CBS Evening News - 1977-06-30

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[0:01] This is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:04] Kronite.

[0:05] >> Good evening. President Carter said

[0:07] today he's decided not to build the B1

[0:10] bomber fleet and he believes Congress

[0:12] will go along with him. At a news

[0:14] conference, the president also said the

[0:16] strategic purposes of the B1 will be

[0:18] fulfilled by deployment of the air

[0:20] launched cruise missile. Ed Bradley

[0:22] reports.

[0:25] President Carter brought Defense

[0:26] Secretary Harold Brown with him to his

[0:28] news conference, perhaps to emphasize

[0:30] Brown's support for the president's

[0:31] decision. Mr. Carter had said that

[0:33] decision would probably be made in a

[0:35] very lonely way. Close aid said his

[0:37] inclinations hardened and his opinions

[0:39] jelled over a period of time. This has

[0:41] been one of the most difficult decisions

[0:43] that I've

[0:45] made since I've been in office.

[0:48] In the last few months, I've done my

[0:50] best to assess

[0:52] all the factors involved involving

[0:54] production of the B1 bomber.

[0:57] My decision is that we should not

[0:59] continue with deployment of the B1, and

[1:03] I am directing that we discontinue plans

[1:05] for production of this weapon system.

[1:08] The Secretary of Defense

[1:11] agrees that this is a preferable

[1:12] decision. The president indicated his

[1:14] decision was made with a sharp eye

[1:16] towards the Russians and our own defense

[1:18] needs and capabilities.

[1:20] >> However,

[1:21] during the coming months, we will also

[1:23] be able to assess the progress toward

[1:26] agreements on strategic arms limitations

[1:29] in order to determine the need for any

[1:31] additional investments in nuclear

[1:32] weapons delivery systems.

[1:35] In the meantime, we should begin

[1:38] deployment of cruise missiles using air

[1:41] launched platforms such as our B-52s

[1:44] modernized as necessary.

[1:46] >> Mr. Carter was asked if included in his

[1:48] B1 decision was a signal to the Soviet

[1:51] Union to speed up the arms limitation

[1:53] talks.

[1:55] >> I can't deny that that's a potential uh

[1:59] factor, but that has not been a reason

[2:02] for my decision. I think if if I had

[2:06] looked upon the B1 as uh simply a

[2:11] bargaining chip uh for the Soviets, then

[2:15] my decision would have been to go ahead

[2:17] with the weapon. If at the end of a few

[2:19] years the uh relations with the Soviets

[2:23] should deteriorate uh drastically, which

[2:26] I don't anticipate, then it may be

[2:29] necessary for me to change my mind. But

[2:31] I don't expect that to occur.

[2:34] >> During his campaign, Jimmy Carter called

[2:36] the B1 a waste of the taxpayers's money,

[2:38] but today indicated he was not wedded to

[2:40] that statement in making up his mind.

[2:44] Obviously, I've had available to me as

[2:46] president

[2:47] much of the classified analyses and

[2:50] information about weapon systems which I

[2:52] did not have before. And I tried to

[2:55] approach this question with an open

[2:57] mind. I've spent many hours reading

[3:01] those detailed technical reports, the

[3:04] advice of specialists on both sides and

[3:06] analysis of ultimate cost of weapons.

[3:08] And although obviously opinions are

[3:11] always hard to change, I deliberately

[3:14] tried not to let my campaign statements

[3:16] be the factor in this decision.

[3:19] >> One aid said, "Nothing in this world is

[3:21] final, but this decision is about as

[3:22] final as you can get. The Air Force will

[3:25] be able to keep its four planes for

[3:26] research and development. He said the

[3:28] only alternative would be to get a

[3:29] sledgehammer and go out and smash them.

[3:31] Ed Bradley, CBS News, the White House.

[3:34] Within hours of the president's

[3:36] announcement, the House passed a $ 110

[3:38] billion defense appropriations bill

[3:41] containing almost 2 billion for the B1.

[3:44] That measure now goes to the Senate and

[3:45] an anticipated fight over deleting that

[3:48] B1 money. We'll be back in a minute with

[3:50] reports on reaction to the B1 decision.

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[4:59] >> Reaction to President Carter's decision

[5:01] on the B1 bomber came quickly. Pro and

[5:04] con. Former President Ford in San

[5:06] Francisco branded it a mistake.

[5:08] >> The president's decision to cancel a B1

[5:12] bomber is a very risky gamble.

[5:17] He is relying on a B-52 that is 20 years

[5:20] or more older,

[5:24] an aircraft that was developed in the

[5:26] 1950s.

[5:29] He's also gambling on a cruise missile

[5:33] system that is still in the research and

[5:36] development stages.

[5:39] In my opinion, it's too big a gamble. We

[5:42] have reports too from Congress, from the

[5:44] Pentagon, and from the builder of the

[5:45] plane.

[5:47] >> A slap in Congress's face. That was the

[5:50] reaction from one Republican leader who

[5:52] noted that just this week the House had

[5:54] voted funds for five B1s.

[5:57] >> To me, the uh uh way in which the

[5:59] president has made this announcement is

[6:01] rank amateurism.

[6:03] >> I was pleased. I commend the president

[6:06] on his courageous decision. I don't

[6:09] admire a president who puts his campaign

[6:12] promises before the good of his country.

[6:15] >> He's not only saved the country tens of

[6:18] billions of dollars in foreclosing a

[6:21] needless weapon system, but in the

[6:24] process he has protected his own

[6:28] credibility. and their fighter pilots in

[6:30] their briefing rooms all across uh

[6:34] western Russia and Siberia are cheering

[6:37] because they know what an easier problem

[6:39] they have to shoot down a big old B-52

[6:42] than they ever would have had to contend

[6:43] with with a B1. Going in with a B1

[6:46] bomber would be a suicide mission. So I

[6:48] I think that there's no jubilation, no

[6:51] cause for jubilation in the Soviet

[6:53] Union. They they I think if they're

[6:55] breaking out the vodka, it's to drown

[6:57] their tears. The Democratic chairman of

[6:59] the House Appropriations Committee,

[7:01] George Mayan, served notice today that

[7:03] he will resist any effort to eliminate

[7:05] B1 funds from the final military

[7:07] appropriations bill. However, B1

[7:09] advocates concede that the president

[7:11] probably has the votes to sustain his

[7:13] decision. And even if Congress does end

[7:15] up ordering the president to go ahead,

[7:18] expenditures could be delayed easily

[7:20] until next year. Bill Jones, CBS News,

[7:23] Capitol Hill.

[7:25] >> Stunned disbelief. That was the reaction

[7:27] of Air Force brass when they got the

[7:29] word of the president's decision just

[7:31] seconds before the news conference. The

[7:33] generals believe the president would

[7:35] build perhaps half the 244 bombers they

[7:38] sought. But defense secretary Harold

[7:40] Brown recommended to the president that

[7:41] he dropped the B1 and approve instead

[7:44] the cruise missile as the cheapest, most

[7:46] effective way of adding punch to

[7:48] America's deterrent forces. When Brown

[7:50] was Air Force Secretary in the 1960s, he

[7:53] pushed for a new strategic bomber. But

[7:55] this was before the development of the

[7:56] cruise missile. Apparently, the cruise,

[7:59] a modern-day version of the pilotless

[8:01] World War II buzz bomb, changed Brown's

[8:03] mind about the need for a new man

[8:05] bomber. Launched from a B-52, current

[8:08] cruise models have a range of some 700

[8:10] air miles. Later versions may be able to

[8:13] fly up to,500 m to targets and to

[8:16] deliver nuclear bombs with pinpoint

[8:18] accuracy. Thus, the B-52s, far away from

[8:21] targets, would face less risk from enemy

[8:23] air defenses. The Air Force has begun

[8:26] modernizing its fleet of B-52s, many of

[8:28] them veterans of Vietnam action. The

[8:30] first cruise missile B-52 combinations

[8:33] are due to be deployed in June 1980, but

[8:36] that program may now be accelerated. One

[8:39] of the big factors in the president's

[8:40] decision, according to the sources, was

[8:42] cost. A single B1 is priced at over $100

[8:45] million. The crews $500,000 each. Ike

[8:49] Papis, CBS News. The Pentagon.

[8:51] >> This morning's test flight of the B1

[8:53] from Edwards Air Force Base was just

[8:55] about the only sure thing left in the

[8:57] project. Research and development will

[8:59] continue, but no one seems to know for

[9:01] how long. At Rockwell's B1 headquarters,

[9:04] engineers and route to work weren't sure

[9:06] how much longer their jobs would last,

[9:08] and they seem shocked.

[9:09] >> It's like I better start looking for

[9:12] something else. I guess

[9:13] >> it was a surprise. I didn't expect him.

[9:15] uh to stop it completely.

[9:17] >> Well, I voted for him. I thought he was

[9:19] smarter than this. So,

[9:20] >> B1 Division President Bastian Hel

[9:23] claimed the announcement caught him by

[9:24] surprise. He said he was given no

[9:26] advanced warning by the White House. He

[9:28] offered this estimate of the immediate

[9:30] impact of the president's decision. Uh

[9:33] that impact will in all probability mean

[9:36] when we get our instructions through our

[9:38] contract

[9:40] uh a uh immediate layoff of about 8,000

[9:43] people

[9:44] out of a workforce of some um uh 13,000

[9:49] that we have now.

[9:51] >> One union official said loss of the

[9:53] contract will cause thousands of workers

[9:54] to leave California in search of new

[9:56] jobs. nationally over a 10-year period.

[9:59] He claimed it would affect 17 states and

[10:01] that 291,000 jobs will not now be

[10:04] created. As work went forward on the

[10:07] fourth plane and probably the last model

[10:09] of the B1, one Air Force officer on the

[10:11] project scribbled the following epitap

[10:14] on his deskpad. D-Day. Carter says no to

[10:17] B1. 6 years down the tubes. Murray from

[10:21] CBS News, Elsagundo, California.

[10:24] six years and almost $4 billion in

[10:27] development costs. Trading in Rockwell

[10:29] International stock, by the way, was

[10:30] halted for four hours today after

[10:32] President Carter's announcement. The

[10:34] stock closed down 4 and 38 points.

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[11:43] >> The rest of Mr. Crowder's news

[11:44] conference ranged from foreign policy to

[11:47] monogamy. One topic given emphasis was a

[11:50] diplomatic flap earlier this week

[11:51] involving administration criticism of

[11:54] Israel's Middle East negotiating stance

[11:56] and the president tried today to patch

[11:58] things up. How Walker has the story.

[12:02] Anticipating a meeting here with

[12:04] Israel's new prime minister Manakiman

[12:06] next month. Mr. Carter said that he and

[12:08] his aids would not comment in detail on

[12:11] American support of Middle East peace

[12:13] efforts. I believe that it's been good

[12:17] during this year to have the discussions

[12:21] much more open to encourage the

[12:26] uh Arab nations and Israel to frankly

[12:29] understand some of the feelings that

[12:32] each of them has toward the other. And I

[12:35] still have high hopes that this year

[12:37] might lead toward peace, but it will

[12:40] never be with any sort of abandonment of

[12:43] our deep and permanent commitment to

[12:46] Israel. And I have made this clear in in

[12:50] specific terms to every Arab leader

[12:53] who's been to our country. On

[12:55] Sino-American relations, the president

[12:57] sidestepped the question of whether this

[12:58] country can normalize relations with

[13:00] China while keeping a defense commitment

[13:03] to Taiwan, saying only that he hopes to

[13:05] achieve full diplomatic relations with

[13:07] Ping and still make sure that the

[13:09] peaceful lives of the Taiwanese are

[13:11] maintained.

[13:12] >> On Middle East oil prices, Mr. Carter

[13:14] said they are too high, but he said he

[13:16] hoped for a price freeze through 1978.

[13:19] Mr. Mr. Carter was optimistic about a

[13:21] Panama Canal treaty, adamant on his

[13:23] human rights stand toward the Soviet

[13:24] Union, and explained his decision to pay

[13:27] $6,000 in taxes he didn't owe as

[13:30] symbolic of his belief that everyone in

[13:32] his income bracket should pay some tax.

[13:34] Then there was this question about

[13:36] morality.

[13:37] >> Panax newspapers have a tape recorded

[13:40] statement by Dr. Peter Bourne that even

[13:43] though your own relationship is

[13:45] monogamous, you never held anything

[13:47] against people in your organization who

[13:49] were involved promiscuously with other

[13:51] women. My question is, is Dr. Bourne

[13:53] right or wrong in this recorded

[13:55] statement?

[13:57] He's certainly right in part of it. My

[13:59] relationship

[14:02] my relationship is monogous, but I've

[14:04] never held it against people who had a

[14:07] different standard from myself. I've

[14:09] done everything I could. properly and

[14:11] legitimately to encourage my staff,

[14:14] members, families to be uh stable and I

[14:18] have also encouraged the same sort of

[14:20] thing in my cabinet. If there are some

[14:23] who've slipped from grace, then I can

[14:25] only say that I'll do the best I can to

[14:27] forgive them and pray for them.

[14:30] Hal Walker, CBS News, the White House.

[14:34] The background of this week's diplomatic

[14:36] flap with Israel from Marvin Calb.

[14:41] Indirectly, the president seemed to be

[14:42] admitting that Monday's policy statement

[14:44] was a blunder. Officials revealed that

[14:47] the statement was initiated by the

[14:49] president's own national security

[14:50] adviserss, Vignnev Brjinski, and that it

[14:53] was Brjinski who added the section most

[14:55] critical of Israeli leaders, namely the

[14:58] warning that the subject of Israeli

[15:00] withdrawal from the West Bank cannot be

[15:02] excluded from the negotiation. It's

[15:05] understood that Bjinsky wanted to aim

[15:07] his criticism directly at Prime Minister

[15:09] Bean and Foreign Minister Dian, but high

[15:12] state department officials objected and

[15:14] pencled out the names. The president

[15:16] himself did not read the statement until

[15:18] after it had been delivered. It created

[15:21] such controversy, most of it unexpected

[15:24] as well as counterproductive, that Mr.

[15:26] Carter decided to put the lid on all of

[15:28] his top deputies until Prime Minister

[15:30] Bee's visit here in 3 weeks. Marvin

[15:34] Calb, CBS News. The State Department.

[15:37] >> The UN Security Council by unanimous

[15:39] vote has endorsed a resolution urging

[15:41] member states to help Mosmb beek, which

[15:44] has come under increased border attacks

[15:45] from Rhodesia. The resolution called for

[15:48] material assistance, which a US diplomat

[15:50] said meant anything but troops. There

[15:53] were two reports today of military

[15:55] invasions in East Africa. Diplomats in

[15:57] Ethiopia said that hostile elements

[16:00] believed to be Sudin had occupied the

[16:02] Ethiopian town of Bea. And Kenya charged

[16:05] that 10,000 troops from Somalia had

[16:07] crossed into northern Kenya. Somalia

[16:10] denied that and speculated the invaders

[16:12] were from Ethiopia.

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[17:19] Reversing a Ford administration policy,

[17:21] Transportation Secretary Brock Adams

[17:24] today ordered that all new cars

[17:26] eventually be sold with airbags or some

[17:28] other so-called passive restraint.

[17:31] Nelson Benton has more on the story.

[17:34] >> Adam's ruling requires automatic crash

[17:36] protection for front seat occupants in

[17:38] all 1984 model passenger cars with the

[17:41] requirement to be phased in starting

[17:43] with 1982 models. The airbag, a

[17:46] balloon-like envelope that inflates at

[17:48] the instant of collision, is best known

[17:50] and the most thoroughly tested system.

[17:52] But a so-called passive seat belt

[17:54] available on some Volkswagen models also

[17:57] meets automatic protection criteria.

[18:00] Too many people have been needlessly

[18:03] killed or injured in crashes where

[18:06] passive restraints could have saved

[18:08] them. I simply cannot in good conscience

[18:12] be a party to any further delay.

[18:16] >> Adams estimates additional cost at $100

[18:18] to $300 per car. His schedule calls for

[18:21] automatic protection on standard and

[18:23] luxury size 82 models on midsize and

[18:26] compacts in the 83 model year and on

[18:29] subcompacts one year later.

[18:32] That means that Americans who are

[18:34] interested in buying smaller cars and

[18:36] fuel efficient cars and who don't have

[18:38] the money to buy larger cars don't get

[18:40] the protection from these federal safety

[18:42] standards that richer people get by the

[18:45] largest cars. What should it have been?

[18:47] >> It should have been a mandatory uh

[18:50] automatic safety system uh at the latest

[18:53] for all cars by 1981 models. Among the

[18:56] big three, Chrysler was most critical,

[18:58] calling for seat belt buckleup laws

[19:00] instead. General Motors was lukewarm.

[19:02] Ford did not comment immediately. By

[19:05] midafternoon, a resolution was

[19:06] introduced in Congress to upset Adam's

[19:08] ruling. Nelson Benton, CBS News,

[19:11] Washington. The House Ways and Means

[19:13] Committee today completed action on the

[19:15] tax portion of President Carter's energy

[19:17] plan. The bill gives him most of what he

[19:19] wanted, including attacks on gas

[19:21] guzzling cars, but not attacks on

[19:24] gasoline tax to encourage conservation.

[19:27] Chairman Alman called the bill, quote,

[19:29] "The first signal that Congress is dead

[19:31] serious about saving energy." The Carter

[19:34] Energy Plan envisions more use of coal

[19:36] and thus more mining of coal. A

[19:38] congressional conference committee today

[19:40] agreed on a compromise bill to force

[19:42] mining companies to restore land ravaged

[19:44] by strip mining. The Supreme Court is

[19:47] recessed for the summer not to return to

[19:49] work until October. Law correspondent

[19:51] Fred Graham looks back over the just

[19:53] completed term at the major rulings and

[19:56] the justices who made them.

[19:59] Richard Nixon has been gone from

[20:01] Washington for three years now, but his

[20:03] legacy remains at the Supreme Court,

[20:05] where the dominant force has become the

[20:07] conservatism of his four appointees.

[20:09] Chief Justice Warren Burer, who seeks to

[20:11] unburden the courts, but whose critics

[20:13] say he does it by trying to throw out

[20:15] the cases of environmentalists, consumer

[20:18] advocates, and civil libertarians.

[20:20] William Rinquist, the court's most

[20:21] conservative justice who chills liberals

[20:24] because he's also the youngest and one

[20:26] of the smartest. Lewis Powell, a

[20:28] southern aristocrat who approaches each

[20:30] case with a judiciously open mind and

[20:32] then usually takes the conservative

[20:34] position. and Harry Blackman once

[20:36] seemingly under Burger's conservative

[20:38] influence who has recently taken more

[20:40] unpredictable positions. With a Nixon

[20:43] four often voting in a block, a fifth

[20:45] vote could usually be found from one of

[20:47] the more middle-of the road justices,

[20:50] Potter Stewart, Byron White, or John

[20:52] Paul Stevens, who emerged as one of the

[20:54] most creative and independent figures on

[20:56] the court. That left the two liberal

[20:58] holdovers from the Warren era, William

[21:01] Brennan and Thood Marshall, usually

[21:03] teamed up in lonely descent. The result

[21:06] was that this term lower courts were

[21:08] repeatedly reversed for being too

[21:10] liberal for going too far. One dominant

[21:13] thread ran through the court's frequent

[21:15] refusals to rule for those who asserted

[21:17] individual rights. It was that courts

[21:20] should not decide sensitive social

[21:21] questions because as Justice Powell put

[21:24] it, the appropriate form in a democracy

[21:26] is the legislature. This was the court's

[21:29] message as it ruled that poor women do

[21:31] not have a constitutional right to

[21:33] abortions paid for by the state, that

[21:35] medical disability plans do not have to

[21:38] include maternity benefits, that severe

[21:40] paddling of public school students is

[21:42] not cruel and unusual punishment, that

[21:45] employees can be fired for refusing for

[21:47] religious reasons to work on Saturdays,

[21:50] and that union seniority agreements can

[21:52] be enforced even if they discriminate

[21:54] against blacks and Mexican-Americans.

[21:57] This has touched off a heated debate as

[21:59] to whether the court has abandoned its

[22:01] proper role.

[22:03] >> Many of the individual decisions are are

[22:05] troubling in themselves, but more

[22:06] troubling by far is this trend that is

[22:09] emerging of the Supreme Court's

[22:11] abdication of its constitutional role as

[22:14] a check on majority sentiment. This is

[22:16] basically a society that is run by

[22:18] democratic processes and the court is

[22:21] simply saying that the constitution does

[22:23] not remove these issues from the area of

[22:26] democratic government and that's why it

[22:29] is not for the court to do it. It is for

[22:32] legislators and executives who have been

[22:34] elected to decide yes or no as to those

[22:36] rights. Toward the end of the term, the

[22:39] court's familiar conservatism produced a

[22:41] series of clear signals for a slowdown

[22:43] in the busing of school children. And

[22:45] then, perhaps because judges of all

[22:47] persuasions dread to be involved in the

[22:50] taking of human life, the justices

[22:52] declare that executions will not be

[22:54] permitted for the crime of rape and by

[22:56] inference for no crime short of murder.

[22:59] Fred Graham, CBS News, at the Supreme

[23:02] Court. There's been no word on that girl

[23:05] kidnapped from a Florida scout camp

[23:06] since last night when she telephoned her

[23:08] parents to say she would be freed soon.

[23:10] Police are searching continuing the

[23:12] search, but one officer conceded that

[23:14] quote, "It's a waiting game now." The

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[23:26] climbed 12 cents on the New York

[23:27] exchange, 7 cents on the American.

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[24:35] >> the National Association for the Advance

[24:37] Advancement of Colored People, which has

[24:39] had a hand in many changes in American

[24:41] society, is undergoing a transition of

[24:43] its own. Renee Busant reports from St.

[24:46] Louis.

[24:52] After 22 years, this is Roy Wilkins last

[24:55] convention as head of the NAACP. Wilkins

[24:58] steps down amidst reports of an NAACP in

[25:01] trouble, plagued by internal power

[25:04] struggles and external attacks. At 75,

[25:07] Wilkins, a quiet, reserved man, says

[25:09] he's grown impatient with his

[25:11] countrymen's continuing conflicts over

[25:13] equal rights. It has taken them so long

[25:17] to make up their minds

[25:21] and uh

[25:24] I feel that uh

[25:28] we ought to hurry along with it and uh

[25:32] get it uh over with.

[25:35] >> Mr. Wilkins, I wish you hadn't done so

[25:37] well and it wouldn't be so hard for me

[25:40] to follow you.

[25:42] Wilkins successor is Benjamin Hooks, 52,

[25:45] an outspoken lawyer, federal

[25:47] communications commissioner, and

[25:49] minister. But

[25:50] >> I know, brother Roy, that you've seen

[25:52] THE LIGHTNING FLASH. YOU'VE HEARD THE

[25:54] THUNDER ROAR, AND YOU'VE FELT SINS

[25:56] BREAKERS DASHING, TRYING TO CONQUER YOUR

[25:59] SOUL, BUT YOU HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS

[26:02] TELLING YOU STILL TO FIGHT ON. AND HE

[26:04] PROMISED NEVER TO LEAVE YOU. NEVER LEAVE

[26:07] YOU ALONE.

[26:09] Hooks has his work cut out for him.

[26:11] NAACP membership has dropped to some

[26:14] 425,000,

[26:16] down by 100,000 since 1963. At the same

[26:20] time, convention delegates must come up

[26:22] with strategies to handle some major

[26:24] civil rights legislative setbacks and a

[26:26] steady resistance to desegregation in

[26:28] the north. Hook says he'll use the most

[26:31] effective tactics to turn things around,

[26:33] whether they fit the NAACP's so-called

[26:36] moderate image or not. I'm saying

[26:38] positively there will be plenty of

[26:40] action. So the people who are racist,

[26:43] the people who practice discrimination

[26:44] and segregation, the people who want to

[26:46] put black folk off in the corner better

[26:48] beware because we're on our way.

[26:49] >> Most of the delegates at this convention

[26:51] seem ready to go with Hooks. So far, the

[26:54] change in leadership is working as the

[26:56] orderly transition NAACP officials say

[26:58] they planned. Hook says the new NAACP

[27:02] must strengthen its involvement in

[27:04] southern Africa and perhaps loosen its

[27:06] ties with certain traditional domestic

[27:08] allies such as organized labor and the

[27:10] Democratic Party. NAACP officials say

[27:13] they no longer have time for fair

[27:15] weather friends. Renee Fusant, CBS News,

[27:18] St. Louis.

[27:19] >> And that's the way it is, Thursday, June

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