NBC Nightly News - 1977-09-06 (new theme)

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[0:00] B Nashville.

[0:06] >> This is NBC Nightly News

[0:09] with John Chancellor in New York and

[0:12] David Brinkley in Washington.

[0:16] Good evening. This was not a day that

[0:19] Bert Lance, the White House budget

[0:20] director, will remember with any great

[0:22] pleasure. The head of a House

[0:24] Investigating Committee said he had used

[0:26] one of his Georgia banks as a family

[0:28] play pen. President Carter had two

[0:31] chances to say a word in defense of his

[0:33] money borrowing budget director and

[0:35] passed up both of them. Here are two

[0:37] reports.

[0:40] At the White House, there was no ringing

[0:42] defense for Bert Lance. 19 days ago,

[0:45] President Carter said, "Bert, I'm proud

[0:46] of you." But today, after his meeting

[0:48] with Panama's President Torios, the

[0:50] words were different.

[0:52] the first L could resign or step.

[0:55] >> We'll see that about that later.

[0:58] >> Later in the day, Mr. Carter had another

[1:00] chance to defend his old friend.

[1:02] >> Reporters wanted to know the president's

[1:03] reaction to Senator Ribbikov's call for

[1:05] Lance's resignation and the prospect for

[1:07] the Senate hearings. But I I've

[1:09] responded

[1:10] with appreciation to uh Senators Rubikov

[1:14] and Percy for their uh early convening

[1:19] of the Senate committee for an

[1:21] expeditious

[1:22] presentation of all the allegations that

[1:25] have been made against Bert Lance and

[1:27] for giving him a chance to respond to

[1:29] them. And what I want is for it to be

[1:31] concluded quickly, for all the uh facts

[1:34] to be presented to the American people

[1:36] and to the Congress and to me.

[1:38] >> Press Secretary Jodie Powell, no longer

[1:41] sounding like the point man for the

[1:42] administration's defense of Lance, said

[1:44] he didn't want to pass judgment on the

[1:46] new allegations, in part because they

[1:48] have been referred to the Justice

[1:49] Department. Powell said the White House

[1:51] still supports Lance, but he said it

[1:53] more cautiously than in the past. And

[1:55] elsewhere in the White House, other aids

[1:57] were not talking about whether Lance

[1:58] would go, but when. Bob Jameson, NBC

[2:01] News. At the White House

[2:04] last night, the belleaguered Bert Lance

[2:06] and his wife were secluded at their

[2:07] expensive home after cutting short of

[2:09] vacation to meet with Mr. Carter. They

[2:11] had no comments. Bert Lance looked like

[2:14] a man trying to hide.

[2:19] 6:45 this morning. When his official car

[2:22] arrived, Lance seemed more irritated,

[2:23] less jolly than usual.

[2:26] >> I'm going to appear before the Senate

[2:28] committee and answer any and all charges

[2:30] that have been leveled at me. I happen

[2:32] to think that that ought to be the

[2:33] American way. And I think the American

[2:35] people believe in a sense of fairness

[2:37] and they want me to have my chance to

[2:39] answer the charges and that's exactly

[2:40] what I intend to do and then get about

[2:42] back about the business of running OM.

[2:45] >> Okay. Another close friend of the

[2:47] president suggested to me today that the

[2:48] Lance case now poses such a problem for

[2:51] Mr. Carter, that Lance should quit. But

[2:53] Lance said he does not feel his case has

[2:55] hurt Mr. Carter. 6:56 a.m. He arrived at

[2:59] the executive office building. No one

[3:01] met him. At noon, he went out to lunch

[3:04] alone.

[3:07] Less than an hour later, he drove back

[3:09] alone. So far as we know, the president

[3:12] did not see him or talk to him today.

[3:15] So Bert Lance spent almost the entire

[3:17] day in his office out of the public

[3:19] view, but not out of the public mind.

[3:24] So at the end of the day, Bert Lance

[3:26] went home about 5:00. He still had a job

[3:29] and his vow to have his day in court.

[3:32] Even though support for Lance began to

[3:33] crumble among some people at the White

[3:35] House. Tom Pettit, NBC News at the old

[3:38] Executive Office Building in Washington.

[3:41] >> And in the Congress, they were gearing

[3:43] up for Mr. Lance, one Senate committee

[3:46] embarrassed because it gave him not long

[3:48] ago what one member called the Good

[3:50] Housekeeping seal of approval. And one

[3:53] House subcommittee whose chairman was on

[3:55] the war path today. Irving Ar Lavine has

[3:57] that story.

[3:59] >> August 18th, 1977. At a House banking

[4:02] subcommittee, Robert Bloom, deputy

[4:04] controller of the currency, revealed

[4:06] that Lance's use of his Georgia Bank

[4:08] airplane for campaign purposes, is being

[4:11] investigated by the Justice Department

[4:13] to see if there are grounds for

[4:15] prosecution. The subcommittee chairman

[4:17] said that Lance also misused his

[4:20] position as bank president in other ways

[4:22] when he campaigned for governor of

[4:24] Georgia in 1974.

[4:27] >> They used the bank's computers to put

[4:29] put out computerized letters. They took

[4:31] bank personnel out. No wonder the bank

[4:34] had problems. And put them on the

[4:36] campaign payroll to work in the

[4:38] campaign. They used it to finance the

[4:40] campaign interestf free. Besides use of

[4:43] the bank airplane, the Justice

[4:45] Department also was investigating

[4:47] Lance's overdrafts from his bank account

[4:49] during the campaign, which according to

[4:52] charts amounted to almost half a million

[4:54] dollars at one time. In the Senate, the

[4:57] Government Operations Committee was

[4:59] supposed to question Lance day after

[5:00] tomorrow, but the committee chairman

[5:03] said Lance has hired a Washington

[5:05] lawyer, Clark Clifford, former defense

[5:07] secretary, and they want more time to

[5:10] prepare.

[5:10] >> There has been uh such great publicity

[5:13] on all these charges that Mr. Lance

[5:17] wants the opportunity to publicly come

[5:21] before this committee to refute each and

[5:24] every charge that has been made publicly

[5:26] uh in the press. Uh he feels very

[5:29] strongly that he should be given this

[5:31] chance. The big mystery still is what

[5:34] new information has come to light that

[5:37] caused Senators Ribbeoff and Percy to

[5:40] recommend to President Carter that Bert

[5:42] Lance resign or at least be suspended

[5:45] while charges against him are being

[5:47] investigated.

[5:49] So far at least no one who knows is

[5:52] saying what the new charges are. Irving

[5:55] R. Leavine NBC News at the capital.

[6:00] About a month and a half ago, Senator

[6:01] Ribikoff was defending Lance. The

[6:03] senator said then that the budget

[6:05] director had been the victim of a smear

[6:07] by the press. Today, however, meeting

[6:10] with reporters, Ribbeikov was asked

[6:11] about that accusation. He said as of

[6:14] now, he would say that he'd been wrong.

[6:16] David, on our segment three tonight,

[6:19] Brian Ross reports how the gangsters on

[6:21] the waterfronts are so powerful that

[6:23] when they hijack a cargo, the shippers

[6:26] are afraid to tell the police.

[6:33] Right in the camera.

[6:35] >> Hey there, Bright Eyes. Maybe you needed

[6:38] Nightall last night.

[6:42] >> Maybe you had trouble falling asleep.

[6:44] Well, that's what Night Tall is all

[6:46] about. On those occasional nights when

[6:49] you do have trouble, Night Tall can help

[6:51] make you drowsy so you can fall asleep.

[6:54] Come on, America.

[6:56] Stop yawning. For occasional

[6:58] sleeplessness, remember night.

[7:04] >> I was so embarrassed. Those brown age

[7:06] spots made me so ashamed of my hands, I

[7:08] had lunch with my gloves on. Then a

[7:10] friend recommended Essoterica, a

[7:13] medicated cream that works below the

[7:15] skin surface to stop those

[7:17] discolorations and fade them out. I used

[7:19] Esoterica daily as directed. In six

[7:22] weeks, my skin was clearer and more

[7:24] youthful looking. Essoica works.

[7:28] >> Esoterica fades embarrassing age spots.

[7:39] >> Come on, Har. Come on. We're getting our

[7:41] picture taken.

[7:43] >> Special moments, times of your life

[7:45] you'll want to remember in pictures.

[7:48] >> Smile, Harry. Smile. To help make those

[7:51] pictures look as good as they can, make

[7:54] sure Kodak Paper is behind them. If you

[7:56] don't see these words, it isn't Kodak

[7:58] Paper. Just look for this sign when you

[8:01] get your pictures. Kodak Paper for a

[8:04] good look at the times of your life.

[8:06] >> Wasn't that fun?

[8:09] Tongan Park, the South Korean

[8:11] businessman who made so many friends in

[8:13] official Washington, has been indicted,

[8:15] charged with conspiracy to bribe some of

[8:18] them and with other criminal matters.

[8:20] James Poke has the story from

[8:22] Washington.

[8:25] Indictment charges Tongsun Park on 36

[8:28] counts of conspiracy, bribery, fraud,

[8:31] and racketeering. If he is convicted,

[8:33] Park could be sentenced to as many as

[8:35] 202 years in prison.

[8:38] Although no congressman was charged, the

[8:41] indictment does mention 25 who got money

[8:44] from Park. The key figure is former

[8:47] California Congressman Richard Hannah on

[8:50] the right in this picture with Park. The

[8:52] indictment says Park bribed Hannah,

[8:55] paying him more than $75,000

[8:58] as part of a scheme to influence

[9:00] Congress on rice deals and military aid

[9:03] to South Korea. The charges also said

[9:06] Park gave $20,000 to Louisiana Governor

[9:09] Edwin Edwards and his wife, twice as

[9:12] much as Edwards had previously admitted.

[9:15] At today's news conference, Attorney

[9:17] General Griffin Bell enlisted President

[9:19] Carter's help to try to persuade South

[9:22] Korea to force Park to return to stand

[9:25] trial. But Bell shied away from saying

[9:28] whether any American congressman would

[9:30] ever be prosecuted.

[9:31] >> The investigation is continuing. This is

[9:34] the first indictment. Whe there'll be

[9:36] others remains to be seen.

[9:39] >> But other Justice Department prosecutors

[9:41] said more indictments are likely later

[9:43] this month. James Pulp, NBC News,

[9:47] Washington.

[9:48] The second act in Washington's newest

[9:51] drama of high motion, ranker, and

[9:53] disagreement. When President Carter

[9:55] welcomed to the White House Panama's

[9:57] General Omar Tus here for the formal

[10:00] signing of the new Panama Canal Treaty

[10:02] tomorrow, it was all smiles and

[10:05] cordiality and in private they talked

[10:07] for more than an hour. John officials

[10:11] from Panama and the United States

[10:13] initialed the treaty today and made its

[10:14] contents public. It is 62 pages long and

[10:18] our correspondent in Panama, Fred

[10:20] Francis, has some of the details.

[10:23] >> There are 10,000 American troops in the

[10:24] canal zone, and every one of them is

[10:26] going to stay right here. The only thing

[10:28] the new treaty does is take away a

[10:30] little of the military's land. Under the

[10:33] treaty, these troops won't have the

[10:34] massive land area now available for

[10:36] jungle training, but the generals don't

[10:38] seem distressed by that because they

[10:40] never used most of the canal zones land

[10:42] anyway. These troops will also defend

[10:45] the neutrality of the canal. Under a

[10:47] separate neutrality agreement, any

[10:49] nation can use the waterway, even if

[10:51] that nation is at war with America or

[10:53] Panama. No one is sure how the

[10:55] Panameanian people are going to react

[10:57] when they learn the American troops will

[10:59] stay. They may not be too upset because

[11:01] they're more concerned about Panama

[11:03] Canal jobs. The men holding the canal

[11:06] jobs now are Americans. The new treaty

[11:08] provides that when these men resign or

[11:10] retire, Panameanians will get first

[11:13] preference. Although the American jobs

[11:15] are protected, many of these people may

[11:17] leave before retirement because after a

[11:20] 30-month transition period, the American

[11:22] policemen here will be replaced by

[11:24] Panameanian National Guard. The presence

[11:27] of the National Guard frightens American

[11:29] citizens here. And when they have to

[11:31] answer to Panameanian justice, they may

[11:33] decide that a secure job is not enough

[11:35] to make up for the loss of American

[11:37] civil liberties. Fred Francis, NBC News,

[11:40] Panama.

[11:44] >> For the Honafi Muslims who held all

[11:46] those hostages in Washington last March,

[11:49] injuring several and killing one, their

[11:52] sentences ranged from 28 to 231 years in

[11:56] prison, said their leader. Allah will be

[11:59] the judge of us all.

[12:01] Justice Brennan of the Supreme Court

[12:03] temporarily stops Kent State University

[12:06] from building a gym on the land where

[12:08] seven four students were killed 7 years

[12:11] ago. The college president said he could

[12:13] not see that the court had power to tell

[12:16] the school where it could build a gym.

[12:19] G. Gordon Litty, the only Watergate

[12:21] burglar still in prison, got out today

[12:23] for a final hearing on his parole.

[12:26] Details from Carl Stern.

[12:28] >> The man who has been in prison longer

[12:30] than any other Watergate figure arrived

[12:32] at the courthouse to learn that this

[12:34] would be his last night in prison. At a

[12:37] hearing, US Magistrate William Asi

[12:39] agreed to let G. Gordon Litty postpone

[12:41] payment of a $40,000 fine after Litty

[12:44] listed debts of $337,000

[12:47] mostly for legal fees and assets of only

[12:50] $310. His wife, who supported their five

[12:54] children for the four years, four months

[12:55] that Lyd was imprisoned, was the only

[12:57] family member present. Assistant US

[13:00] Attorney Joseph Samini closely

[13:02] questioned Litty's financial statement,

[13:04] but did not oppose postponement of the

[13:06] fine. Litty said he'd received some

[13:08] checks in prison, one for $100, which

[13:11] his wife used when the electricity was

[13:12] cut off, and another check for $1,000,

[13:15] which Ly said he returned uncashed.

[13:18] Judge Asi then approved Littyy's release

[13:20] from prison tomorrow in Danbury,

[13:21] Connecticut. Litty's sentence was

[13:23] shortened last April by President

[13:25] Carter.

[13:29] Here the US Marshals said simply Litty

[13:32] doesn't talk much. His refusal to

[13:35] testify about Watergate in Congress or

[13:37] in court is one reason Litty spent so

[13:39] much time in prison. Carl Stern, NBC

[13:43] News, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

[13:46] Dong Xiaoing, who is the vice premier of

[13:48] China, said today that Secretary of

[13:50] State Vance's recent trip to Ping

[13:52] resulted in a setback to efforts toward

[13:54] normalization of relations. Dung in an

[13:57] interview reported by the Associated

[13:58] Press said that former President Ford in

[14:01] 1975 promised the Chinese he would break

[14:04] formal relations with Taiwan. Now, said

[14:07] Dong, the Carter administration is

[14:09] offering to set up full relations with

[14:10] Ping along with the liaison office on

[14:13] Taiwan. and that he said has been

[14:15] rejected. Supreme Court Justice Brennan

[14:18] said to no today to several state

[14:20] attorneys general who wanted him to stop

[14:22] the signing of the Panama Treaty Canal

[14:25] Panama Canal Treaty tomorrow. Bjornborg,

[14:28] the favorite, dropped out of the US

[14:30] Tennis Open today after dropping two

[14:32] straight sets to Dick Stockton and

[14:34] losing the first game of the third.

[14:36] Borg's bad right shoulder finally got

[14:38] too painful for him to continue and he

[14:40] defaulted.

[14:42] Women who take birth control pills and

[14:44] then stop taking them may get surprised.

[14:46] Harvard researchers say they're twice as

[14:48] likely to have twins as women who have

[14:50] never taken the pill at all. David,

[14:54] a truck pulled up to the governor's

[14:56] mansion in Montgomery, Alabama today and

[14:58] loaded aboard Mrs. Cornelia Wallace's

[15:01] personal items. She was moving out.

[15:03] Couldn't take it anymore. She said the

[15:05] vulgarity, threats, and abuse, as she

[15:07] put it. She and Governor Wallace have

[15:10] had marital troubles for some time. He

[15:12] has a lawyer working on a divorce. She

[15:14] said today she has struggled to save her

[15:17] marriage, but without success.

[15:29] When he gets that, they get it in hush

[15:33] puppies. And he really knows how to

[15:36] live, but he does it in hush puppy. Cool

[15:39] every day and night

[15:42] puppy. Cool hush puppies and special

[15:46] brushed pig skin that lets me breathe.

[15:48] Yeah, breathe.

[15:50] >> Now you can't be cool when your feet are

[15:52] up.

[15:59] >> Do you have anything for headaches?

[16:00] >> Yeah. Take two of these.

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[16:06] >> Doesn't matter. Arthritis pain formula

[16:08] is great for occasional headaches, too.

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[16:11] >> Also relieves headaches. Must be strong.

[16:14] >> You bet it is. APF has more pain

[16:16] reliever in it than most headache

[16:18] tablets. Arthritis pain formula.

[16:21] >> Hey, thanks. Arthritis pain formula is

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[16:26] headaches, too.

[16:35] This is my husband and this big hunk of

[16:37] a man is the light of my life.

[16:40] >> And this is some terrific woman. All 105

[16:42] lbs of earth. And with the kids and the

[16:45] house and your job, I just don't know

[16:47] how you do it.

[16:48] >> Well, I take real good care of myself. I

[16:50] get my rest, exercise,

[16:52] >> and you take Geratl. Geratl to make sure

[16:55] you get enough iron and some very

[16:57] important vitamins. Take a look at what

[16:59] Geratl can do for you.

[17:02] >> Geratl everyday.

[17:05] >> Beginning this evening, we plan to use

[17:07] this portion of the nightly news, which

[17:09] we call segment three, for investigative

[17:12] reporting on a regular basis. There are

[17:14] some stories which take a little more

[17:16] time to report, a little more time to

[17:18] tell. Tonight, the first of two special

[17:20] reports on what federal investigators

[17:22] have learned about organized crime, the

[17:25] International Long Shoreman's

[17:26] Association, and the waterfront along

[17:28] the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Our

[17:30] reporter, Brian Ross.

[17:35] >> Tractor trailer is now leaving.

[17:38] >> This is a truck hijacking in progress.

[17:41] Police in Dade County, Florida, made

[17:43] these pictures as part of an undercover

[17:45] investigation of organized crime

[17:47] activity at the Port of Miami. This

[17:50] doesn't look like a crime, and that's

[17:52] because the hijacking was well arranged

[17:54] by insiders.

[17:56] >> Someone has picked out the right truck,

[17:58] provided the keys, and made it very

[18:00] easy.

[18:01] >> You've hijacked trucks on the Fears of

[18:03] New York.

[18:04] >> Yes, I do. This man says officers of the

[18:06] long shoreman's union helped him hijack

[18:08] trucks for the mafia family that

[18:10] controls the Brooklyn docks in New York

[18:12] City.

[18:13] >> Well, they have access to all the bill

[18:14] latens. So, what's on the truck, what

[18:16] shipping, what company, what uh what

[18:18] carrier is taking, what load to where,

[18:20] what destination they're going now. They

[18:23] the only ones that could have

[18:24] information. They'll tell you which ones

[18:26] to take.

[18:28] >> On a typical working day, there are

[18:30] hundreds of millions of dollars worth of

[18:32] cargo on the docks of this country.

[18:34] The men who load and unload this cargo

[18:36] are members of the International Long

[18:38] Shoreman's Association, the ILA.

[18:42] Investigators say it is members of this

[18:44] union who spot the most valuable cargo

[18:46] for the mob and leave it in places where

[18:48] it can be stolen easily.

[18:51] This is an operation controlled for the

[18:52] most part by organized crime. One

[18:54] family, isn't it? Cambino family.

[18:56] >> Yes.

[18:56] >> And union officials are the people who

[18:57] are spotting the important loads.

[18:59] >> Yes.

[19:00] >> They work for the organized crime

[19:01] family.

[19:02] >> Of course.

[19:04] And NBC News found that in port after

[19:06] port, there is little to stand in the

[19:08] mob's way. In New Orleans, one policeman

[19:12] is assigned to patrol three miles of

[19:13] waterfront. In Savannah, Georgia, cargo

[19:16] is stacked outdoors, unguarded. In

[19:19] Miami, police found that shippers won't

[19:21] report losses and often discourage

[19:23] police from investigating thefts.

[19:26] >> We found intimidation or extortion.

[19:28] People have had their legs broken. Other

[19:29] people have been killed. Detectives say

[19:32] shippers won't crack down because they

[19:34] fear the ILA and the mob.

[19:36] >> At the stage it is now, organized crime

[19:39] can can engender more fear in threats

[19:42] than law enforcement can. And

[19:44] effectively they keep them quieter than

[19:46] we can keep them talking. A 2-year FBI

[19:49] undercover investigation of the

[19:50] International Long Shoreman's

[19:52] Association, cenamed Operation Unrackck,

[19:55] shows the union is controlled by three

[19:57] mafia families, the Genevese and Gambino

[20:00] families of New York and the Marcelo

[20:02] family of New Orleans.

[20:06] The boss of that family, Carlos Marcelo,

[20:08] the man on the left, has appeared twice

[20:11] before a Miami federal grand jury

[20:13] investigating the Long Shoreman's Union.

[20:15] Both times, Marcelo refused to answer

[20:17] questions about dock racketeering. He

[20:20] says he is a tomato salesman.

[20:23] In New York, the FBI got a court order

[20:26] to wiretap the phones at this lumber

[20:28] company near the docks in Brooklyn.

[20:31] The company, which sells lumber to

[20:33] shippers, is run by relatives of the

[20:35] president of the Long Shoreman's Union

[20:37] in Brooklyn.

[20:40] He is Anthony Scuttle, one of the most

[20:42] powerful men in the International Long

[20:44] Shoreman's Association. In some circles

[20:47] in New York, Scott is a respected labor

[20:49] leader who has been appointed to a

[20:51] number of positions in city and state

[20:53] government. But NBC News has learned

[20:55] that Scott is a major target of the

[20:57] federal investigation of ILA ties to

[21:00] organized crime.

[21:02] In a 1976 confidential report to the

[21:05] governor of Florida, a joint federal and

[21:07] state task force on organized crime

[21:10] listed Anthony Scato as a cappo, a

[21:13] captain in the Carlo Gambino mafia

[21:15] family. Scott has denied any ties to

[21:18] organized crime. He refused to be

[21:20] interviewed by NBC News.

[21:23] Despite its long history of corruption,

[21:25] the ILA has been able to play a major

[21:27] role in Democratic Party politics.

[21:30] >> I see a nation in a future that's

[21:31] strong. When Jimmy Carter came to

[21:33] Brooklyn last fall to campaign, it was

[21:35] Anthony Skylow who organized the rally

[21:37] for Carter.

[21:38] >> Hundreds of Long Sherman were ordered by

[21:40] the Union to leave their jobs and report

[21:42] to the Carter rally.

[21:46] >> And Scott presented Carter with a

[21:47] present, a gold colored cargo hook.

[21:51] All of this took place at the same time

[21:53] Scott was under investigation and agents

[21:55] were following him. Carter may not have

[21:58] known that, but if federal investigators

[22:01] are right, the mob's domination of the

[22:03] docks and the International Long

[22:04] Shoreman's Union gives it influence in

[22:07] many important places. Brian Ross, NBC

[22:10] News, New York.

[22:22] You know, if cars had to go through

[22:25] weigh stations, you discover that every

[22:27] year aluminum is making them lighter.

[22:29] It's done the same for trucks for years.

[22:32] Take my cab, Reynolds aluminum, because

[22:35] it weighs less. It saves me lots of fuel

[22:37] and plenty on brakes and tires, too.

[22:40] that trailer there. Reynolds corrosion

[22:42] resistant aluminum alloys make it so

[22:44] tough it'll last hundreds of thousands

[22:46] of miles and so light it'll carry two

[22:48] tons more payload than the older

[22:50] conventional trailers. Every year the

[22:52] cars I carry contain more aluminum. This

[22:55] year about 100 lb each. That replaces

[22:58] almost 250 lb of heavy steel.

[23:02] So next time you pass a weigh station,

[23:04] remember aluminum. What it's done for

[23:06] trucks, it's now doing for you. You're

[23:09] okay.

[23:12] >> Reynolds Aluminum. Conserving our

[23:14] resources and energy.

[23:25] >> Marian, look what I just got for Amy.

[23:28] >> Pretty. But how's the new mother?

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[23:54] >> In Washington, the National Education

[23:56] Association says school openings this

[23:58] year are fairly peaceful. Very few

[24:00] teachers on strike. Tokyo, according to

[24:03] a new survey, is the most expensive city

[24:06] in the world. The cost of living is 43%

[24:09] more than New York's, the highest in

[24:11] Europe, Stockholm, Sweden. In Campala,

[24:15] Uganda, Edidy Amin again, he says 12

[24:18] Ugandan officials plotted to overthrow

[24:21] him and so he has ordered all 12 of them

[24:23] shot on Friday using their own weapons.

[24:26] Jud,

[24:28] >> what follows now is a small visual essay

[24:31] on parental love. It concerns a baby

[24:34] named Naomi born in Bristol, England a

[24:36] few months ago. Her mother Delilah and

[24:38] her father Samson. They are gorillas in

[24:41] the zoo. What is special about them is

[24:43] this. Normally male gorillas tend to be

[24:46] very rough with their mates and their

[24:47] offspring. But when Naomi was born

[24:50] prematurely, her father watched the

[24:52] birth. And the zookeepers think that

[24:54] experience changed his attitude. The

[24:56] British Broadcasting Corporation has

[24:58] been observing this and they set some of

[25:00] their pictures to music. What you'll see

[25:02] first is the baby with its mother.

[26:59] And that's our program for this evening.

[27:01] Good night from New York

[27:03] >> and from Point South. Good night for all

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