NBC Nightly News - 1977-05-18

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[0:03] This is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:05] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,

[0:08] Wednesday, May 18th, reported from the

[0:11] NBC News Center in New York.

[0:14] Good evening. John Chancellor will be

[0:16] back tomorrow. Israel's right-wing

[0:19] Likood party came first in the election

[0:22] and its leader, Manahim Bean, is due to

[0:25] be the next prime minister. The Arab

[0:27] states saw this as disaster, saying

[0:30] negotiation would with him would be

[0:32] impossible, that President Carter's

[0:34] plans to bring peace to the Middle East

[0:36] were shattered, and they predicted more

[0:38] war. Other reactions and speculation

[0:41] were not that pessimistic, as in this

[0:43] report from Steve Delaney in Tel Aviv.

[0:48] The counting of votes goes on in Israel

[0:50] more than 24 hours after the polls

[0:52] close, and the results will not be

[0:54] official until the end of the month. But

[0:56] what happened is clear. Manakim began

[0:59] and the Lud opposition party swept the

[1:01] Labor Party out of power for the first

[1:03] time in Israel's history. This morning,

[1:06] Bean called his party leaders together

[1:07] and got their endorsement to try to set

[1:09] up a government of national unity, which

[1:11] would include all the parties except the

[1:13] communists.

[1:14] Began believes a broadly based

[1:16] government would help Israel now, but he

[1:18] says he's got enough support to rule

[1:20] without the defeated Labor Party or

[1:22] anyone else except the right-wing

[1:23] people. Meanwhile, statesmen all over

[1:26] the world and some Israelis have been

[1:28] trying to figure out what sort of man

[1:29] the voters have chosen and what changes

[1:31] there will be in Israeli policy.

[1:34] >> Been policy on the territories taken

[1:36] from Jordan in the six- day war is that

[1:38] the West Bank is a part of Israel and

[1:41] will be formally incorporated into the

[1:43] national boundaries. This is our land,

[1:45] the land of our forefathers. We didn't

[1:48] take anything away from anybody.

[1:50] President Carter who knows by heart the

[1:52] Bible should know to whom this land

[1:55] belongs. Otherwise we are intruders

[1:57] here. Why did we come here? We are

[1:59] intruders even in Tel Aviv. We are not.

[2:02] We are neither in Tel Aviv nor in

[2:05] neither in Jaffa nor in Jericho. It's

[2:08] our land. The land belonging as a right

[2:11] to the Jewish people. The Arabs don't

[2:14] recognize it for the time being. It's

[2:16] too bad. One day they will and I believe

[2:19] there will be peace.

[2:22] >> That stand appears at odds with American

[2:24] positions on a homeland for the

[2:25] Palestinian people. The new American

[2:27] ambassador who will have to deal with

[2:29] these questions, Samuel Lewis, arrived

[2:31] in Israel today, but he diplomatically

[2:34] ducked any questions about policy

[2:35] differences with the Israelis.

[2:38] A lot of Israelis believe Began is too

[2:40] rigid to compromise for peace and would

[2:42] lead the country into war. Those people

[2:44] are afraid of him. A lot of others

[2:46] believe he would stand up better to

[2:48] American and Arab pressure than any

[2:50] other Israeli, and they are pleased with

[2:52] his election. The real Began is probably

[2:55] in between, a man of strongly held

[2:57] ideas, but one tempered by a lifetime of

[2:59] dealing with the realities of politics.

[3:01] Chances are the Americans will learn to

[3:03] deal with Bean once they understand that

[3:05] he is a very tough man who's waited a

[3:08] long time to get where he is and that

[3:10] he's determined to bring his ideas on

[3:12] what Israel should be into the forging

[3:14] of Israeli policy. Steve Delaney, NBC

[3:18] News at the Liid Party headquarters in

[3:20] Tel Aviv.

[3:22] The Washington foreign policy

[3:23] establishment was saying very little,

[3:25] waiting to see who was in the Beagan

[3:27] cabinet and what pronouncements are made

[3:28] in Israel publicly and privately. Judy

[3:31] Woodruff is at the White House. Judy,

[3:33] tell us what you have heard there. How

[3:34] about the prospects for a Geneva meeting

[3:37] say?

[3:38] >> Well, David, first of all, the reaction

[3:40] here is clearly surprise. Nobody had

[3:42] expected the Labor Party to lose. The

[3:44] only real comment, interestingly, has

[3:46] come from officials who are traveling

[3:47] with Secretary of State Vance in Europe.

[3:50] They're saying that the election results

[3:52] probably mean that the Geneva peace

[3:54] talks will not be reconvened this year.

[3:57] If that's so, it's a setback for

[3:59] President Carter, who was calling for

[4:00] them to be reconvened by this fall. Now,

[4:03] part of the reason for that delay is

[4:05] that we understand it's going to take

[4:07] Been anywhere from four to 6 weeks to

[4:09] put a new coalition government together.

[4:12] Uh certainly the president, President

[4:14] Carter, wouldn't invite Been here to

[4:16] talk with him until he had formed a new

[4:18] coalition. What uh what do what do you

[4:21] think they believe about the long-term

[4:23] prospects in the Middle East?

[4:25] >> Well, as you know, the president has

[4:26] spoken several times of the need for a

[4:28] homeland for the Palestinians made up of

[4:31] territory that the Israelis would have

[4:33] to give up most likely on the west bank

[4:35] of the Jordan River. Uh Beine has said

[4:38] that that's non-negotiable. The thinking

[4:40] here is that Beine is just making tough

[4:43] talk that he is going to have to make

[4:44] concessions. They say after all that the

[4:46] United States is pouring a tremendous

[4:48] amount of money into Israel's economy.

[4:50] Uh that they really have very little

[4:52] negotiating room. It's really too early

[4:54] to say for sure what this means. If you

[4:57] had to have a consensus, it would be I

[4:59] think that the peace talks will be

[5:00] delayed, that the prospects for peace

[5:02] are somewhat dim, but that as one

[5:04] administration official told me this

[5:06] afternoon, uh there's going to have to

[5:07] be a homeland for the Palestinians and

[5:09] it's certainly not going to be in

[5:10] Africa.

[5:11] >> Judy, thanks. Thanks very much. Other

[5:14] news coming along, a report from Geneva

[5:16] where they're talking disarmament again.

[5:18] A close look at the cruise missile,

[5:21] actually an airplane without pilot or

[5:23] passengers. Washington wiretaps,

[5:25] arguments about saccharine, and two

[5:28] auctions, one of Rothschild treasures in

[5:31] England and a presidential yacht in the

[5:33] US.

[5:37] >> The makers of Metamucil, a fine

[5:38] laxative, would like to recommend

[5:40] something else. nature. Follow nature's

[5:44] directions and you should be regular.

[5:46] But when you occasionally need help,

[5:49] remember Metamucil is made from grain,

[5:51] not chemical stimulants. So it relieves

[5:53] easily, gradually, comfortably. Try to

[5:56] follow nature's directions. When you

[5:58] don't, try Metamucil, the laxative made

[6:00] from grain. If not nature, Metamucil.

[6:08] >> These Atlas tires look identical. They

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[6:11] and endurance, but we're removing our

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[6:17] standards for smooth ride and long-term

[6:18] reliability. In fact, these Atlas

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[6:29] Look for them at a service station in

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[7:07] >> In Geneva, more disarmament talks open

[7:09] today. The US and the Soviet Union

[7:12] signed an agreement never to use any

[7:15] weapons that would cause tidal waves,

[7:17] earthquakes, or hurricanes, and weapons

[7:20] like that have in fact been considered.

[7:22] Beyond that, the two countries picked up

[7:24] where they left off in Moscow in March,

[7:26] looking for ways to reduce their huge

[7:28] piles of nuclear weapons. Richard

[7:30] Valyriani in Geneva.

[7:34] >> Secretary Vance arrived aboard a

[7:35] commercial flight. He paid his own way

[7:38] after seeing his only son graduate from

[7:40] Yale University. In a brief airport news

[7:42] conference, Vance provided little cause

[7:44] for optimism about his talks with Soviet

[7:47] foreign minister GO on a new nuclear

[7:49] arms control agreement. Uh

[7:51] >> I don't know whether there will be any

[7:53] progress.

[7:54] Uh time will tell. Are you bringing any

[7:58] uh new ideas or suggestions on the uh

[8:01] salt negotiations to Geneva? No,

[8:02] >> we're really merely resuming

[8:04] discussions. Uh

[8:07] anybody else got any questions?

[8:09] >> Vance and GMO joined 28 other diplomats

[8:11] in signing a new international treaty

[8:13] that says in effect it's not nice to

[8:16] fool with mother nature and which

[8:17] prohibits changing the environment for

[8:20] military reasons.

[8:23] For Vance and GMO, the signing ceremony

[8:25] was window dressing. They came here to

[8:28] talk about limiting nuclear weapons and

[8:30] the Middle East. But neither side was

[8:33] optimistic about making any progress.

[8:36] Another signing took place at the Soviet

[8:38] embassy, a renewal of an agreement on

[8:40] space cooperation, a kind of remembrance

[8:43] of things past when American Soviet

[8:45] negotiations had gone better. The

[8:47] Americans wanted today's talks to begin

[8:49] with the Middle East, but the Russians

[8:51] insisted on discussing arms control.

[8:54] Their meeting lasted 2 hours and 20

[8:55] minutes. The atmosphere was described as

[8:58] business-like, but no information was

[9:00] provided on the substance of the talks.

[9:03] They'll continue talking about limiting

[9:04] nuclear weapons tomorrow. Richard

[9:07] Valerani, NBC News in Geneva.

[9:10] Recent AmericanRussian disarmament talks

[9:13] have been hung up on two weapons, the

[9:15] American cruise missile and the Russian

[9:17] Backfire Bomber. Each country wants to

[9:20] count the other's weapon as a strategic

[9:22] weapon, and each says it really is not,

[9:25] and neither believes the other. The

[9:27] cruise missile actually is an old idea

[9:30] reworked. Here's Roy Neil in San Diego.

[9:33] >> The Navy's cruise missile can be

[9:35] launched from the torpedo tube of a

[9:37] submarine.

[9:40] A rocket propels the missile into the

[9:43] atmosphere

[9:45] out.

[9:45] >> Then the rocket is left behind and a jet

[9:48] engine takes over. Cruise missiles are

[9:51] unmanned airplanes.

[9:54] They can be launched from the deck of a

[9:56] ship.

[9:58] They can take off from land-based

[10:00] launchers.

[10:03] The Air Force has developed a version

[10:05] that can be launched from bombers. That

[10:07] missile is smaller than its Navy

[10:09] counterpart. Its range is shorter, but

[10:12] both use the same kind of miniature jet

[10:14] engine, the same kind of guidance

[10:16] system, and both can carry the same kind

[10:18] of nuclear warhead. Both programs are

[10:22] under a single command for developments.

[10:25] Cruise missiles date back to the German

[10:27] buzz bombs of the Second World War. The

[10:29] United States discarded them back in the

[10:31] 1960s in favor of ballistic missiles.

[10:34] Russia has hundreds of them even today,

[10:37] but ours are new weapons using modern

[10:41] technology.

[10:43] What's new in coming back to visit

[10:45] cruise missiles after the 1950s is to

[10:48] take all the modern technology that are

[10:50] associated with our airplane and space

[10:52] programs and put it into a missile which

[10:55] costs less money.

[10:56] >> Cruise missiles are small, but they

[10:58] carry a nuclear bomb. They fly very low,

[11:01] 100 ft above the surface, and they fly

[11:03] at jet speed around 550 mph. They are

[11:08] extremely accurate. At a range of 2,000

[11:10] mi, the Navy claims its cruise missile

[11:12] can hit a football field and using an

[11:15] advanced targeting system could even put

[11:17] the missile between the goalposts.

[11:22] In development, the missiles are

[11:23] recovered by parachute, and some have

[11:26] already flown from California to Utah

[11:28] and New Mexico with great accuracy.

[11:32] But the biggest selling point in favor

[11:33] of cruise missiles is the low cost. The

[11:36] program office claims they can be

[11:38] produced for about 3/4 of a million

[11:40] dollars a piece, exclusive of the

[11:42] nuclear warhead.

[11:44] >> We're looking for lowcost weapons. If we

[11:46] don't, we're going to create a defense

[11:48] we can't afford. And yet, we can't

[11:50] afford to be without a defense. So, if

[11:53] we don't do something about the cost of

[11:55] weapons, we're going to have a quandry

[11:57] in the 21st century. And the cruise

[12:00] missile is one of those attempts to turn

[12:02] around the cost of weaponry.

[12:05] The Air Force has said it could use more

[12:07] than 2,000 cruise missiles, the Navy

[12:10] about 1,200. But as critics in Congress

[12:13] point out, neither service has actually

[12:15] defined the future role of these

[12:17] weapons. Partly because the test program

[12:20] still has two years to run, but also

[12:22] because cruise missiles have become a

[12:25] major bargaining point in the strategic

[12:27] arms limitation talks.

[12:29] The Russians seem to be afraid of them.

[12:34] The cruise missiles are testing well.

[12:36] The production facility is here. But the

[12:38] big decision of whether to produce these

[12:40] missiles won't be made for at least 2

[12:42] years and may very well be influenced by

[12:45] international politics. Roy Neil, NBC

[12:48] News, San Diego.

[12:51] President Carter talked with the leaders

[12:53] of Congress today about the Geneva

[12:54] meetings. He said he was standing fast

[12:57] on offers this country has already made.

[13:00] And he told them the Soviet Union now

[13:02] has the world's most destructive single

[13:05] missile, the SS18,

[13:07] able to carry 8 to 12 warheads, more

[13:11] explosive power than any missile this

[13:13] country has.

[13:18] This is Roman meal,

[13:20] and there's no other bread like it. The

[13:23] recipe for Roman meal is over 60 years

[13:25] old. It calls for the finest whole

[13:27] grains available. Milled in a special

[13:30] way to retain the nutrients as well as

[13:32] the natural whole grain flavor. When

[13:34] combined with other ingredients in the

[13:36] exact amount, you get a good tasting

[13:38] light brown bread with natural whole

[13:40] grain goodness. Roman meal. The Roman

[13:44] Meal company thought you'd like to know.

[13:48] In the aunties of Colombia, South

[13:50] America, the terrain is very beautiful

[13:53] to see and very difficult to farm.

[13:58] But here, the soil is rich with

[14:00] minerals.

[14:02] And here, coffee beans ripen next to the

[14:05] sun. So here, Juan Baldez grows his

[14:08] coffee. Juan knows his work would be

[14:10] easier on flat land. But Juan also knows

[14:12] that only on his land can he grow the

[14:14] richest coffee in the world.

[14:18] What you doing, Maryannne? Susan Junior

[14:21] scraped me with Vaseline petroleum

[14:23] jelly.

[14:23] >> What you doing, Mr. Smith?

[14:26] >> Using my Vaseline petroleum jelly.

[14:28] Smooth out these hardworking hands.

[14:29] >> What you doing, sis?

[14:31] >> Taking off my eye makeup, silly, with

[14:33] Vaseline petroleum jelly.

[14:34] >> What you doing, mom?

[14:36] >> Moisturizing my face with

[14:38] >> I know with Vaseline petroleum jelly.

[14:41] >> Knees, eyes, face, hands. Vaseline

[14:44] petroleum jelly

[14:45] >> is doing it all.

[14:48] The Constitution says federal judges pay

[14:50] may not be reduced while they're in

[14:53] office. The idea of that was to prevent

[14:55] a some future tough and nasty president

[14:58] or Congress from punishing the courts

[15:01] for decisions they didn't like. Well,

[15:04] 140 federal judges with Arthur Goldberg

[15:06] as their lawyer claimed inflation had

[15:09] effectively reduced their pay in recent

[15:11] years in violation of the Constitution.

[15:14] Today, the US Court of Claims turned

[15:16] them down and said that was not what the

[15:18] Constitution meant.

[15:20] President Carter and the congressional

[15:22] leaders at the White House talked about

[15:24] ways to change the laws on wiretapping.

[15:27] Here's Ford Rowan in Washington.

[15:30] These congressional and administration

[15:32] officials worked out a compromise

[15:33] electronic surveillance bill. It would

[15:36] require intelligence agencies to obtain

[15:38] court warrants to wiretap phones or

[15:40] monitor radio messages in the United

[15:42] States.

[15:44] Liberals who worried about the

[15:45] eavesdropping abuses of the past joined

[15:47] with conservatives who do not want to

[15:49] stop the intelligence agencies from

[15:51] eavesdropping in the future.

[15:53] >> I think we'll have a mechanism in the

[15:55] future whereby our own country security

[15:57] can be preserved. Adequate intelligence

[15:59] can be derived and the rights of our

[16:03] citizens and also foreigners in our

[16:05] country can be preserved. All Americans

[16:08] uh particularly in recent times have

[16:10] been very much aware of the abuses in

[16:13] the area of the right to privacy and the

[16:15] abuses of the electronic devices and

[16:18] violating uh the privacy of American

[16:20] individuals

[16:22] and uh I believe that this important

[16:25] piece of legislation uh can really

[16:27] remedy uh that particular abuse of the

[16:30] past.

[16:32] >> I think that this legisl this bill is

[16:35] vitally

[16:39] have gotten together. Now, some of you

[16:43] might know I'm very partial to the FBI

[16:46] and they are in they tell me they are

[16:48] supporting this bill. Thank you.

[16:54] The proposal would require a warrant

[16:56] only when the easedropping is inside the

[16:58] United States. It would not restrict

[17:00] electronic surveillance of Americans

[17:02] abroad. The administration says it will

[17:04] next try to work out another compromise

[17:07] covering electronic surveillance

[17:08] overseas. Ford Row and NBC News at the

[17:11] White House.

[17:13] A 17-year-old girl in South Carolina

[17:15] died last month of swine flu, but

[17:18] federal health officials said they did

[17:20] not think her infection had spread to

[17:22] anyone else. The Food and Drug

[17:25] Administration invited public opinion on

[17:27] its restrictions on saccharine and it

[17:30] got some agreement and some

[17:31] disagreement. Here's Robert Bazelle in

[17:34] Washington.

[17:38] >> Several dozen demonstrators opposed to

[17:40] the Saccharine ban came to Washington

[17:41] from Atlanta today on a special train.

[17:44] Their trip was sponsored by soft drink

[17:46] companies and other manufacturers of

[17:48] Saccharine products. They went to the

[17:50] hearing at HW headquarters where Food

[17:53] and Drug Administration Commissioner

[17:54] Donald Kennedy and several members of

[17:56] his staff listened all day to testimony

[17:59] on the proposed ban. Most speakers said

[18:02] products containing saccharine should

[18:04] stay on the market.

[18:06] >> One of the most important factors that

[18:07] has kept me on my diet has been the

[18:09] availability of saccharine and diet soft

[18:12] drinks and other foods and beverages

[18:14] that contain saccharine. I believe that

[18:16] saccharine serves a real need and

[18:18] purpose both by itself and as an

[18:21] ingredient in diet sodas and other

[18:23] products.

[18:24] >> A few witnesses supported the FDA

[18:26] action. While many have suggested in

[18:29] recent weeks that sacchrine is important

[18:30] for weigh control, no scientific

[18:33] evidence exists to support this

[18:34] statement. As the demonstrators from

[18:37] Atlanta left the hearing, some said they

[18:38] felt they hadn't accomplished very much.

[18:42] The hearings here have so far provided

[18:44] little new information in the

[18:45] controversy over saccharine. So, it

[18:47] would appear almost certain that the FDA

[18:49] will go ahead with its proposed ban on

[18:51] saccharine and packaged foods and

[18:53] beverages later this summer. Robert

[18:55] Biselle, NBC News, Washington.

[18:58] >> Oakland, California elected its first

[19:01] black mayor, Lionel Wilson. He is a

[19:03] judge. He's 62, a moderate Democrat, and

[19:06] he beat a law and order Republican.

[19:09] Last Friday, we had a little news here

[19:11] about a trucking company in Oklahoma

[19:13] that hired a woman driver and got

[19:15] complaints from the male drivers wives

[19:18] didn't want their husbands on those long

[19:20] all-night drives with her in a cab. The

[19:23] wives quoted from scripture about lust

[19:25] in the heart leading to temptation.

[19:28] Well, today the woman driver has been

[19:30] laid off along with others. The company

[19:32] said business was slow, her seniority

[19:34] was low, and lust and temptation had

[19:37] nothing to do with it.

[19:42] Have you ever gotten the uh 5:00

[19:45] surprise?

[19:46] >> $100 for a water pump?

[19:49] >> Well, the radiator was all plugged up,

[19:51] too. I thought you just want me to go

[19:52] ahead and set it right.

[19:53] >> Misunderstandings can happen. Avoid them

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[20:12] >> Hey Pete Rose, what's a man really want

[20:15] from his aftershave? No fancy perfumes

[20:19] or fancy bottles

[20:22] or fancy prices. Uh-uh. Man wants to

[20:26] smell like a man. That's why I like Aqua

[20:28] Velva. And now Aqua Velva's got the Pete

[20:30] Rose World Series vacation sweep stakes

[20:32] going. Get the details on the box. You

[20:35] can be a winner.

[20:36] >> You know Pete, there really is something

[20:38] about an Aqua Velva man.

[20:43] Terrific coffee. But I can't drink this.

[20:46] >> Yes, you can.

[20:48] >> No, I can't. I want decaffeinated.

[20:50] >> Yes, you can. It's Brim decaffeinated.

[20:52] >> No, I can't. This tastes too good to be

[20:54] decaffeinated.

[20:55] >> Well, you can get good taste in

[20:57] decaffeinated coffee with Brim. Just

[20:59] taste its rich ground flavor.

[21:01] >> Brim is delicious. Can I have another

[21:03] cup?

[21:03] >> No, you can't. You'll miss your train.

[21:06] >> Brim tastes like fresh ground coffee. It

[21:08] tastes so good you won't believe it's

[21:10] decaffeinated.

[21:12] >> Big auctions today on two continents.

[21:15] The first in England at Menmore. The

[21:17] Earl of Roseberry was selling off

[21:19] everything in the house, if you can call

[21:21] that a house, because he said he needed

[21:24] money to pay the taxes. It was a huge

[21:26] sale with some antique treasures and

[21:28] buyers came from around the world.

[21:30] Here's George Montgomery at Metmore.

[21:35] The seventh Earl of Rosebury was

[21:37] auctioning off almost 4,000 pieces of

[21:39] furniture and other items from his

[21:41] Mintmore Towers stately home. Americans,

[21:45] Europeans, and Middle Easterners turned

[21:47] up for what was built as the biggest

[21:49] household furnishing sale this century.

[21:52] One American collector arrived in real

[21:54] style. For the international crowd, a

[21:57] computer board recorded bids in seven

[21:59] currencies. Today, the auction took him

[22:02] $3 million, and it has eight more days

[22:05] to run.

[22:06] >> Lord Rosebury was asked if he had any

[22:08] regrets about selling his heirlooms.

[22:11] >> No, we didn't have we hadn't got enough

[22:13] space to keep them all, and I certainly

[22:14] can't keep up two stately homes, and if

[22:17] we tried to, I would probably lose both

[22:18] fairly soon. So, one is quite enough.

[22:22] >> There was only one big disappointment

[22:24] for the auctioneers. They had expected

[22:26] this 18th century French desk to break

[22:28] the record for a piece of furniture,

[22:31] £240,000

[22:32] or £412,000.

[22:34] It did so.

[22:36] >> All done. 280,000.

[22:38] >> That's £481,000.

[22:41] But Lord Roseberry had set a higher

[22:43] minimum price, so the desk went unsold.

[22:46] In the days ahead, people will bid on

[22:48] items like three huge lanterns from the

[22:50] Venetian do's barge and a portrait of

[22:53] Madame Pompador, which alone could bring

[22:56] $700,000.

[22:58] The entire sale could raise more than $7

[23:00] million, presumably enough to bail Lord

[23:03] Rosebury out of his tax troubles. George

[23:06] Montgomery, NBC News, meant more

[23:09] England.

[23:10] And in this country, they auction off

[23:12] the presidential yacht because President

[23:14] Carter thought it a needless

[23:16] extravagance. Years ago, Winston

[23:18] Churchill was taken out to catch the

[23:20] breeze on the president's yacht. And as

[23:23] he lounged on the deck with cigars and

[23:25] brandy, he said, "I believe that in my

[23:27] life I have drunk enough brandy to float

[23:30] this yacht." Well, in spite of such

[23:32] great historic events as that, they sold

[23:35] it. Here are two reports.

[23:38] The auction was held at the Federal

[23:40] Property Disposal Ship Sales Office in

[23:42] Middletown, Rhode Island.

[23:44] >> Bidder number one,

[23:47] >> $20,7.

[23:50] >> There were 174 sealed bids for the

[23:52] presidential yacht. Not all of the bids

[23:54] were serious. There were 13 bids of $25

[23:58] or less, including two bids of $1 and

[24:01] two bids of $17.76.

[24:04] Eight biders took the trouble to fill

[24:06] out the government form, but offered no

[24:07] price for the Sequoia. But many bidders

[24:10] were serious, and for a while, Gerald

[24:12] Chai Chester of West Hartford,

[24:13] Connecticut, was the apparent winner

[24:15] until one of the last bids was opened.

[24:19] >> $286,000.

[24:24] >> The apparent high bidder was the Leisure

[24:26] Craft Corporation of Rhode Island and

[24:28] Florida. A spokesman said the company

[24:30] isn't sure what it will do with the

[24:32] yacht because it hadn't expected to win

[24:34] it.

[24:36] >> Lee McCarthy, NBC News, Middletown,

[24:38] Rhode Island.

[24:41] At the Washington Navyyard this morning,

[24:43] the Sequoia took its last cruise under

[24:45] White House ownership. A move from one

[24:48] birth to another. The sale of the yacht

[24:51] was a sad occasion for the crew, which

[24:52] consisted of 14 officers and seammen.

[24:55] But the captain said the new owner can

[24:57] manage with fewer people.

[25:00] >> It actually only takes about three

[25:02] people to drive the yacht. Uh we use the

[25:05] other people when we're getting underway

[25:07] and particularly when we make our

[25:08] landing so that we can handle all of the

[25:10] mooring lines for tying up the yacht as

[25:12] we approach the pier and we want to do

[25:14] that very smoothly. Of course, Captain

[25:16] Beich commanded the Sequoia during the

[25:19] administrations of President Nixon and

[25:21] Ford when the yacht was used for

[25:23] pleasure cruises and historic meetings.

[25:26] The new owner is buying the prestige

[25:28] that goes with the Sequoia, but all its

[25:31] presidential trappings have been

[25:32] removed. The deck furniture, the

[25:34] presidential seal, the White House

[25:36] crystal, and china. The Sequoia's wheel

[25:40] had also been removed to a Navy museum

[25:42] and the dining table and presidential

[25:44] bed to Camp David, but were reinstalled

[25:47] when someone pointed out that they were

[25:49] included in the Sequoia sale brochure.

[25:52] The new owner should know that the yacht

[25:54] gets only one mile to a gallon of diesel

[25:57] fuel.

[25:59] How much will it cost the new owner to

[26:01] run the Sequoia?

[26:03] Well, as JP Morgan used to say, if you

[26:06] have to ask, you can't afford it.

[26:12] Irving R. Lavine, NBC News, aboard the

[26:15] Sequoia.

[26:20] Thank you and good night for all of us

[26:22] at NBC News.

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