NBC Nightly News - 1991-09-28
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[0:10] Mikail Gorbachoff praises President
[0:12] Bush's cuts in nuclear weapons, but does
[0:14] not say what he will do. In Iraq, UN
[0:17] investigators are freed, and they have
[0:19] the evidence they wanted. And in this
[0:21] country, health care for the poor. As
[0:24] their numbers grow, the help they are
[0:25] getting is going down.
[0:29] This is NBC Nightly News reported by
[0:32] Garrett Utley.
[0:33] >> Good evening. It is an idea whose time
[0:35] has clearly come and today the worldwide
[0:38] reaction to President Bush's decision to
[0:39] eliminate entire categories of nuclear
[0:41] weapons is positive and it is unanimous.
[0:44] The surprise announcement includes these
[0:45] key points to reduce the risk of nuclear
[0:48] conflict. The United States will
[0:50] eliminate all short-range nuclear
[0:51] weapons on land and at sea, although not
[0:53] those on airplanes. Today, the practice
[0:56] of keeping US strategic bombers on
[0:58] 24-hour alert in the air was halted. And
[1:00] President Bush said he wants to
[1:02] negotiate the reduction of land-based
[1:04] intercontinental missiles with multiple
[1:05] warheads, but not the ones on submarines
[1:08] where the United States has a
[1:09] significant advantage. Now, of course,
[1:11] the one response to all this that really
[1:13] counts as the one from the Kremlin. And
[1:14] today, Mikail Gorbachov welcomed the
[1:16] Bush proposal, although the Soviets are
[1:19] not about to accept all of it without
[1:20] asking a lot of questions. In Moscow,
[1:22] Bob Abernathy explains why.
[1:26] Speaking on Soviet television,
[1:27] Gorbachoff called the Bush offer a
[1:29] serious largecale initiative.
[1:33] >> Our assessment of these proposals is
[1:35] positive. Very positive. I thi