

[5:30] optimism that a peace plan may be near,

[5:33] there are still sporadic artillery

[5:35] jewels between Palestinian and Israeli

[5:37] gunners here in Beirut. And besides

[5:39] that, the Syrians and the Egyptians both

[5:41] publicly say that they will not take in

[5:43] any Palestinian fighters. Vic Aken, NBC

[5:47] News in East Beirut. So far, only Jordan

[5:51] has announced publicly that it is

[5:52] willing to accept members of the PLO,

[5:54] but a key Lebanese negotiator is quoted

[5:56] as saying that a timetable for the

[5:58] departure should be announced in a

[5:59] couple of days. And in the PLO

[6:01] stronghold of West Beirut, the

[6:03] organization's newspaper said the

[6:05] decision to pull out had been taken, and

[6:07] PLO officials said privately they had

[6:09] abandoned all hope of surviving in

[6:11] Beirut. Jim Compton has more from West

[6:14] Beirut. Lebanese officials are more

[6:16] hopeful than ever before the

[6:18] Palestinians will exit peacefully from

[6:20] Beirut. The former prime minister Sab

[6:22] Salam is one of the key middlemen

[6:24] between Yaser Arafat and presidential

[6:26] envoy Philip Hav.

[6:28] >> People are perhaps more hopeful than

[6:30] ever before. The more people to me are

[6:32] in despair, the more they look up with

[6:35] hope. But knowing the Israelis as one

[6:39] does, one doesn't trust them at all. And

[6:42] I think they are determined. They have

[6:44] been determined all the time to kill the

[6:47] hhabib mission. If the American

[6:50] administration for once stops being or

[6:52] yielding to the Israeli pressure, I

[6:54] think things will be will turn different

[6:57] here.

[6:58] >> These fighters in a refugee camp

[7:00] surrounded on three sides by Israeli

[7:02] forces came from several countries to

[7:04] volunteer for this war. If an evacuation

[7:07] settlement is reached, they say they

[7:08] will follow Yaser Arafat's orders. If

[7:11] Yaser Arafat says we go out,

[7:13] >> yes,

[7:14] >> do you go out?

[7:15] >> It's Yaser Arafat. He is our leader

[7:18] >> and uh his wishes it's order for us.

[7:23] >> Beirut battered by two months of war is

[7:26] holding on in what everyone acknowledges

[7:28] is the most delicate moment in the

[7:29] political process yet. Refugees continue

[7:33] to flood out of the city in fear that a

[7:35] final showdown will come. But most stay

[7:39] behind, braving the sweltering heat and

[7:41] food shortages because they have nowhere

[7:44] else to go.

[7:47] More and more Palestinians patrol the

[7:49] city center. No one knows if they will

[7:53] leave.

[7:54] James Compton, NBC News, West Beirut.

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[9:31] >> At their meeting in Oklahoma, the

[9:33] nation's governors are voicing

[9:34] frustration over President Reagan's new

[9:36] federalism program. In fact, after

[9:38] failure to get White House concessions,

[9:40] the governors now may draft their own

[9:41] version of new federalism. Dan Molina

[9:44] reports.

[9:49] The governors chose a sprawling resort

[9:51] designed with a tropical flare for their

[9:53] annual meeting. There's a bit of time in

[9:55] the agenda for enjoying it all, but

[9:57] dominating this gathering is a

[9:59] determination among many governors to

[10:01] challenge the president on two key

[10:02] issues. First to emerge today was

[10:05] opposition to the new federalism plan

[10:07] the president outlined in his state of

[10:09] the union message. The chairman of the

[10:11] governor's association, Richard Snelling

[10:13] of Vermont, says 6 months of negotiating

[10:15] with the administration hasn't resolved

[10:18] key issues, and the states may draw up

[10:20] their own plan for redistributing

[10:22] federal programs.

[10:23] >> There is a disagreement between the

[10:26] governors and at least some of the folks

[10:27] in the White House as to what the

[10:29] ultimate responsibility of the federal

[10:31] government is.

[10:32] >> Snelling says that responsibility

[10:34] includes keeping welfare payments on the

[10:36] federal level. The president wants those

[10:38] payments to come from the states. The

[10:40] principal White House aid attending the

[10:42] conference says there's still hope that

[10:44] an agreement can be reached.

[10:45] >> Officials, it's a flexible thing. There

[10:47] have been about 35 or 40 compromises,

[10:49] some by them, some by us, and really

[10:52] being down to about four issues is quite

[10:54] a an achievement.

[10:55] >> The second overriding issue at the

[10:57] governor's conference is the proposed

[10:59] balanced budget amendment. In a

[11:01] blistering attack, Representative James

[11:03] Jones, chairman of the House Budget

[11:04] Committee, told the governors the

[11:06] president is practicing the politics of

[11:08] evasion. He called the proposal an

[11:10] economic coverup. There's no clear

[11:12] consensus among the governors on this

[11:14] question so far. Dan Molina, NBC News,

[11:17] Afton, Oklahoma. In Washington,

[11:19] prosecutors will go to court tomorrow to

[11:21] argue that John W. Hinckley Jr., the man

[11:23] who shot President Reagan, is so insane

[11:26] that he should be committed to a mental

[11:27] hospital indefinitely. For many, the

[11:30] idea that Hinckley may ever go free is

[11:31] an indictment of the insanity defense,

[11:33] an issue that is at the top of the

[11:35] agenda at the American Bar Association's

[11:37] annual meeting in San Francisco. NBC law

[11:40] correspondent Carl Stern reports.

[11:43] After the deliberate and calculated

[11:45] shooting of President Reagan ended in

[11:47] John Hinckley's aquid by reason of

[11:49] insanity, there were immediate calls to

[11:51] abolish the insanity defense. There must

[11:54] be an end to the doctrine that allows so

[11:57] many persons to commit crimes of

[11:59] violence, to use confusing procedures to

[12:03] their own advantage, and then to have

[12:05] the door open to them to return to the

[12:08] society which they victimized.

[12:10] >> That issue is near the top of the list

[12:12] as lawyers are meeting this week at the

[12:14] annual convention of the American Bar

[12:16] Association. I believe that we will see

[12:19] a great change in the insanity defense

[12:21] in this country largely because of the

[12:23] public emotion behind the Hinckley

[12:24] verdict aqu quiddle all of a sudden

[12:26] because of the reaction to Hinckley we

[12:28] have people coming in saying we're going

[12:29] to eliminate this defense

[12:31] >> but you don't think that's going to

[12:32] happen I don't think they can do that I

[12:34] don't think they can do it because I

[12:35] don't think it would be constitutional

[12:36] >> I think it's very likely that it would

[12:39] be a violation of the constitutional

[12:41] rule of due process if they were to

[12:43] abolish it and although attempts will be

[12:45] made I I don't think that they will

[12:47] succeed.

[12:48] >> A bar association commission is drafting

[12:51] new standards retaining the insanity

[12:53] defense. Some members testified today.

[12:56] >> The ABA commission is not expected to

[12:58] complete its work for another two years,

[13:00] by which time it hopes reaction to the

[13:02] Hinckley verdict will have died down or

[13:04] the courts will have struck down efforts

[13:06] to abolish the insanity defense. Carl

[13:08] Stern, NBC News, San Francisco.

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[14:47] says he wants to live has been on a

[14:49] hunger strike since July 5th, hoping to

[14:51] force Soviet officials to let him leave

[14:53] and live with his American wife. Yuri

[14:55] Balaflankov has now been joined by his

[14:57] wife, a Baltimore nurse who says she

[14:59] will force feed her husband to keep him

[15:01] alive. Frank Burkholtzer reports.

[15:07] Yuri Balovenkov spends most of his time

[15:09] now in a narrow bed in a corner of his

[15:12] tiny living room in Moscow. He has lost

[15:14] onethird of his body weight, but not his

[15:17] will to live. Even though he is

[15:19] determined to continue his fast,

[15:21] whatever happens, I

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[15:31] once I'll die anymore.

[15:36] I'm ready,

[15:38] >> but I do I want to leave. I want to

[15:42] leave.

[15:44] >> Medical materials to force feed him may

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[15:49] According to his American wife, Elena,

[15:51] >> tomorrow is his day of reckoning. I

[15:54] mean, you can see that every day that

[15:56] goes by, as I said, you know, Yuda is

[15:59] dying. The ovir is the agency which must

[16:02] issue the document Yuri Malovinkov needs

[16:05] to join his family in America.

[16:07] >> I will go to the OIR tomorrow for the

[16:09] purposes of telling Yoda just exactly

[16:11] what we all know. The OA is not going to

[16:14] give him anything. They would like

[16:16] nothing more than for Yoda to die and be

[16:18] >> Frank Berg Holster NBC News Moscow.

[16:22] When martial law was imposed in Poland 8

[16:25] months ago, the authorities said it was

[16:26] necessary in order to revitalize the

[16:28] country's devastated economy without the

[16:30] continued disruption of the Solidarity

[16:32] labor movement. But labor peace in

[16:34] Poland may last only as long as the

[16:36] military regime. And as John Cochran

[16:38] reports tonight, the economy has only

[16:40] worsened under martial law.

[16:44] We'll call her Ana. She doesn't want us

[16:46] to use her real name. Anya is not happy

[16:49] with the inflation imposed by the

[16:51] martial law authorities. Food prices

[16:54] have risen 400% under martial law.

[16:58] So when Anna buys groceries for her

[17:00] family, she has to use some of the

[17:02] savings she accumulated when times were

[17:05] better in Poland.

[17:09] The authorities say higher prices are

[17:11] essential to restore the Polish economy

[17:13] to health. Higher prices and hard work.

[17:19] The only economic success story this

[17:21] year has been here in the coal mines.

[17:26] At the start of martial law, workers at

[17:28] this mine went on strike for 2 and 1/2

[17:30] weeks. The strike was broken when the

[17:33] authorities threatened imprisonment.

[17:35] That threat has kept miners on the job.

[17:38] The result, coal production has risen

[17:40] 17% this year.

[17:43] But steel production has not been a

[17:45] success story. Under martial law, steel

[17:48] production is down 18%.

[17:51] The Communist Party leader, General

[17:53] Yerroski, went to a steel plant to ask

[17:55] the workers what is wrong. He got an

[17:58] earful.

[18:01] >> The first complaint, we do not have

[18:02] enough workers to do our jobs properly.

[18:05] Young people refuse to work here because

[18:07] wages are low when working conditions

[18:09] terrible. Yazilkski's response. You

[18:12] should be glad to have fewer workers. If

[18:14] there were more, we would have to cut

[18:16] your wages.

[18:18] >> Another complaint. We do not have enough

[18:20] equipment to produce at capacity. We

[18:22] should be producing 20% more. Yazilski

[18:26] replied, I'll make a note of that.

[18:29] The workers also wanted to know about

[18:31] Leoa, the interned leader of their

[18:33] suspended Solidarity Union. The general

[18:36] said curtly that Binsa is in good

[18:39] health.

[18:41] >> On Friday, leaflets floated down onto a

[18:43] Warsaw street urging polls to

[18:45] demonstrate peacefully against the

[18:47] continued internment of solidarity

[18:49] activists. Those protests are scheduled

[18:51] for the last day of this month, the

[18:53] second birthday of solidarity.

[18:57] Already this summer, there have been

[18:59] peaceful protests. Demonstrations are

[19:01] illegal, so solidarity members have

[19:03] gathered at officially approved

[19:04] occasions such as the anniversary of the

[19:07] Warsaw uprising against the Nazis in

[19:10] 1944.

[19:12] They heard recorded messages from

[19:13] Solidarity leaders in hiding.

[19:18] For the moment, the Solidarity

[19:20] Underground is not calling for strikes

[19:22] which would further disrupt the economy.

[19:24] But the union has warned that its

[19:26] patience is not unlimited. John Cochran,

[19:30] NBC News, Warsaw.

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[21:13] uranium that could be used for nuclear

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[21:16] Accounting Office says the federal

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[21:23] Since 1954, the report says the US has

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[21:31] around the world. On Puet Sound in

[21:33] Washington State, the first Triton

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[21:37] protesters are there to greet it. Heidi

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[21:47] picking. Into these idyllic waters will

[21:50] come the first of the Trident

[21:51] submarines, the Ohio, armed with long

[21:53] range nuclear missiles. The missiles

[21:56] will be loaded at Banger, where the Navy

[21:57] has invested nearly a billion dollars in

[22:00] a home base for 10 Trident subs.

[22:03] >> Oh, Ronny Boy and the rest of you, we

[22:06] don't want your Trident.

[22:08] >> On the canal last week, opponents

[22:10] rehearsed a blockade. 30 of them plan to

[22:12] row small boats into the Ohio's path to

[22:15] stop it. We believe that it's a

[22:17] violation of God's law and of

[22:19] international law for um a first strike

[22:22] nuclear weapon to be deployed.

[22:24] >> Honk for Trident.

[22:28] >> The sub has supporters here. The Navy is

[22:30] the local economy.

[22:32] >> As long as it brings more revenue into

[22:34] the county, I think it's a good thing.

[22:35] People love more of

[22:39] >> it's not a good thing to the several

[22:41] thousand opponents who rallied against

[22:43] the sub today at an Indian reservation

[22:45] on the canal.

[22:46] >> Once one of the warheads goes off, I

[22:49] think that's the end of everybody.

[22:51] >> It threatens the world simply that it

[22:54] keeps going on like this, it's a matter

[22:56] of time

[22:57] >> before what?

[22:59] >> Annihilation. Religious leaders plan a

[23:02] peace vigil as the sub comes in, but

[23:05] don't know when that will be. The Navy

[23:07] is keeping the exact date classified.

[23:09] Heidi Schulman, NBC News, Point Julia,

[23:12] Washington.

[23:13] >> Japan's Coyoto News Service has reported

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[23:27] North America carrying plagueinfested

[23:30] rats and fleas, but the plan never

[23:32] materialized.

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[25:09] The Edsil seemed like a good idea at the

[25:11] time. A time when bigger was better and

[25:14] any new automobile seemed like a logical

[25:15] extension of the American dream. But

[25:17] that dream quickly turned into a

[25:19] nightmare for the Ford Motor Company

[25:20] which made the Edsil. This weekend, the

[25:23] 25th anniversary of that miscalculation,

[25:25] a group of people with a sense of

[25:27] history and a common experience gathered

[25:28] in Dearbornne, Michigan. Here's Jim

[25:30] Cumins.

[25:34] >> The Ford Motor Company had high hopes

[25:36] for the Edel when it was first

[25:37] introduced in 1957.

[25:44] >> What's ahead of the Edel? a permanent

[25:46] place on the American road.

[25:48] >> It was priced higher than a Chevy, less

[25:50] than a Buick. The Edel featured

[25:52] teletouch transmission control and dared

[25:55] to be different. It was It didn't sell.

[25:58] So Ford changed its sales pitch and

[26:01] pitcher.

[26:02] >> See, sit in drive tomorrow. The eye

[26:04] opener of the year, the 1959

[26:08] Edsil.

[26:09] >> That failed too. The company stopped

[26:12] production of the Edsil 2 years, 2

[26:14] months, and $250 million after it began.

[26:18] >> How does it feel to own an Edsil?

[26:20] >> It's like falling in love.

[26:23] >> That love affair never ended for the

[26:25] members of the Edsil Owners Club, who

[26:27] this weekend observed the 25th

[26:28] anniversary of the most conspicuous

[26:30] failure in American automobile history.

[26:33] Group founder Perry Piper remembers how

[26:35] these people came together. They had a

[26:37] car that they couldn't trade off. Nobody

[26:39] would give them anything for it. So they

[26:41] thought there was other people just like

[26:43] them around and we kind of got together

[26:44] as as kindred souls.

[26:47] >> Those kindred souls put their old cars

[26:49] on display at a shopping center in the

[26:51] shadow of Ford World headquarters. Some

[26:53] of the people walking by are too young

[26:55] to remember Edel.

[26:57] >> It's an Edel.

[27:00] >> The Edels were discontinued the day

[27:02] before I was born.

[27:03] Many of those old enough to remember

[27:05] have changed their minds about the car.

[27:07] >> The front end was an ugly looking thing.

[27:10] And uh

[27:11] >> how does it look to you today?

[27:12] >> Today it looks it looks uh very stylish.

[27:15] I'd buy one. Really?

[27:17] >> The Edel is now considered a classic by

[27:19] some people, sometimes selling for two

[27:21] or three times its original price. One

[27:24] Edel owner said, "We bought the lemons

[27:26] 25 years ago, but we're enjoying the

[27:28] lemonade today." Jim Cumins, NBC News,

[27:31] Dearbornne, Michigan.

[27:34] That's the news this Sunday evening.

[27:35] Roger Mud will report from Washington

[27:37] tomorrow night. Tom Brokoff from the

[27:38] Middle East. I'm Bob Jameson. Good night

[27:40] for NBC News.

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