World News Tonight (ABC) - 1980-01-07
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[0:00] TV2
[0:05] >> from ABC. This [music] is World News
[0:07] Tonight with Peter Jennings in Thran,
[0:10] Tom Gerald in Chicago, [music]
[0:12] and from our desk in Washington, Frank
[0:14] Reynolds.
[0:15] >> Good evening. Max Robinson is on
[0:16] vacation tonight. Day 65 of captivity
[0:19] for American hostages in Iran. And it
[0:22] had been hoped that today the United
[0:23] Nations Security Council would deal with
[0:25] the United States demand for economic
[0:27] sanctions against Iran. However, the
[0:30] Security Council has spent the last 3
[0:32] days debating or denouncing the Soviet
[0:34] invasion of Afghanistan. Late this
[0:37] afternoon, the council finally voted and
[0:38] the Russians, as expected, vetoed the
[0:41] resolution. Here's a report from UN
[0:43] correspondent Lou Chaffy.
[0:46] The last time there was a Soviet veto
[0:47] was almost a year ago on the question of
[0:49] the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
[0:51] This time, it's a Soviet Union itself
[0:54] being accused of invading Afghanistan,
[0:56] and a veto was never in question. The
[0:59] third day of debate was like the first.
[1:01] The communist world supporting Moscow's
[1:03] argument that the military intervention
[1:04] was normal and part of a mutual defense
[1:07] treaty between the two countries.
[1:09] However, the Western nations joined by
[1:11] many of the so-called third world
[1:13] countries bitterly attacked the Soviet
[1:15] action, calling it blatant aggression
[1:17] and demanding that Soviet forces
[1:19] withdraw from Afghanistan immediately.
[1:22] Despite efforts by the five non-aligned
[1:24] sponsors of the resolution to tone down
[1:26] the language, even avoiding mentioning
[1:28] the Soviet Union by name, the Soviet
[1:30] ambassador left n