NBC Nightly News - 1984-04-10
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[0:00] Channel 4 News.
[0:05] >> Philadelphia at dusk on election day.
[0:08] The Pennsylvania primary with 172
[0:10] delegates up for grabs.
[0:18] >> This is NBC Nightly News reported by Tom
[0:22] Brokoff.
[0:24] >> Good evening from Philadelphia where the
[0:26] polls still are open in the Pennsylvania
[0:27] primary. However, based on interviews
[0:29] with voters leaving the polling places
[0:31] today, it does appear that Walter
[0:33] Montdale will do very well here. He may
[0:36] even win by a margin nearly as wide as
[0:38] his New York victory last week. All the
[0:41] indications are that Gary Hart is
[0:43] running second and Jesse Jackson a
[0:45] distant third. Again, Jackson is winning
[0:47] only a few white votes. But the most
[0:50] dramatic political story of the day was
[0:51] in Washington where the Reagan
[0:53] administration was forced to defend its
[0:54] Central American policy as a result of
[0:57] the controversy surrounding the placing
[0:59] of mines in Nicaraguan ports by the CIA.
[1:02] Senator Barry Goldwater wrote a
[1:04] blistering criticism of the way the
[1:06] situation was handled. President
[1:08] Reagan's spokesman was forced to issue a
[1:09] statement calling the debate about the
[1:11] mines shrill and confusing. The
[1:14] statement also said the administration
[1:16] has no plans to invade any Central
[1:18] American country. No plans for any
[1:21] military enterprise after the American
[1:23] elections this fall. At the same time,
[1:26] no more mines will be placed in those
[1:28] Nicaraguan ports with American
[1:30] assistance for now at least. We have two
[1:33] reports on the controversy tonight.
[1:35] Marvin Calb with the policy decisions.
[1:37] Bob Abernathy with a congressional
[1:39] reaction. First, calverial
[1:43] mine laying operation has been ended for
[1:46] the time being, but sources caution it
[1:48] could start again. One official
[1:50] explaining it was always intended to be
[1:53] of limited duration. The large CIA ship
[1:56] that has been supervising the operation
[1:58] has reportedly left the scene, but the
[2:00] mines that have not yet exploded are
[2:03] still in Nicaraguan ports hampering
[2:05] international shipping in and out. In a
[2:08] clear effort to shift the popular focus
[2:10] from the mining to the Marxists,
[2:12] officials now claim that the rebel
[2:14] forces in El Salvador are benefiting
[2:16] from what one called a continuing and
[2:19] substantial flow of military supplies
[2:21] from Nicaragua. A prelude apparently to
[2:23] a new rebel offensive perhaps by
[2:25] September to exploit the pressures of a
[2:28] presidential campaign.
[2:29] >> There may well be some plans on their
[2:31] part to respond militarily. Officials
[2:34] say it was Secretary of State Schultz
[2:36] who recommended to the White House that
[2:37] the US declare in advance that the World
[2:40] Court has no jurisdiction over the
[2:42] mining of Nicaraguan ports. A policy
[2:44] that has clearly backfired. The US has
[2:47] no international support even from its
[2:49] closest allies. And an aroused Congress
[2:52] may now cut off funds for all covert
[2:55] operations against Nicaragua. Officials
[2:57] are embarrassed and defensive about the
[2:59] mining and the world court decisions,
[3:01] aware that once again there is an
[3:03] impression that the administration
[3:04] cannot run an effective foreign policy.
[3:07] Marvin Calb, NBC News, the State
[3:09] Department.
[3:11] Congress is in revolt over the CIA's
[3:14] mining of Nicaraguan harbors. Members
[3:16] describe the mood as angry and
[3:18] incredulous. Senator Barry Goldwater,
[3:20] chairman of the Senate Intelligence
[3:22] Committee, sent a blistering letter to
[3:23] CIA Director William Casey, calling the
[3:26] mining an act violating international
[3:28] law. It is an act of war. For the life
[3:32] of me, I don't see how we're going to
[3:34] explain it. Other senators equally
[3:36] angry.
[3:37] >> Obviously, we're in violation of
[3:40] international law. The administration
[3:42] just can't blunder into one stupid
[3:44] mistake after another in foreign policy
[3:47] without realizing that some point the
[3:49] Congress is going to find the courage to
[3:51] stop them. CIA Director Casey spent the
[3:54] afternoon trying to reassure senators
[3:56] about the mining, but he was said to
[3:58] have been unconvincing. Meanwhile, in
[4:00] the House, more outrage. Whether Ronald
[4:04] Reagan is capable of of accepting it or
[4:06] not, state sponsored terrorism is as
[4:09] reprehensible whether committed by us or
[4:13] by the Russians. And I urge the House to
[4:16] stand by its convictions and reject any
[4:19] funds for a policy that is branding this
[4:21] nation as an international outlaw. I am
[4:24] appalled and ashamed of our cowardly
[4:26] behavior, waging a secret war,
[4:28] endangering lives at sea, refusing to
[4:31] stand up to world scrutiny.
[4:33] >> Last week, President Reagan asked
[4:34] Congress not to criticize his foreign
[4:36] policy once it was in effect. The
[4:38] reaction here to the Nicaraguan mining
[4:40] suggests no chance, if there ever was
[4:42] one, that the president will get his
[4:43] wish. Bob Aberthy, NBC News at the US
[4:46] capital.
[4:48] >> The mining was damaging in other ways as
[4:50] well. Seven ships, including Dutch,
[4:52] Soviet, and Japanese vessels, have been
[4:54] damaged in the last two months. It was
[4:56] damaging in other ways in that part of
[4:58] the world. Mike Bcher tonight tells us
[5:00] how. From Managua,
[5:02] >> explosive mines remain just below the
[5:04] surface of Nicaragua's port of Corinto.
[5:07] Nicaraguan officials say that during the
[5:08] time freighers have been risking being
[5:10] hit by mines in their harbors, their
[5:12] country's economy, which was already
[5:14] unhealthy, became even sicker. Just how
[5:16] sick can be seen at the local grocery
[5:18] store. A line formed in front of the
[5:20] meat counter. The shoppers would get
[5:22] their ration of meat, but they would
[5:23] have to wait to buy chicken. There was
[5:26] plenty of Bulgarian china, but no toilet
[5:28] paper or toothpaste. Bottles of beer
[5:31] filled the shelves, but there was no
[5:32] baby formula.
[5:35] Shopping is frustrating in Nicaragua,
[5:37] but there were shortages before the
[5:38] harbors were mined ever since the US
[5:40] imposed economic boycott. One Nicaraguan
[5:43] woman blames it on the economic policies
[5:45] of the Marxist Sandinista government.
[5:46] People in here has more poverty than
[5:49] before. We're just worse than samosa
[5:51] now.
[5:52] >> This woman went to eightarmacies before
[5:54] she could find the medicine she needed
[5:56] for her mother. One of the drugs she
[5:58] visited called the mining operation and
[6:00] President Reagan inhumane.
[6:02] >> 33 freighers were scheduled to dock at
[6:04] Nicaraguan ports in March. 25 dead.
[6:07] Eight others stayed away at the height
[6:09] of the CIA supported mining operation.
[6:12] Nicaraguan officials say those ships
[6:13] were bringing machinery, powdered milk,
[6:15] and spare parts. Exports that could have
[6:18] brought badly needed dollars to
[6:19] Nicaragua's economy piled up on the dock
[6:22] because the ships to haul it never
[6:24] arrived. The mines didn't shut down
[6:25] Nicaragua's ports, but they were the
[6:27] most publicized part of the CIA
[6:29] sponsored anti-government rebels
[6:30] campaign to isolate Nicaragua's economy.
[6:33] Mike Bcher, NBC News, Managa, Nicaragua.
[6:37] At the same time in Washington, the
[6:38] Pentagon today put out a new catalog on
[6:41] the status and the aims of the Soviet
[6:42] military. It documents a weapons boom,
[6:45] including new medium and long-range
[6:47] Soviet nuclear missiles, strategic
[6:49] bombers, and a new submarine that can
[6:51] launch the longrange missiles. The
[6:53] Pentagon says that the test lasers on
[6:55] the ground could become anti satellite
[6:58] weapons for the Russians by the end of
[6:59] the decade. Defense Secretary Weinberger
[7:02] said the Soviet advances justify a
[7:05] continued military buildup by the United
[7:07] States.
[7:12] Coming up, Robert Biselle at the Johnson
[7:14] Space Center as Challenger grabs Solar
[7:16] Max. John Chancellor in Philadelphia on
[7:19] the how and why of the Pennsylvania
[7:20] vote. And David Hazinski in Tennessee on
[7:24] the second Fort Pillar escape in recent
[7:26] weeks.
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[8:59] >> The fact that Walter Montdale appears to
[9:01] be doing well here in the Pennsylvania
[9:02] primary is no real surprise. This is a
[9:05] state particularly well suited to his
[9:07] campaign. And as NBC's chief political
[9:10] correspondent, Roger Mud reports
[9:11] tonight, Manddale stayed with his main
[9:14] themes right to the final day.
[9:17] >> Pennsylvania may call itself the
[9:18] keystone state, but to the three
[9:20] Democratic presidential candidates, this
[9:22] is the breadand butter state. All this
[9:25] week, their talk has been about jobs,
[9:27] not the nuclear freeze. About contracts
[9:29] and benefits, not about moving the US
[9:31] embassy in Israel. About layoffs and
[9:34] closed plants, not about school prayer.
[9:37] It was no accident. One of every nine
[9:40] workers in Pennsylvania has no job. And
[9:42] the growth rate the last 10 years here
[9:44] has been 1%, not the 11% of nationwide.
[9:48] Today, on this last day of the primary,
[9:50] Manddale was still talking jobs. Unless
[9:52] people have jobs, unless uh they've got
[9:56] a president who worries about such
[9:58] things as job safety, decent
[10:00] retirements, and so on, the whole thing
[10:02] falls apart.
[10:03] >> Montdale toured a high fashion clothes
[10:05] factory today looking for votes, but
[10:07] found many of the employees from
[10:08] Portugal. Montdale himself was wearing
[10:11] what his staff calls his full Norwegian
[10:13] white shirt, straight collar, gray
[10:15] pinstriped suit, dark tie. He seemed in
[10:18] particularly high spirits today. He was
[10:21] counting on the help of some of the
[10:22] country's most aggressive unions and the
[10:24] newly elected black mayor of
[10:25] Philadelphia, Wilson Good. Jesse Jackson
[10:28] put in a full day in Philadelphia today.
[10:31] First at a prosperous black Baptist
[10:33] church.
[10:33] >> I can be judge.
[10:34] >> I can be judge.
[10:35] >> I can be governor.
[10:36] >> I can be governor.
[10:37] >> I can be president.
[10:38] >> I can be.
[10:39] >> I can do what I want to do.
[10:40] >> And then a walk through the
[10:42] neighborhood.
[10:43] >> 43% of Philadelphia's Democratic vote is
[10:45] black. Even though Jackson's campaign
[10:48] mistakes would have probably eliminated
[10:49] a white candidate, he has already
[10:52] emerged as a major power to be reckoned
[10:54] with at the Democratic convention. Gary
[10:56] Hart, shaking hands in Philadelphia's
[10:58] subway today, said he had come into
[11:00] Pennsylvania behind Montdale and was
[11:02] trying to close the gap. A week ago, he
[11:05] predicted he would do well here. Hart
[11:07] knows that Pennsylvania is not noted for
[11:09] its yepy population, the young
[11:11] professionals. So, he campaigned as the
[11:13] one who could most easily defeat Reagan,
[11:15] and as the one whose long range plans to
[11:18] revitalize industry were superior to
[11:20] Montdale's short-term one. Gary Hart
[11:22] left town today knowing that a defeat in
[11:24] Pennsylvania would be a major blow to
[11:27] his candidacy. Knowing that he had not
[11:29] solved the problems that plagued him in
[11:31] New York. Knowing that his contributors
[11:34] and his volunteers would now lose their
[11:36] enthusiasm. And knowing that he would
[11:38] not have another chance to win in a big
[11:40] state for almost a month in Texas. Roger
[11:43] Mud, NBC News, Philadelphia. And NBC's
[11:47] Jimmy Gangel reports tonight that Jesse
[11:49] Jackson is now planning a convention of
[11:51] what he calls his rainbow coalition,
[11:53] probably in Washington sometime in June.
[11:56] That would be a month before the regular
[11:57] Democratic convention in San Francisco.
[12:06] Coming up, Kenley Jones on a train wreck
[12:08] and evacuation in North Carolina.
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[12:43] Mom, he's putting A1's steak sauce on
[12:45] his hamburger.
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[13:13] Los Angeles, California, first place.
[13:15] >> Winner is Shabli number three.
[13:18] >> Sacramento, California. Silver Award.
[13:20] Year after year, wine tastings are held
[13:22] across the country.
[13:23] >> Chicago, Illinois, gold medal.
[13:25] >> And year after year, one wine continues
[13:27] to appear at the top of the list.
[13:29] >> Warwick, Rhode Island, first place.
[13:31] >> The white wine judged best in tasting
[13:33] after tasting.
[13:34] >> Washington DC, first place.
[13:36] >> The Shabli Blanc of Ernest and Julio
[13:38] Gallow. from Ernest and Julio Gallo. All
[13:42] the best.
[13:44] >> The crew of the shuttle Challenger
[13:46] pulled off a space spectacular today,
[13:48] plucking a broken satellite out of the
[13:50] sky while racing along at 17,000 m an
[13:53] hour. The satellite, which is called the
[13:55] Solar Max, was hauled into the shuttle's
[13:57] cargo bay, where two astronauts will try
[14:00] to repair it tomorrow. Robert Bazelle
[14:02] tonight with pictures of this amazing
[14:04] achievement.
[14:06] The Solar Max satellite first appeared
[14:08] as a glowing disc reflecting the sun as
[14:10] the shuttle moved toward it. The
[14:12] maneuver had to be precise. Challenger
[14:15] was low on fuel and the astronauts had
[14:17] only one chance to retrieve it with the
[14:19] robot arm. Mission controllers waited
[14:22] anxiously as the astronauts attempted
[14:24] the capture while the spaceship was out
[14:26] of voice and TV communication. First
[14:29] word came from Commander Robert Krippen
[14:31] through a tracking station in Australia.
[14:34] Challenger Houston standing by through
[14:35] Jaredy.
[14:37] >> Okay, we've got it and we're in the
[14:39] process of putting in the antenna.
[14:42] >> Outstanding.
[14:45] >> After capturing the satellite, Terry
[14:47] Hart at the controls of the robot arm,
[14:49] lowered it into the cradle of the
[14:51] shuttle's cargo bay. It was then latched
[14:54] in and rotated into the proper position
[14:57] for the repairs, which will be attempted
[14:59] tomorrow. An elated group of astronauts
[15:02] received a call from President Reagan.
[15:04] >> If you can't fix it up there, would you
[15:07] mind bringing it back?
[15:10] >> Well, we uh we're going to do our best
[15:12] to repair it tomorrow, sir. And if for
[15:15] some reason that is unsuccessful, which
[15:17] we don't think it will be, we will be
[15:19] able to return it.
[15:20] >> The repair effort will be carried out in
[15:21] the cargo bay tomorrow by James Vanha
[15:24] and George Nelson. The men will be in
[15:26] space suits and they will use a set of
[15:28] special tools to replace the defective
[15:30] electronic components of the SolarMax
[15:32] satellite. If the repairs are
[15:34] successful, the astronauts will use the
[15:36] robot arm to lift the satellite out of
[15:38] the cargo bay and let it go back into
[15:40] free orbit. Solar will then resume its
[15:43] observations of the sun, and NASA,
[15:45] despite the difficulties, will have
[15:47] demonstrated the potential for repairs
[15:49] in space. Robert Bazelle, NBC News at
[15:52] the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
[15:55] Two railroad tanker cars ruptured today,
[15:57] sending fire and fear through the North
[15:59] Carolina town of Marchville. And
[16:01] tonight, the town's 2,000 residents are
[16:04] sleeping elsewhere. The tanker cars were
[16:06] part of a freight train that derailed.
[16:08] Both are filled with highly explosive
[16:10] methanol, and they could burn for days.
[16:12] Kennley Jones reports from Marshville
[16:14] tonight.
[16:16] The small town of Marshville was jolted
[16:19] from its daily routine this morning by
[16:20] the grinding crash of freight cars in
[16:22] the middle of town. At least 13 cars of
[16:25] a 73 car Seabard coastline freight had
[16:28] jumped the tracks. Four of the cars
[16:31] carried highly poisonous and highly
[16:33] inflammable methanol. Because of the
[16:35] threat of an explosion, fire officials
[16:38] immediately ordered the town evacuated.
[16:40] Students at two schools, as well as the
[16:42] rest of the town's 2100 residents, were
[16:45] taken to evacuation centers in outlying
[16:47] areas where they will spend the night.
[16:49] Because of the danger of explosion and
[16:51] the danger of toxic fumes in the area,
[16:54] fire officials have decided not to fight
[16:56] the fire, but instead let it burn itself
[16:58] out.
[16:59] >> It's It's going to run on into a great
[17:01] deal of time. Like I say, we really
[17:02] don't know how long it's going to take.
[17:04] It's just going to be have to be played
[17:05] minute by minute.
[17:06] >> There have been no injuries reported
[17:08] either to firefighters or residents as a
[17:11] result of the fire. Railroad officials
[17:13] say the cause of the derailment may have
[17:15] been a broken wheel on a wood pulp car
[17:17] which caused it and the other cars to
[17:19] overturn. Kenley Jones, NBC News,
[17:22] Marshville, North Carolina.
[17:24] Working women are getting ahead and
[17:26] catching up. According to new figures
[17:28] from the Census Bureau, the biggest
[17:30] gains are in managerial type positions.
[17:32] Women held 19% of those kinds of jobs in
[17:35] 1970. It was up to 31% by 1980. The
[17:39] number of female doctors doubled in that
[17:41] same time. The number of women lawyers
[17:43] quadrupled. Some stereotypes still
[17:45] exist. However, among secretaries, 99%
[17:49] still are women. And other studies
[17:51] recently show that working women still
[17:53] are earning about a third less than men
[17:55] performing the same jobs.
[18:03] Coming up, Henry Champ on a jarring
[18:05] protest at a French military funeral.
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[19:42] >> Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander
[19:44] infuriated by the second big escape from
[19:46] the Fort Pillow Prison in less than two
[19:48] months. Today called it all inexcusable.
[19:51] He ordered the Tennessee National Guard
[19:52] to join the search for three prisoners
[19:54] still at large. The guard armed with M16
[19:57] rifles was told to check everything that
[19:59] creeps, crawls, or moves. Orders that
[20:01] David Hazinski tells us tonight brought
[20:03] some results.
[20:05] >> Police captured two of the escaped
[20:07] convicts this afternoon along railroad
[20:09] tracks less than 5 miles from Fort
[20:11] Pillow State Prison. A third escape had
[20:13] been captured earlier. The search
[20:15] continues for Gary Sanders, who is
[20:17] serving a life term for murder.
[20:20] For the second time in two months,
[20:22] officers are searching cars and homes
[20:23] for Ford Pillow escapes. This time
[20:26] assisted by National Guard troops called
[20:28] out by an angry Governor Lamar
[20:30] Alexander, who says guards aren't doing
[20:32] their job.
[20:33] >> If you double the number of armed guards
[20:35] and and they escape by hiding in a
[20:37] culvert, uh, you don't seem to have a
[20:39] shortage of guards. You seem to have
[20:40] guards who may not be looking.
[20:42] >> The four convicts, all serving long
[20:44] term, slipped away from a work detail
[20:46] that was cutting grass outside the
[20:47] medium security prison yesterday. In
[20:50] February, five convicts dug up hidden
[20:52] guns and also escaped from a work
[20:53] detail. Before they were captured or
[20:55] killed, two people died and a highway
[20:57] patrolman was wounded. In Brownsville,
[21:00] where a businessman was killed,
[21:01] residents are afraid again and angry.
[21:04] >> And everybody at work just they just
[21:06] kept saying, "Oh no, not again."
[21:08] >> The governor has put the highway patrol
[21:10] instead of the state corrections
[21:11] department in charge of the new search.
[21:14] State legislators say it's obvious that
[21:16] security is lax at Fort Pillow State
[21:18] Prison. They want the last escapee
[21:20] caught soon and major reforms in prison
[21:22] security. David Hazinski, NBC News,
[21:25] Memphis.
[21:27] The United States Navy man and his wife
[21:29] who decided to try for a test tube baby
[21:31] instead ended up with three of them.
[21:34] Test tube triplets or tublets for short.
[21:36] They were delivered last Friday in the
[21:38] San Diego Naval Hospital. Today, the
[21:40] rest of the world got to see the result
[21:42] of this modern medical miracle. The two
[21:44] girls and a boy born to Deborah Styles
[21:46] los were premature. They weighed from 2
[21:49] lb 10 oz up to 3 lb 6. They're all in
[21:52] stable condition, however, with some
[21:54] health problems common to premature
[21:56] babies.
[21:59] There was a military funeral in Tuloo,
[22:01] France today for nine paratroopers who
[22:03] died in the African nation of Chad. So
[22:06] upset was the brother of one of them
[22:07] that he lost control of his emotions and
[22:09] he drove a car as a minister of defense.
[22:12] Henry Champ narrates our report tonight
[22:14] from London.
[22:16] Defense Minister Charlene in the dark
[22:18] suit and accompanied by his top generals
[22:20] was attending the return of the nine
[22:22] dead soldiers. Their death on Saturday
[22:24] generated a great deal of controversy in
[22:27] France. The defense department never
[22:29] clearly explaining what happened,
[22:31] issuing three different versions, the
[22:33] most consistent saying the men died in a
[22:35] mine clearing operation. Those opposing
[22:38] the French presence in its former
[22:40] African colony have seized on the event
[22:42] demanding the army get out of Chad. Her
[22:46] new was presenting medals awarded
[22:48] postuously when the brother of one of
[22:50] the dead soldiers raced his car around
[22:53] the square before apparently aiming it
[22:55] at the minister. Security guards opened
[22:57] fire. The driver was hit in the groin.
[23:00] The car veered through a line of
[23:02] coffins, striking one before coming to a
[23:04] halt. No one in the crowd was hurt.
[23:07] Family spokesman say the brother, Lonel
[23:09] Rayal, was both griefstricken and
[23:11] furious at the lack of government
[23:13] explanation.
[23:15] The family had only just received
[23:17] pictures and a letter from the young
[23:18] soldier. Tonight, they mourn him and
[23:21] pray for Lonel's recovery. His condition
[23:24] is listed as serious. Henry Champ, NBC
[23:28] News, London.
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[25:23] John Chancellor is with me now. He's
[25:24] been looking at the results of our
[25:26] survey of Pennsylvania voters as they
[25:27] left the polls today. And John, I gather
[25:29] that Walder Manddale is running pretty
[25:30] strongly just about everywhere in the
[25:31] state.
[25:32] >> He is. He's doing quite well. He's doing
[25:34] getting more support from people who say
[25:36] that they live in union households than
[25:37] he's had in other industrial states.
[25:39] He's holding his basic support groups,
[25:42] that is older voters and people who
[25:44] describe themselves as strong Democrats.
[25:46] The interesting part of the figures
[25:48] we've seen so far is that Montdale is
[25:50] making inroads into Gary Hart's basic
[25:52] constituency. Manddale is doing well,
[25:55] for example, among young voters, among
[25:57] affluent Democrats, among people in
[25:59] managerial and professional jobs. Now,
[26:01] in New York last week, Manddale did
[26:04] better than Hart among the professionals
[26:06] and with young voters. That pattern from
[26:08] our figures now seems to be repeating
[26:10] itself in Pennsylvania. Hart lost the
[26:12] voters who call themselves independents
[26:14] in New York. he could lose them here.
[26:16] So, it seems to me that the the lead, as
[26:19] we say in journalism, is that so far in
[26:21] our poll figures, Manddale is holding or
[26:23] expanding his basic support and that
[26:26] Gary Hart seems to be losing his grip on
[26:28] groups of voters who which have
[26:30] supported him in other states. It's hard
[26:32] to say why Hart is losing some of his
[26:34] supporters, but his campaign in
[26:36] Pennsylvania wasn't as well organized as
[26:38] Montdale's. Hart has not been able to
[26:40] make himself as clear on the issues as
[26:43] he would have liked, according to our
[26:44] figures, and that's showing up. Hart's
[26:47] problem may be one of identification.
[26:49] Our figures show that Jesse Jackson is
[26:51] doing well with black voters, although
[26:53] perhaps not as well as he did in New
[26:55] York last week, but is still getting
[26:57] very little white support. And
[26:59] incidentally, Tom, as you will know, but
[27:01] I will remind our viewers that
[27:03] Pennsylvania doesn't necessarily decide
[27:05] presidential elections. When we were
[27:07] here four years ago, the winners were
[27:09] Teddy Kennedy and George Bush.
[27:11] >> That's right. By just a handful of
[27:12] votes. And that's when Carter thought
[27:13] that he could stop Teddy Kennedy. But
[27:15] the the interesting thing is that
[27:16] Montdale is not only capitalizing on the
[27:18] muscle that he's already had, but he's
[27:20] beginning to add to that in these last
[27:21] two primaries.
[27:22] >> He's expanding it a little bit. No
[27:23] surprise that Walter Montdale won in
[27:25] Pennsylvania. All
[27:26] >> right. No, it's a big unionized state.
[27:28] It's the what? Third most
[27:30] in the country. And of course, that was
[27:31] a part of the ball work of his support.
[27:33] Look, we're going to have a lot more on
[27:34] all of us tonight. Uh, at 11:30, 10:30
[27:37] Central time, NBC will have one of its
[27:39] by now standard reports from the site of
[27:42] these primaries. I'll be here. John will
[27:43] be here. We'll be talking with the
[27:44] candidates as well. We'll have more
[27:46] details on the results of the
[27:48] Pennsylvania primary as they became
[27:49] available to us throughout the evening
[27:51] on this NBC station. So, for now, I'm
[27:53] Tom Bro, NBC News in Philadelphia, but
[27:56] I'll see you later.
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[28:48] Coming up in just a minute on the scene
[28:49] at 6, two Fort Pillow prison escapes are
[28:52] captured as they try to hop a freight
[28:53] train.