CBS Evening News - 1980-01-10

Name: CBS Evening News - 1980-01-10
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[0:04] This is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:07] Kronite.

[0:08] >> Good evening. President Carter's on

[0:10] record as saying the United States would

[0:12] prefer not to withdraw from the Moscow

[0:14] Olympic Games, but he left open that

[0:17] possibility. Now, with the dual crisis

[0:19] in Iran and Afghanistan seemingly no

[0:21] closer to resolution, the administration

[0:24] is talking about withdrawing the games

[0:26] themselves from Moscow. Robert Peer

[0:28] Point reports.

[0:30] The president appeared in the East Room

[0:31] to unveil a $2 billion expansion of his

[0:34] program for educating disadvantaged

[0:36] youths in job skills. But the serious

[0:38] challenges facing the Carter

[0:40] administration from abroad were much on

[0:42] his mind.

[0:44] >> We are outraged when we see our own

[0:47] citizens kidnapped and abused in Iran.

[0:52] And we are also outraged when we see in

[0:54] Afghanistan the independence of that

[0:57] nation and the freedom of their people

[1:00] destroyed.

[1:01] I'm convinced that our nation and those

[1:03] who stand with us will prevail in this

[1:06] time of testing because we collectively

[1:09] are strong and because we collectively

[1:12] are right.

[1:14] In retaliation for that Soviet action,

[1:16] the Carter administration is showing

[1:18] increasing interest in switching the

[1:19] site of this year's Olympic Games away

[1:22] from Moscow. Today in Iowa, Vice

[1:24] President Montdale openly supported that

[1:26] idea.

[1:27] >> It is my personal belief that the

[1:30] Olympics ought to be uh held somewhere

[1:32] else. uh perhaps in Montreal where the

[1:36] facilities are there and Munich where

[1:38] they have facilities but not in a

[1:40] setting where we in effect are uh

[1:44] granting legitimacy

[1:46] uh to a