CBS Evening News - 1977-09-26

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[0:00] Asheville.

[0:03] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:06] Kronite.

[0:07] >> Good evening. With the Senate chopping

[0:09] his energy plan into pieces, President

[0:12] Carter went over the head of Congress

[0:13] today and took the fight to save it to

[0:16] the people. The president made an

[0:17] unscheduled late afternoon appearance

[0:19] before White House reporters, Ed Bradley

[0:21] among them.

[0:25] His

[0:28] speech was brief and so was his message.

[0:31] At a meeting of the World Bank and the

[0:32] International Monetary Fund, President

[0:34] Carter said it is critical that Congress

[0:36] enact a strong energy package. Later at

[0:39] the White House, the president sharpened

[0:40] his message, praising the House for

[0:42] resisting oil industry pressure and

[0:44] calling on the Senate to do the same.

[0:46] Mr. Carter said deregulation of natural

[0:48] gas would cost consumers $10 billion by

[0:51] 1985. and he said there comes a time

[0:53] when we must ask how much is enough.

[0:57] >> Our proposed price under this plan would

[0:59] give producers strong incentives to

[1:02] explore and to develop new supplies of

[1:04] natural gas through a price which will

[1:08] be six times higher than the price was 5

[1:11] years ago.

[1:13] That is enough. It's time for the public

[1:16] interest to prevail over special

[1:19] interest lobbyists.

[1:21] And I call on the Senate to act

[1:23] responsibly in the interest of the great

[1:26] majority of Americans to reject narrow

[1:28] special interest attacks on all segments

[1:31] of the National Energy Plan. The

[1:34] president was careful to praise Senate

[1:35] Majority Leader Robert Bird and to

[1:37] express confidence in the Senate's final

[1:39] decision, but this message was also a

[1:41] warning that he will go over their heads

[1:42] to the public in an effort to defeat

[1:44] what he called the narrow special

[1:46] interests of the oil industry. Ed

[1:48] Bradley, CBS News, the White House. The

[1:51] Senate's floor fight over natural gas

[1:53] price controls triggered Mr. Carter's

[1:55] decision to go public for his energy

[1:57] plan. But gas prices are only part of

[2:00] the problem the bill has run into. More

[2:02] from Nelson Benton.

[2:06] Energy legislation passed by the House

[2:08] was not exactly the moral equivalent of

[2:10] war that the president called for last

[2:11] April, but it was much closer to what he

[2:14] asked than what the Senate is doing to

[2:16] his energy plan. The newest setback was

[2:19] today's rejection of the Carter crude

[2:20] oil tax by the Senate Finance Committee.

[2:23] That tax could be revived with more of

[2:25] its revenue going to increased energy

[2:27] production less to consumers and

[2:29] rebates. The rest of the scorecard so

[2:32] far, a proposed increase in gasoline

[2:35] taxes to discourage consumption killed

[2:37] by the House, not even discussed in the

[2:40] Senate. the gas guzzler tax on

[2:42] inefficient new cars approved after

[2:45] modifications in the House rejected by

[2:47] the Senate Finance Committee. The full

[2:49] Senate, however, voted a ban on building

[2:52] 1980 model cars that get less than 16 m

[2:55] per gallon with a standard increasing

[2:58] each year. The standards in that bill

[3:00] are lower, though, than those set in the

[3:03] gas guzzler tax. The House approved

[3:06] measures to force industrial conversion

[3:08] to coal. The Senate weakened that

[3:10] somewhat. It has not acted on tax

[3:12] measures to make oil and natural gas

[3:14] consumption unattractive to industry.

[3:17] The House voted to continue federal

[3:19] regulation of natural gas prices. The

[3:22] Senate is still tied in knots over that

[3:24] issue, but appears likely to approve

[3:26] higher prices than those proposed by the

[3:29] president, even under continued

[3:31] regulation. The House approved the

[3:33] Carter plan to spread more evenly

[3:35] consumer and industrial costs for

[3:37] electricity. That plan was rejected in

[3:40] the Senate Energy Committee. Mr.

[3:42] Carter's plan to give tax credits for

[3:44] improved home insulation and for the

[3:46] addition of solar heating and cooling

[3:48] equipment is still intact, approved by

[3:51] the House and the Senate Finance

[3:53] Committee. Delaware Republican William

[3:55] Roth has been a consistent critic on the

[3:58] finance committee. Well, I think the

[4:00] real problem with this uh president's

[4:02] proposal is that it's not an energy

[4:04] program. It's a tax increase. And I

[4:08] think that's what's got people uptight.

[4:10] We are making some selective changes,

[4:13] but the fundamental thrust of the

[4:15] president's program uh is there and will

[4:19] be there when it goes to the pre to the

[4:21] uh president for signature. The nation's

[4:24] first energy secretary and architect of

[4:27] the energy plan is not dismayed.

[4:29] >> At this stage, we have not made as much

[4:32] progress as we would like. But uh the

[4:36] demise of the national energy plan has

[4:39] been predicted before. Indeed, it has

[4:42] been reported before, but it has not yet

[4:44] occurred. I do not expect it to occur.

[4:47] House Majority Leader Jim Wright was

[4:49] asked about the possibility of Congress

[4:51] agreeing on the moral equivalent of war

[4:53] in energy policy. Wright thought for a

[4:56] moment and replied, "Cole war perhaps."

[4:59] Nelson Denton, CBS News, Washington.

[5:02] >> The Senate voted 77 to 17 today to shut

[5:06] off a filibuster and limit debate on gas

[5:08] price controls, but a vote on the

[5:10] controls themselves is not expected

[5:11] until later in the week. The nation's

[5:14] growing imports of foreign oil have been

[5:16] blamed for this year's mounting deficit

[5:18] in the balance of trade. But last month,

[5:20] oil imports declined and still the

[5:23] deficit swelled by a near record $2.7

[5:26] billion. The culprit this time was a

[5:28] sharp drop in American exports.

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[6:37] Fighting in southern Lebanon, which

[6:38] escalated in the past week with active

[6:40] Israeli intervention, died down today as

[6:42] a shaky ceasefire between right-wing

[6:45] Christians and leftist Palestinians took

[6:47] hold. Here's Bob Simon with the report

[6:49] that cleared Israeli censorship.

[6:54] There was little joy at the border this

[6:56] morning as Israeli armor began

[6:58] thundering back from Lebanon into

[6:59] Israel. Israeli officers and their

[7:02] Christian comrades in arms were

[7:04] skeptical that the ceasefire would hold,

[7:06] afraid that the Christians would now be

[7:08] overwhelmed by Palestinians, resentful

[7:10] of the United States for engineering a

[7:12] ceasefire, which leaves Christian and

[7:15] Israeli towns more vulnerable to

[7:17] Palestinian attacks. These are the tanks

[7:20] and armored personnel carriers which

[7:22] Israel never admitted had been operating

[7:24] in Lebanon. It appears now that they did

[7:27] not have a very active combat role, that

[7:30] their mission was to protect the women

[7:32] and children in Christian villages while

[7:34] their men were fighting the

[7:35] Palestinians.

[7:37] The terms of the ceasefire agreed to by

[7:40] Israel, Syria, and the Lebanese

[7:41] government stipulate that Palestinian

[7:44] forces will withdraw at least 6 miles

[7:46] from the Israeli border, that the

[7:48] Lebanese army will take control of the

[7:50] zone, that the good fence policy

[7:52] allowing Lebanese to move in and out of

[7:54] Israel will continue, that the Israeli

[7:56] forces will withdraw. There was an

[7:59] emotional farewell between an Israeli

[8:01] officer and the commander of the

[8:03] Lebanese Christians, Major Hadad.

[8:06] I salute to you to deliver.

[8:11] >> Thanks for your help.

[8:18] >> But while this was happening, minutes

[8:20] before the ceasefire was to go into

[8:22] effect, Soviet made Kusha rockets

[8:24] slammed into Kiryakmona and Spat,

[8:27] Israeli towns near the border. It was

[8:29] the third rocket attack in Kiryakmona in

[8:32] 4 days. This one was the worst. Seven

[8:34] people were injured. This may have been

[8:37] the last Palestinian salvo before a

[8:39] ceasefire. It may have been a signal

[8:42] from Lebanon that the Palestinians may

[8:44] make peace with the Christians, but

[8:46] never with the Israelis.

[8:49] By pulling out its forces today, Israel

[8:51] is making a political gesture with very

[8:53] little military significance. The tanks,

[8:56] the armored personnel carriers will be

[8:58] here at the border, ready to return at

[9:00] the first sound of Palestinian guns. Bob

[9:04] Simon, CBS News at the Good Fence.

[9:07] >> Over the weekend, the State Department

[9:09] applauded Israel's acceptance of a US

[9:11] proposal for a pan-Arab delegation,

[9:14] including Palestinians, at a Geneva

[9:16] peace conference. But today at the UN,

[9:18] Secretary of State Vance said that

[9:20] unspecified Israeli conditions,

[9:22] presumably refusal to deal with the PLO,

[9:25] in Vance's words, do not accurately

[9:28] reflect our views.

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[10:36] >> The Carter administration went on the

[10:37] offensive today as it took its campaign

[10:40] for ratification of the Panama Canal

[10:42] treaties to Congress. Secretary of State

[10:44] Vance appeared before the Senate Foreign

[10:47] Relations Committee. Defense Secretary

[10:49] Harold Brown and the General George

[10:51] Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs

[10:53] of Staff, went before the House

[10:55] International Relations Committee. All

[10:57] of them in their respective testimonies

[10:59] defended the treaties as being in the

[11:01] best interests of the United States.

[11:03] There was another development today and

[11:04] a potential scandal that has touched the

[11:07] long just completed negotiations. And

[11:09] Phil Jones has that story.

[11:11] CBS News has learned that a Senate

[11:13] subcommittee this afternoon voted

[11:15] unanimously to subpoena a former US Army

[11:17] sergeant to determine whether he was

[11:19] involved in any way with the alleged

[11:21] sale of US intelligence information to

[11:24] Panameanian authorities for more than

[11:26] $10,000. The subpoena is for Sergeant

[11:29] Rodriguez Brush Meer, now out of

[11:32] the army. The subpoena orders Brush Meer

[11:34] to appear before the Senate Subcommittee

[11:36] on Separation of Powers on September

[11:39] 30th. Also subpoenaed are

[11:40] representatives from the Defense

[11:42] Department, from Justice, and the

[11:44] directors of the FBI and CIA in an

[11:47] effort to secure any records that might

[11:49] pertain to the sergeant or the alleged

[11:51] incident that reportedly occurred back

[11:53] in late 1974 or early 75. Senator James

[11:57] Allen, chairman of the subcommittee,

[11:59] which incidentally is loaded with

[12:01] senators opposed to the Panama Canal

[12:03] treaties, says he understands that the

[12:05] former sergeant can supply important

[12:08] information. The Senate Intelligence

[12:10] Committee claims that no US intelligence

[12:12] activities affected the treaty talks,

[12:14] but officials have refused to say

[12:16] whether spying actually occurred,

[12:18] whether Panameanians ever did anything

[12:20] that could have been interpreted as

[12:22] blackmail, and whether, as alleged, an

[12:24] American military man sold intelligence

[12:26] information to the Panameanians. Former

[12:29] Sergeant Brush Meyer is 28 years old. He

[12:31] served in the canal zone and was

[12:33] mustered out of the army this past

[12:35] August with an honorable discharge. Russ

[12:38] Meer has been living in Brooklyn, New

[12:39] York, but he is believed to have gone to

[12:42] Panama last week. Traveling in London

[12:44] tonight, Panameanian leader Omar

[12:46] Torillos told CBS News that he has never

[12:49] heard of Brussier that to his knowledge,

[12:51] the US never spied on Panama and that

[12:53] Panameanians at no time threatened the

[12:56] US. Phil Jones, CBS News, Washington.

[13:00] >> Control of the currency. John Heyman's

[13:02] criticism of Bert Lance's banking

[13:04] practices was a factor leading to the

[13:06] resignation of the Carter administration

[13:08] budget director. Today at a Senate

[13:10] Banking Committee hearing, Hyman was

[13:12] asked whether he would hire Lance as a

[13:14] banker.

[13:17] Uh

[13:19] well, it would depend on uh

[13:22] the job that I needed to have done in my

[13:24] institution.

[13:28] Glad to stay came out a little bit more

[13:31] humorously than I intended. Actually,

[13:33] >> the management of his institution was

[13:35] charged with unsafe and unound practice

[13:38] and that was corrected.

[13:41] They made a mistake and it was

[13:43] corrected. So the question is, if I were

[13:46] the controlling shareholder of a of a

[13:49] bank and had the right to hire

[13:51] management, would I consider hiring Mr.

[13:53] Lance? And the answer is yes. I

[13:54] certainly would.

[13:56] Incidentally, Lance and his wife were in

[13:58] Washington today for a farewell

[14:00] reception for White House and Budget

[14:01] Office employees. President Mrs. Carter

[14:04] stopped by. The staff gave Lance his

[14:06] official chair with brass name plate on

[14:08] the back from the cabinet room. Lance

[14:10] said it reminded him of a tombstone back

[14:13] in Georgia bearing the epitap. I told

[14:16] you I was sick.

[14:22] Jenner's going to do it. He's won the

[14:24] gold, but he's going after the record,

[14:26] and he's GOING TO SHATTER IT. JENNER'S

[14:28] GOT IT. JENNER'S WON THE OLYMPIC

[14:30] DECATHLON. WHAT A DAY FOR BRUCE JENNER.

[14:33] I LOGGED a lot of miles getting ready

[14:35] for that day and downed a lot of

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[15:23] The lowest reserve seat airfares to

[15:25] London yet on the traditional airlines

[15:28] were unexpectedly approved today by

[15:30] President Carter. He overruled the Civil

[15:32] Aeronautics Board and told US Airlines

[15:34] they could begin immediately with a $256

[15:38] guaranteed seat roundtrip New York

[15:40] London fair. That's just $20 more than

[15:43] the standby no reservation service that

[15:45] the British Laker Airways began today.

[15:48] Its first plane left London with about

[15:50] 1/5if the seats empty despite the fact

[15:52] that the first ticket buyers had lined

[15:54] up 2 days in advance.

[15:57] Although the government has banned

[15:59] sleepwear treated with the flame

[16:01] retardant Tris, an environmental group

[16:03] charged today that another hazardous

[16:05] chemicals being used in its place. The

[16:07] substitute is Fyol FR2, which some tests

[16:11] have shown can cause cell mutations.

[16:13] Starfer Chemical Company, which makes

[16:15] Fireol, said it has stopped selling the

[16:17] chemical, but it doesn't know whether

[16:20] some sleepwear with it, is still on the

[16:22] shelves. 15-year-old Ronnie Zamora went

[16:25] on trial in Miami today, charged with

[16:28] murdering an elderly woman during a

[16:30] burglary. The case is an unusual one,

[16:32] not only because television cameras have

[16:34] been allowed in the courtroom, but

[16:36] especially because of the teenager's

[16:38] defense to the charges. David Dick has

[16:40] the story.

[16:43] The victim was 83-year-old Elellanar

[16:45] Hagert. She was shot to death in June of

[16:48] this year during the robbery of her

[16:49] Miami Beach home. But what might have

[16:52] been just another homicide case has

[16:54] attracted worldwide interest. The

[16:56] defendants are 15-year-old Ronnie Zamora

[16:59] and 15-year-old Daryl Agrella. They will

[17:02] be tried separately for murder. First,

[17:04] Ronnie Zamora, his attorney, will

[17:06] attempt to prove that Ronnie is innocent

[17:09] by reason of insanity. that at the time

[17:11] of the crime with which he is charged,

[17:13] he was mentally afflicted by television

[17:16] violence. That at the time of the

[17:18] murder, he was acting under the

[17:19] influence of what his attorney describes

[17:21] as involuntary subliminal television

[17:25] intoxication.

[17:26] Kjack was Ronnie Zamora's favorite

[17:29] program. According to the attorney for

[17:30] the defense, actor Telly Savales has

[17:33] been ordered to give a deposition to the

[17:35] court. The judge will decide later

[17:37] whether to require Sales to appear at

[17:39] the trial. The basic question, to what

[17:42] extent did television affect the

[17:44] behavior of Ronnie Zamora?

[17:47] The prosecution argues that quote, "A TV

[17:51] set causing intoxication is an

[17:53] absurdity. In Florida, television

[17:55] cameras are permitted in courtrooms, and

[17:58] this trial has attracted local,

[18:00] national, and international coverage.

[18:02] Because of the defendants's ages and the

[18:04] fact that they could be given death

[18:06] sentences, Judge Paul Baker is warning

[18:09] witnesses and prospective jurors not to

[18:12] watch rebroadcasts of the trial and has

[18:15] ordered the attorneys not to talk to the

[18:17] news media. David Dick, CBS News, Miami.

[18:22] The transportation department believes

[18:24] regular auto seat belts don't provide

[18:26] enough protection. It wants all cars

[18:28] eventually to have either airbags or a

[18:30] shoulder harness that locks

[18:32] automatically when a person enters the

[18:33] vehicle. Well, certain Volkswagen

[18:35] rabbits already have such an automatic

[18:38] harness. And the transportation

[18:39] department said today that the accident

[18:41] death rate in those cars is only

[18:43] onethird the rate in cars with belts

[18:46] that must be locked manually. The

[18:48] world's coffee producing nations

[18:50] gathered for their regular meeting in

[18:52] London today, excuse me, and it develops

[18:55] that there's a sharp split over what

[18:56] should be done about prices. It seems

[18:58] that since they let prices soar, world

[19:01] coffee consumption has dropped

[19:02] drastically. Colombia, the world's

[19:04] second largest producer, says they must

[19:06] put a ceiling on prices to try to bring

[19:08] consumers back. But Brazil, the number

[19:10] one producer, holding out for even

[19:12] higher prices. The Dow Jones Industrial

[19:15] Average picked up about 2 and a half

[19:16] points today. volume on the New York

[19:18] Stock Exchange, 18,200,000 shares. The

[19:21] average price per share gained 8 cents

[19:23] on the New York exchange. It was

[19:25] unchanged on the American. Lester

[19:28] Maddox, the former governor of Georgia's

[19:30] reported in guarded condition tonight

[19:32] after suffering a heart attack. Maddox

[19:34] is 61. The United Nations General

[19:36] Assembly opened debate today before

[19:38] representatives from 149 countries. The

[19:40] newest member, Vietnam. Eric Seide

[19:43] comments.

[19:46] The UN General Assembly has reconvened

[19:48] in New York, including representatives

[19:49] of the regime that now runs a unified

[19:51] Vietnam. They won their war. They have

[19:54] demonstrated full control of that

[19:55] country. The principle of universality

[19:57] must govern UN membership, not

[19:59] like-mindedness. So, they are entitled

[20:01] to their seat. Americans must put up

[20:03] with that. What they may properly react

[20:05] to is a transaction that occurred

[20:07] yesterday in a New York theater. Several

[20:10] thousand other Americans joyfully

[20:11] welcomed the Hanoi delegation, one of

[20:13] whom promptly denounced what he called

[20:15] US imperialism and demanded money

[20:17] payment from this country.

[20:20] One newspaper describes a gathering as

[20:22] the anti-war movement coming together

[20:23] again. It was rather that part of the

[20:26] anti-war movement which was not anti-war

[20:28] at all. It was antithe role in the war

[20:30] and pro- Hanoi. This group never had the

[20:33] slightest objection to the murderous

[20:35] civil war in Vietnam, which was started

[20:37] by the Hanoi communists who invaded the

[20:39] South, where the war was entirely

[20:40] fought, save for the American bombing of

[20:42] the North. There was a great difference

[20:45] between those Americans who wanted the

[20:46] United States out of the war because

[20:48] they thought it was none of our

[20:49] business, unwininnable, morally and

[20:51] politically destructive of our own

[20:52] principles and our own society, between

[20:55] them and the Americans who wanted Hanoi

[20:57] to win.

[20:59] It was a latter, for the most part, who

[21:01] met in the theater and had the effrtery

[21:03] to welcome the Hanoi officials in the

[21:04] name of the American people. There is

[21:07] nothing most Americans want to forget

[21:08] more than Vietnam. But this occurrence

[21:11] obliges us to do a little remembering,

[21:13] to remember the thousands of North

[21:14] Vietnamese farmers cold-bloodedly

[21:16] liquidated by the Hanoi communists in

[21:18] the name of their class warfare

[21:20] doctrine. A million or so ordinary

[21:22] people of the North driven into exile in

[21:24] the South, men, women, and children on

[21:26] foot. tens of thousands of Catholics

[21:28] among them, the thousands of village

[21:30] leaders in the South executed by

[21:32] Vietkong assassination squads

[21:35] and to remember that at no time was

[21:37] there evidence that the majority of

[21:39] southern Vietnamese desired communist

[21:41] rule and much evidence that a majority

[21:43] feared and loathed the prospect. They

[21:45] were not a downtrodden, starving people,

[21:48] however inefficient and often corrupt

[21:49] their official which never imposed

[21:51] massive regimentation upon them.

[21:54] Most of those in the New York theater

[21:56] were not celebrating peace. They were

[21:58] celebrating the triumph of communist

[22:00] totalitarianism, which is what they had

[22:02] always been working for in the guise of

[22:04] a peace movement.

[22:06] Rhdesian blacks outnumber the country's

[22:08] whites 24:1 and the ratio is fast

[22:11] increasing. According to figures

[22:13] released today, more than 1600 whites

[22:15] left Rhodesia last month. Only 598

[22:18] arrived. At that rate, there will be no

[22:21] whites left in Rhodesia by the year

[22:23] 2006.

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[22:59] >> This woman, my wife, mother of my

[23:01] children, career woman. She's amazing.

[23:05] You know, in an average day, she does

[23:06] more than lots of people do in a week.

[23:08] >> Oh, honey, we both do a lot. But busy as

[23:11] I am, I find the time to do the right

[23:13] things to take care of myself.

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[23:19] very important vitamins. Take a look at

[23:21] what Geratl can do for you. Isn't she

[23:24] something? Oh,

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[23:30] It's been more than 8 years since

[23:32] British troops were dispatched to

[23:33] Northern Ireland to quell the violence

[23:35] between Protestants and Catholics. Since

[23:37] then, hundreds of persons have been

[23:39] killed. Countless others have been

[23:40] arrested. Mike Lee gives us a rare look

[23:43] inside the prison where many of those

[23:45] arrested are held.

[23:48] The prisoners march in homemade uniforms

[23:51] with homemade flags and answer only to

[23:53] their commanding inmate officers inside

[23:55] the Boboire compound. It's not a P camp

[23:59] in the 1940s, but a British prison in

[24:02] Northern Ireland in 1977.

[24:04] The Long Kesh Prison, also known as the

[24:07] Maze, just outside Belfast, where some

[24:10] 700 inmates, half Catholic, half

[24:12] Protestant, and all convicted of acts of

[24:14] terrorism, enjoy, in the very real sense

[24:17] of the term, the status of political

[24:19] prisoners. This film, said to have been

[24:22] taken this past summer inside the maze

[24:24] prison with a smuggled camera, shows

[24:26] convicted Protestant terrorist, but life

[24:29] for Catholic inmates of the provisional

[24:31] IRA is reported to be much the same. It

[24:34] all began with a prisoners hunger strike

[24:36] in 1972 with IRA inmates claiming not to

[24:40] be common criminals or murderers, but

[24:42] prisoners of war, the war against

[24:44] British rule, and demanding and giving

[24:47] special category status. This was also

[24:50] granted to Protestant terrorist inmates

[24:52] in order to keep peace inside the

[24:53] prison. Special category prisoners don't

[24:56] have to work, can wear their own clothes

[24:59] or paramilitary uniforms, can receive

[25:02] regular parcels of food and clothing

[25:03] from the outside, cannot be addressed

[25:06] directly by prison guards except through

[25:08] the inmate chain of command, and are

[25:10] allowed to conduct classes of their own

[25:12] choosing. Such classes are said to

[25:14] include instruction in the care and use

[25:16] of rifles. This reported IRA photograph

[25:20] claims to show an inmate teacher holding

[25:22] a wooden model made inside the prison.

[25:25] The technique of sniping is another

[25:27] reported learning process as well as the

[25:30] ins and outs of wiring and planting

[25:32] terrorist bombs. Desmond Irvine is a

[25:35] spokesman for the prison guards.

[25:37] >> Probably their training takes place

[25:39] during the hours of darkness when

[25:40] they're locked in a hut rather than

[25:43] during the hours of daylight.

[25:46] Is there anything you can do to stop it?

[25:48] >> No.

[25:49] >> John White was recently a Protestant

[25:51] military commander inside the maze

[25:53] prison.

[25:54] >> There's a war situation on it's been

[25:56] going on this last seven or eight years.

[25:59] Both sides have committed acts of

[26:01] terrorism

[26:02] and it is a warlike situation.

[26:05] Therefore, if we are caught on an

[26:07] operation, we feel that we are prisoners

[26:08] of war, which we are.

[26:11] >> Mrs. Bernie McMullen has two sons in

[26:13] prison. One for murdering a British

[26:15] soldier, the other for the attempted

[26:17] murder of a policeman.

[26:19] >> They never broke and entered. They never

[26:21] murdered anyone

[26:22] >> except soldiers.

[26:23] >> Except soldiers and policemen. Yes.

[26:26] They're at war with them people.

[26:29] They're out fighting for their country.

[26:31] Not not fighting for their own gains.

[26:35] No. Not none of my sons ever fought for

[26:37] their own gains. They fought for the

[26:38] love of their country.

[26:41] And I admire them. I'm proud of them.

[26:44] I really am president.

[26:46] >> Since March of 1976, jail terrorists are

[26:48] no longer treated as privileged

[26:50] prisoners. But those who do enjoy such

[26:52] freedoms in captivity will be allowed to

[26:54] continue them. That's because officials

[26:56] fear a prisonwide bloodbath if inmates

[26:59] are denied their political status.

[27:01] So, the guards continue to look on

[27:03] helplessly. The British government turns

[27:05] an embarrassed head, and much of

[27:07] Northern Ireland waits in fear for the

[27:09] day the special categories return to the

[27:11] streets. Mike Lee, CBS News, at the

[27:14] Maize Prison near Belfast.

[27:17] >> In spite of President Carter's appeal

[27:19] for continued natural gas price

[27:21] controls, a Senate test vote late this

[27:23] afternoon showed strong opposition to

[27:25] doing so that was 53-39.

[27:28] And that's the way it is Monday,

[27:29] September 26, 1977. This is Water Kite,

[27:33] CBS News. Good night.

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[28:39] >> This has been the CBS Evening News with

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[28:45] room until Betty White's diamond

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[28:51] Show tonight at 9 8 central in Mountain

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