NBC Nightly News - 1982-07-27
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[0:05] [music]
[0:05] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
[0:09] in New York and Roger Mudd in
[0:10] Washington.
[0:12] Good evening. Never before has the
[0:14] federal government had a budget deficit
[0:16] larger than $66.4 billion in 1976.
[0:20] But today the Congressional Budget
[0:22] Office, which is a bipartisan
[0:23] professional staff operation, predicted
[0:26] a deficit as high as $160 billion.
[0:28] Here's Irving R. Levine.
[0:31] The head of the Congressional Budget
[0:33] Office told senators that the recession
[0:35] and high interest rates are to blame for
[0:37] the projected bigger deficits. Adding
[0:41] uh the current economic picture to the
[0:43] old numbers uh does leave you with
[0:45] deficits in the range of 140 to 160
[0:48] billion
[0:49] uh over the next 3 years. The reaction
[0:52] of the senators, Johnston, Democrat of
[0:55] Louisiana, shocking. Andrews, Republican
[0:58] of North Dakota, surprising. Riegle,
[1:01] Democrat of Michigan.
[1:02] >> very distressed at those numbers and and
[1:04] as a matter of fact
[1:06] my own judgment is if anything uh
[1:08] they're optimistic. The deficit
[1:10] projections have been ballooning.
[1:13] February, the administration predicted a
[1:15] 1983 deficit of $92 billion.
[1:19] April, raised to 102 billion. Last
[1:22] Sunday, Treasury Secretary Regan
[1:24] forecast 110 to 114 billion. Today's
[1:29] Rivlin estimate for 1983, 141 to 151
[1:34] billion. The reasons, high interest
[1:36] rates have bankrupted many businesses
[1:39] and put people out of work, reducing tax
[1:42] revenues to the Treasury as did the big
[1:44] tax cut bill President Reagan signed
[1:46] last summer.
[1:48] To reduce the deficits, Rivlin
[1:50] recommended new taxes and more spending
[1:52] cuts. The things that Rivlin suggested
[1:55] cutting, in particular social security
[1:57] benefits, are the very things that
[1:59] neither the administration nor Congress
[2:02] has any intention of touching in an
[2:04] election year.
[2:06] Irving R. Levine, NBC News, Washington.
[2:10] The administration, whose leader the
[2:11] president once called the Budget Office
[2:13] predictions a phony, was slightly more
[2:15] charitable today. Press Secretary Larry
[2:17] Speakes said the office was unduly
[2:19] pessimistic. The administration's
[2:21] estimate on the deficit, originally due
[2:23] July 15th, is now promised for the end
[2:25] of this week. Tom?
[2:28] What everyone wants to know, of course,
[2:29] is what effect these deficits will have
[2:31] on interest rates, which are the talk of
[2:33] this troubled economy. Interest rates
[2:35] are like an ancient plague these days.
[2:37] They move through a community silently
[2:39] destroying some businesses and
[2:40] terrifying others. They are reshaping
[2:43] the American scene. Fred Briggs in
[2:45] Medina, Ohio. Although one of Ohio's
[2:48] oldest towns, Medina is basically a
[2:50] bedroom community now, 20 minutes from
[2:52] Akron, 30 minutes from Cleveland. Growth
[2:54] and the housing that accompanies it has
[2:56] been Medina's major industry for 12
[2:58] years. Now, all of a sudden housing
[3:01] starts are down 75%. Interest rates.
[3:04] Developers who have put in water and
[3:06] sewer lines are having trouble finding
[3:08] buyers. Interest rates. Realtors have
[3:11] trouble selling older homes. Medina has
[3:13] 40% fewer realtors than it had 5 years
[3:16] ago. I don't think anybody could take
[3:18] another 2 or 3 years of what we had.
[3:21] Downtown there are some stores more than
[3:23] a hundred years old. The Ziegler family
[3:25] has owned this department store four
[3:27] generations. Interest rates and
[3:29] recession have brought some caution
[3:31] about inventory, keeping it smaller,
[3:33] taking fewer gambles on what will sell,
[3:35] but the Zieglers have seen bad times
[3:37] before. We've made it through the last 2
[3:39] years. We were here during the last
[3:41] depression. I so we certainly expect to
[3:42] still be here, but there's no question
[3:44] that a number of the retailers who are
[3:46] relatively new in particular and good
[3:48] acquaintances of ours aren't going to be
[3:50] around in the next few years. Some of
[3:52] the older retailers are feeling
[3:53] squeezed, too. Not many, but finding
[3:56] available space on the town square would
[3:57] have been unthinkable 4 years ago.
[4:00] The old Phoenix Bank, 124 years old, is
[4:03] saying no to a lot of would-be borrowers
[4:05] now even at today's interest rates. In
[4:08] order to lend money, we we need new
[4:09] deposits. And when the when the area has
[4:12] become a a bit stagnated because of a
[4:15] lack of growth,
[4:16] uh the new deposits are harder and
[4:18] harder to get.
[4:22] There is still a good life here, good
[4:24] for those who got here when mortgages
[4:26] were reasonable, when it didn't take a
[4:28] $50,000 income to buy an $80,000 home.
[4:31] The good old days, some call them, the
[4:33] good old days of 1978.
[4:36] Fred Briggs, NBC News, Medina, Ohio.
[4:40] And today's profit scorecard for some
[4:41] well-known companies in the second
[4:43] quarter, Ford Motor Company, nearly $205
[4:46] million in profits. Mobile, Gulf, Shell,
[4:49] and Phillips, all oil companies,
[4:51] reported profits, but they were
[4:53] considerably less than they were a year
[4:54] ago.
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[6:15] >> You bet. After all, what is hamburger?
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[6:36] In the Middle East today, Israeli Prime
[6:37] Minister Begin was quoted as saying that
[6:39] he would never negotiate with PLO leader
[6:41] Arafat. At the same time, Israel hit
[6:44] residential areas of West Beirut hard
[6:46] again today. As for Arafat, he turned
[6:49] down Sudan's offer of a sanctuary and he
[6:52] talked of what he expects of the United
[6:54] States. James Compton now in Beirut.
[6:56] Arafat says America has a choice,
[6:59] continue its unconditional support of
[7:00] Israel or recognize that Palestinians
[7:03] have rights as well.
[7:05] To support this aggression, this attack,
[7:09] this inhumanitarian
[7:10] uh
[7:12] invasion,
[7:13] barbarian invasion, or to go
[7:16] with the peaceful solution
[7:19] to get a settlement in this area. The
[7:21] PLO still declines to clarify the
[7:23] document signed by Arafat for a group of
[7:26] American congressmen on Sunday. But the
[7:28] organization continues to hint that
[7:30] recognition of Israel could follow if
[7:32] only America would endorse Palestinian
[7:34] rights.
[7:41] Even as Arafat left this meeting, the
[7:43] heaviest Israeli air raid yet began just
[7:46] blocks away.
[7:56] This apartment house, where dozens of
[7:58] Palestinian refugee families lived, took
[8:00] a direct hit.
[8:02] There were frantic efforts to escape.
[8:05] The apartment house is at least a mile
[8:07] from any military concentration. It is
[8:10] the deepest strike yet into civilian
[8:12] neighborhoods of Beirut.
[8:15] The wounded went to a nearby hospital.
[8:17] Many were Lebanese civilians.
[8:20] The bomb strike had been so close to the
[8:21] hospital itself that the staff pleaded
[8:23] for immunity from air strikes. And do
[8:26] tell the Israeli to respect the
[8:28] hospital, to respect the injured people,
[8:31] you see,
[8:32] and not shoot the hospital.
[8:35] In the next room, a Palestinian woman
[8:37] Somaya Al Fadl with her two children.
[8:39] Their house was destroyed early in the
[8:41] war. Yesterday, the mother and son
[8:44] suffered phosphorus burns [music] in the
[8:45] Israeli bombing raid.
[8:48] The raids continued throughout the day.
[8:50] Palestinian forces replied with a Soviet
[8:52] SAM-7 missile, but Palestinian defenses
[8:55] were no match for the sophisticated
[8:57] American aircraft.
[8:59] James Compton, NBC News, West Beirut.
[9:02] Palestinian and Syrian rockets were then
[9:04] fired in retaliation at the port of
[9:06] Juni, 12 miles north of Beirut. And at
[9:09] least one of those rockets hit a Red
[9:11] Cross ship in the harbor at the time.
[9:13] The West German Red Cross, which owns
[9:15] the ship, said one of its crew members
[9:16] was killed. It called the incident a
[9:19] deliberate attack.
[9:20] Others in Juni said they believe that
[9:22] the missiles were aimed at Lebanese
[9:23] Christian forces, which are nearby.
[9:27] One of the most controversial weapons
[9:28] used in this war is the American-made
[9:30] cluster bomb, which contains hundreds of
[9:32] pieces of shrapnel. Last week, President
[9:34] Reagan suspended delivery of cluster
[9:36] bombs to Israel. Today, he extended that
[9:39] suspension indefinitely. The decision is
[9:42] not tied to any findings of misuse by
[9:44] the Israelis, according to the
[9:46] administration.
[9:47] Roger?
[9:48] The administration today certified that
[9:50] El Salvador was making progress on human
[9:53] rights and the land reform program and
[9:55] was therefore eligible to continue
[9:57] receiving US military support. However,
[9:59] several Democrats from the Senate
[10:01] Foreign Relations Committee, including
[10:02] Dodd of Connecticut, are concerned about
[10:04] new allegations of torture and called
[10:06] today's certification a sham. We have a
[10:09] report tonight on the Salvadoran land
[10:11] reform program from Bonnie Anderson.
[10:15] In the past few weeks, more than 5,000
[10:18] Salvadoran peasants have gone to highly
[10:20] publicized ceremonies like this one to
[10:22] receive provisional titles to land. And
[10:25] for the first [music] time in the
[10:26] 2-year-old agrarian reform program, the
[10:29] government has given full land ownership
[10:31] to 251 other farmers, known as
[10:34] campesinos.
[10:37] This last-minute acceleration of the
[10:38] program has been engineered by the army.
[10:41] Almost $100 million of US military aid
[10:44] hinges in part on the agrarian reform
[10:46] program. US Ambassador to El Salvador,
[10:49] Dean Hinton, says the results speak for
[10:51] themselves. There are over 30,000
[10:54] individual campesinos who now have
[10:58] provisional title to their own land. And
[11:01] this done during a period of intense
[11:03] civil strife. It is a remarkable
[11:05] achievement. But there have been
[11:07] problems. After the March election, the
[11:09] new right-wing constituent assembly cut
[11:12] back part of the program for a year. And
[11:14] in the confusion, former landowners
[11:16] evicted more than 4,000 peasants. The
[11:19] entire program stopped temporarily.
[11:21] Adolfo Rey Prendes, whose centrist
[11:23] Christian Democrat party initiated the
[11:25] reforms, says that is precisely what the
[11:28] right-wing parties intended. What they
[11:30] are really trying to do is to destroy,
[11:32] to reverse the program. Publicly,
[11:35] however, right-wing leaders say they are
[11:37] only trying to improve the reforms and
[11:40] support the army's efforts to reinstate
[11:42] evicted peasants. For El Salvador's
[11:44] government, the support of the peasants
[11:46] is as important as US aid. Although poor
[11:49] crop workers like Maximo Pineda have
[11:51] received provisional land titles, there
[11:54] is no guarantee their land ownership
[11:56] will last. If it doesn't, the leftists
[11:59] will become the opportunists.
[12:01] Bonnie Anderson, NBC News, El Salvador.
[12:05] And the Reagan administration is
[12:06] expected to announce tomorrow a 1-year
[12:09] extension of the current grain sale deal
[12:11] with the Soviet Union. The United States
[12:13] has a huge grain surplus now, and the
[12:15] president's political advisers have told
[12:17] him that a refusal to sell grain would
[12:19] leave congressional candidates in the
[12:21] farm belt vulnerable.
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[13:57] >> The congressional inquiry into alleged
[13:59] illegal sex and drug use got a chief
[14:01] counsel today, Joseph Califano, the
[14:03] Washington lawyer and former HEW
[14:05] secretary. He and his law partners each
[14:07] will be paid about $100 an hour, which
[14:10] is about half their going rate. Lisa
[14:12] Myers reports.
[14:14] By bringing in a lawyer of Califano's
[14:16] stature, the committee sought to
[14:18] reassure the public that the
[14:19] investigation will not be a whitewash.
[14:23] We wanted a counsel whose independence
[14:26] could not be questioned. But at least
[14:28] equally important was the implicit
[14:29] reassurance for members of Congress that
[14:31] there will be no witch hunt.
[14:33] Califano is more politician than
[14:35] prosecutor, is on a first-name basis
[14:38] with some he may be investigating, and
[14:39] is an old friend of House Speaker Thomas
[14:42] O'Neill. I am doing this most
[14:44] reluctantly
[14:45] after many conversations
[14:48] with the Chairman Stokes and Mr. Spence,
[14:50] and and indeed with the leaders on both
[14:52] sides of the aisle. I don't regard it as
[14:54] a pleasant task. I regard it as a public
[14:57] duty. Califano said he was promised
[14:59] unlimited resources and authority to
[15:01] pursue the investigation wherever it may
[15:04] lead. Committee investigators believe
[15:06] that as far as drugs are concerned, it
[15:08] may lead a few steps down the hall to
[15:10] the House Democratic cloakroom.
[15:13] Two senior cloakroom employees who work
[15:15] just off the House floor have been
[15:17] questioned about dealing cocaine,
[15:19] marijuana, and hashish allegedly
[15:21] distributed in government envelopes
[15:23] delivered by pages to certain
[15:25] congressional offices.
[15:27] Califano met briefly this afternoon with
[15:29] committee investigators who already have
[15:31] questioned 25 people.
[15:33] But thus far, the committee has more
[15:35] anonymous tipsters than credible
[15:37] witnesses, said one investigator.
[15:39] There's some real messy garbage out
[15:41] there, but whether we can prove it is
[15:43] another matter.
[15:44] Lisa Myers, NBC News at the Capitol.
[15:48] President Reagan will hold a press
[15:49] conference tomorrow night at 8:00
[15:51] Eastern time, which NBC will carry live.
[15:53] On Monday, he's speaking to the corn
[15:55] growers out in Des Moines, and on the
[15:57] following day he goes to the Knights of
[15:59] Columbus in Hartford. This will give him
[16:01] the chance to endorse one of the
[16:02] administration's least favorite
[16:04] Republican, Senator Lowell Weicker of
[16:05] Connecticut. Today, Weicker's GOP
[16:08] opponent, Prescott Bush, the brother of
[16:09] the vice president, formally withdrew
[16:11] from the race in the interest of what he
[16:13] said was party unity. Tom?
[16:16] In Los Angeles today, authorities said
[16:18] they may file criminal charges in the
[16:20] movie stunt accident that killed actor
[16:22] Vic Morrow and two children ages 6 and
[16:25] 7. They were hit by a helicopter that
[16:27] crashed during a battle scene. More now
[16:29] from Dennis Murphy.
[16:32] 6-year-old Renee Chen was buried today,
[16:34] a kindergartner from Pasadena. She was
[16:37] killed last Friday in a helicopter
[16:38] accident during the making of a movie.
[16:41] John Landis, the director of the film,
[16:43] placed flowers on her coffin.
[16:45] Another actor, 7-year-old Myca Le, who
[16:47] died in the same accident, was buried a
[16:49] few hours later.
[16:51] While friends mourned, investigators
[16:53] tried to find out what happened. How two
[16:56] children
[16:58] could be working at 2:30 in the morning
[17:01] just blows my mind.
[17:03] The California Department of Labor wants
[17:05] to know why neither child had a work
[17:07] permit.
[17:08] Once all the facts are in, then we may
[17:10] be going criminally,
[17:13] either misdemeanor
[17:14] with the possibility of a felony charge.
[17:17] The man in the hot seat is film director
[17:19] Landis, known in Hollywood as an action
[17:21] film specialist. He directed The Blues
[17:24] Brothers, a stuntman spectacular.
[17:32] On Friday, the last scene of The
[17:33] Twilight Zone, a Vietnam story, went
[17:36] terribly wrong. Explosive charges on the
[17:38] ground knocked the helicopter from the
[17:40] sky.
[17:41] And the film crew that was aboard the
[17:42] chopper is asking the movie industry to
[17:44] control the use of dangerous stunts.
[17:47] This doesn't happen, then I think we
[17:49] should withhold our services until this
[17:50] is put into put into place.
[17:53] I don't see how we can continue on this
[17:54] way. This must stop.
[17:56] So far, no one has explained why the
[17:58] children were hired without permits or
[18:00] why the helicopter that fell on them
[18:02] flew so close to the ground. These are
[18:04] questions which may be answered in
[18:05] criminal court.
[18:07] Dennis Murphy, NBC News, Los Angeles.
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[19:45] Government programs to aid the medically
[19:47] destitute are usually set up for the
[19:48] best of reasons, and their rules are
[19:50] generally designed to be fair. Sometimes
[19:52] people get caught in red tape when their
[19:54] case does not fit the rules. It happened
[19:57] to an elderly Charlottesville, Virginia
[19:58] woman who depends on Medicaid. Robert
[20:00] Hager reports.
[20:02] Mattie Dudley is 67, lives alone, has
[20:05] been in a wheelchair since childhood,
[20:07] and for as long as most can remember has
[20:09] sold newspapers on the street here. Now,
[20:12] the state of Virginia has notified Ms.
[20:13] Dudley that because she has assets of
[20:16] just over $1,500, her Medicaid benefits
[20:19] are to be cut off this Sunday. The
[20:21] assets consist mostly of a burial
[20:23] certificate now worth $1,200 she bought
[20:26] from a funeral home 3 years ago for
[20:28] $1,000. It guarantees that her funeral
[20:30] expenses will be paid. The rules say she
[20:33] must cash that in, but she won't.
[20:35] Because I died tonight right here where
[20:37] I'm sitting at.
[20:39] I'll be put away.
[20:40] Robert Cox, whose local social services
[20:42] department administers Medicaid here,
[20:45] says rules are rules. It's our job to
[20:47] administer very strictly and
[20:49] impartially despite
[20:52] the nature of the individual's
[20:53] situation, which often is quite
[20:55] difficult. But Ms. Dudley vows she's
[20:57] going to fight. And I'm going to argue
[20:59] with them until I get my satisfaction
[21:01] at.
[21:02] If I have to go to Richmond.
[21:05] To Washington, whatever it takes it, I'm
[21:06] going.
[21:07] Ms. Dudley says she's been promised one
[21:09] more session with Virginia state
[21:10] officials before the Sunday cutoff
[21:12] deadline. Robert Hager, NBC News,
[21:15] Charlottesville, Virginia.
[21:18] In Wales today, one of the 10 victims of
[21:20] last week's IRA bombings in London was
[21:23] laid to rest, and Jim Bitterman was
[21:25] there.
[21:27] >> [music]
[21:31] >> In the Welsh village of Tony Revai,
[21:33] a week almost to the minute after the
[21:35] IRA bombing,
[21:37] the body of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young
[21:39] was carried home.
[21:43] His fellow cavalrymen from the elite
[21:44] Blues and Royals regiment, some of whom
[21:46] were riding in his side last Tuesday
[21:48] [music] and were themselves injured in
[21:50] the blast,
[21:51] bore his coffin to the parish church.
[21:55] Inside, his young widow grieved.
[21:59] His Colonel Andrew Parker Bowles, a
[22:01] friend of Prince Charles and commanding
[22:03] officer of the Queen's Household
[22:04] Cavalry, led the regiment in mourning.
[22:08] The parish vicar, aware of the stature
[22:10] of those who gathered, considered making
[22:13] some political remarks, but decided
[22:15] instead it wasn't the place of a village
[22:18] preacher.
[22:19] In the tough Welsh coal country where
[22:21] Corporal Young grew up and which he left
[22:23] behind,
[22:24] staying off unemployment is an
[22:25] achievement.
[22:27] Joining the army is admired.
[22:29] And rising, as Corporal Young did, to
[22:31] the ranks of the prestigious cavalry
[22:33] regiment, nothing short of success.
[22:37] Hundreds of people came to the cemetery,
[22:39] many who knew the young corporal, some
[22:41] no doubt simply attracted by the
[22:43] ceremony so rarely accorded anyone from
[22:45] around here.
[22:48] Why, his widow cried, did it have to be
[22:51] Jeff?
[22:52] >> [music]
[22:54] >> And on the very day Lance Corporal
[22:56] Jeffrey Young should have turned 20
[22:58] years old,
[22:59] he was buried in the rocky Welsh ground.
[23:04] Jim Bitterman, NBC News, Tony Revai,
[23:06] Wales.
[23:16] When was the last time you had a good
[23:17] square meal?
[23:18] >> Uh, I had a chili dog last night. Uh-uh.
[23:22] Does a burger [music] count? Nope. I
[23:23] mean a good square meal, a real meat and
[23:26] potatoes dinner with nourishing
[23:28] vegetables, even dessert. How about
[23:31] >> a Swanson frozen dinner, [music]
[23:33] wholesome foods just for you. And
[23:37] nothing makes you feel as good as a good
[23:38] [music] square meal.
[23:39] >> Swanson's cooking. A good square meal.
[23:43] Just for [music] you.
[23:47] If you could repaint the world, you
[23:49] might decide [music] to change a few
[23:51] things, but you'd still want to use a
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[23:56] so your good taste would show. [music]
[23:58] It's manufactured for Kmart by Dutch
[24:00] Boy, so you know it's good. The
[24:02] Performer is a quality exterior paint
[24:04] [music] with 9-year durability. Keep it
[24:07] in mind when it's time to paint your own
[24:09] little corner of the world. The
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[24:14] [music] price by Kmart.
[24:16] America's driving machine takes on the
[24:18] world car. Dodge Omni Miser versus Ford
[24:20] Escort. Both have front-wheel drive, but
[24:22] Miser seats five to Escort's four.
[24:27] From zero to 50 getting you to the
[24:29] highway, Miser is faster. [music] On the
[24:31] highway, Miser gets the best gasoline
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[24:47] On many college campuses this summer,
[24:49] there's a new class of seniors. These
[24:51] are seniors more in age than in
[24:53] undergraduate standing, grown-ups who
[24:55] decided a week on campus is a splendid
[24:57] way to spend a vacation. And the
[24:59] colleges are grateful. They need the
[25:01] money.
[25:02] Here's Edwin Newman.
[25:05] >> [singing]
[25:08] >> Far above Cayuga's waters, a lot is
[25:10] happening this summer.
[25:12] It's got a rusty cap, sort of like
[25:14] chipping sparrow has.
[25:17] Some people are getting up at 5:00 every
[25:18] morning to go bird watching.
[25:21] Oh, you have a diving beetle. Beautiful.
[25:24] Others are dipping their strainers into
[25:26] ponds to come up with dragonfly nymphs
[25:28] and diving beetles. Inflation again was
[25:31] at its
[25:32] was down just as here. And still others
[25:35] are probing the mysteries of economics.
[25:37] There are no freshmen or sophomores
[25:39] here. Most students are middle-aged or
[25:41] older.
[25:42] In other words, I'm going to think of A
[25:44] and B as the input wires. They are part
[25:47] of Cornell's Adult University. 1,200
[25:50] people attend for a week for what they
[25:52] call a vacation education. No credits,
[25:55] just the fun of it.
[25:56] And spending 6 hours a day in class plus
[25:59] hours at the computer or in the field is
[26:01] their idea of fun.
[26:03] It's a change of pace. It stretches the
[26:05] mind and I find it very refreshing. I
[26:08] don't have to think about cooking for a
[26:09] week. The children are off my hands and
[26:14] having fun at the same time. And I'm
[26:16] free to study and
[26:20] pursue other interests.
[26:22] Children who come with their parents
[26:24] spend all day at camp.
[26:26] Okay, lie down.
[26:28] And hearing animals. At night, even the
[26:31] youngest are tucked in by counselors.
[26:36] >> [music]
[26:37] >> So, parents are free again. Not quite as
[26:40] free as when they were students, but
[26:42] free to concert hop or exchange ideas
[26:45] over coffee with well-known scholars
[26:47] like economist Alfred Kahn, who was
[26:49] President Carter's inflation adviser.
[26:52] Kahn enjoys these older students. First
[26:55] of all, they're generally better
[26:56] informed, they have more experience, and
[26:58] they come here
[26:59] kind of all fired up. It's just a
[27:01] exhilarating experience to teach them.
[27:04] >> [music and singing]
[27:08] >> Learning Mozart motets or the other
[27:10] things taught here may not be most
[27:12] people's idea of a vacation, but it has
[27:15] its converts. I'm sure when I go home
[27:18] I'll never
[27:19] walk down a sidewalk or through the
[27:21] woods again with quite the same pair of
[27:23] eyes. It's a whole different world. It
[27:24] really is something that I haven't seen
[27:27] before and explored, and that's what
[27:29] makes it exciting.
[27:32] >> [music and singing]
[27:40] >> Edwin Newman, NBC News.
[27:44] When I went to summer school, it was a
[27:45] case of had to. I had to because I
[27:47] didn't do so well during the regular
[27:48] term.
[27:50] That's nightly news for this Tuesday
[27:51] night. I'm Tom Brokaw in New York.
[27:53] I'm Roger Mudd in Washington, class of
[27:55] 1950. Good night from all of us at NBC
[27:58] News.
[28:00] Tomorrow morning on Today, did Yasser
[28:03] Arafat make fools of some visiting
[28:05] American congressmen? Jane Pauley talks
[28:07] with one of those congressmen. Also,
[28:09] Bryant Gumbel finds out why those
[28:11] friendly skies will be more expensive to
[28:13] fly in.
[28:19] >> [music]
[28:26] >> Tuesday, relax [music] and have a good
[28:28] time with Father Murphy.
[28:30] Then Everything's going to be just fine.
[28:32] A gold shipment's easy prey for robbers,
[28:34] but Maverick's in complete control. And
[28:36] McLain lays his job on the line when he
[28:38] busts a crooked businessman.
[28:40] I can get your badge for this.
[28:41] >> McLain's Law, now on Tuesday right after
[28:43] Father Murphy and Maverick on [music]
[28:44] NBC.
[28:47] Coming up in just a minute on the scene
[28:48] at 6:00, the Sixth Circuit Court of
[28:50] Appeals rejects Nashville school
[28:52] desegregation plan. State House Majority
[28:54] Leader Tommy Burnett is sentenced to
[28:56] jail on income tax charges.
[28:58] A sting operation operating out of a
[29:00] Charlotte Avenue garage nets 235
[29:02] indictments. And State Insurance
[29:04] Commissioner John Neff talks about the
[29:06] $4 million lawsuit filed against him and
[29:08] some Nashville businessmen.
[29:11] These stories and more news coming up on
[29:13] the scene at 6:00.
[29:18] Find out first on [music] four. Election
[29:20] 82, Thursday, August 5th, beginning with
[29:22] the scene at 6:00. For the fastest
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[29:27] team. Look for expert political [music]
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