CBS Morning News - 1979-01-09
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT3539S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Morning News - 1979-01-09” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-07-25.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:02] Good morning. Iran's new civilian
[0:04] government cannot get itself together
[0:06] and there is worry now it may be coming
[0:08] apart. Vietnam now claims that its
[0:11] troops and its proxy Cambodian rebels
[0:13] now control all of Cambodia.
[0:16] >> The Vietnamese used American weapons and
[0:18] tactics to crush the Cambodian
[0:20] communists. And three Cuban exiles go on
[0:23] trial today charged with killing former
[0:25] Chilean diplomat Orlando Letoier. Coming
[0:28] up, we'll have some notes from Hollywood
[0:30] on the start of a landmark legal trial.
[0:32] Lee Marvin versus Lee Marvin's home
[0:34] companion,
[0:36] >> and we'll hear that inflation is causing
[0:38] government officials to have second
[0:39] thoughts about making mass transit
[0:42] accessible to the handicapped.
[0:45] >> It's Tuesday, January 9th, and this is
[0:48] the CBS Morning News with Richard
[0:51] Thrrell in New York and Leslie Stall in
[0:54] Washington.
[0:55] Efforts to set up a new civilian
[0:57] government in Iran have suffered a
[0:59] serious setback today. General Faradin
[1:02] Jam, who was named war minister in
[1:04] Premier Shapur Baktiar's 4-day old
[1:06] cabinet, has decided now not to join the
[1:08] government. He and Baktiar reportedly
[1:11] could not agree on key changes in Iran's
[1:13] military establishment. The breakdown in
[1:15] talks has now led to speculation about a
[1:17] right-wing coup there. No major violence
[1:20] reported today, but Tehran is still shut
[1:22] down in the aftermath of a general
[1:24] strike. And the sha is still on the
[1:26] scene. His plans for a long vacation
[1:28] elsewhere still indefinite. Leslie,
[1:31] >> after remaining non-committal on whether
[1:33] the sha should leave the country, the