NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-12
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[0:06] This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Brocoy
[0:10] in Jerusalem, Roger Mud in Washington,
[0:13] and commentary by John Chancellor.
[0:16] Good evening. After weeks of generally
[0:18] muted reaction to the Middle East war,
[0:20] the White House said today in effect
[0:22] that President Reagan finally blew his
[0:23] top. They said he called Prime Minister
[0:25] Bean and in his harshest language to
[0:28] date expressed his outrage at today's
[0:30] Israeli shelling of Beirut. The shelling
[0:32] was the heaviest of the nine-week war.
[0:34] It continued until almost 4:30 in the
[0:36] afternoon Beirut time and it made
[0:38] negotiations between the PLO, the
[0:40] Lebanese, and the US physically
[0:42] dangerous. Those talks were suspended
[0:44] and are expected to resume in the
[0:45] morning. Beirut police said today
[0:47] shelling killed 128 and wounded 400. It
[0:51] is not clear what effect the president's
[0:52] phone call had on Prime Minister Bean
[0:54] because the White House knew before the
[0:56] two men talked that Israel had already
[0:58] stopped its bombing of Beirut. What is
[1:00] clear is the administration's growing
[1:02] frustration at not being able to control
[1:04] events in the Middle East. Judy Woodruff
[1:06] reports.
[1:08] The president called Prime Minister Bean
[1:10] to express what White House officials
[1:12] described as shock and outrage at
[1:14] today's attack and to warn that the
[1:16] relationship between the United States
[1:18] and Israel was at stake if the bombing
[1:20] were not stopped. Later, the White House
[1:22] made public details of the 10-minute
[1:24] conversation, saying the president
[1:26] emphasized that Israel's action had
[1:29] halted the Hhabib peace negotiations
[1:31] just when they were at the point of
[1:33] success and that the result had been
[1:35] more needless destruction and bloodshed.
[1:37] One official said Mr. Reagan called the
[1:39] Israeli response out of proportion to
[1:42] any ceasefire violation. 20 minutes
[1:44] after that call ended, Bean called Mr.
[1:47] Reagan back to say that a new ceasefire
[1:49] had been ordered. The White House also
[1:51] announced that before his call to Bean,
[1:53] the president received a call from King
[1:55] Fod of Saudi Arabia, who was also upset
[1:58] over the situation in West Beirut.
[2:01] White House officials say the president
[2:03] did not threaten Bean with any sort of
[2:05] retaliation. In fact, officials here are
[2:07] frustrated by the continuing perception
[2:09] that they are powerless to influence the
[2:12] Israelis. They believe that appeal after
[2:14] appeal to exercise restraint has fallen
[2:16] on deaf ears. and they say that today's
[2:19] decision to criticize Israel publicly
[2:21] came because the bombing seems so
[2:23] senseless at a time when a peace
[2:25] settlement seems so close. One official
[2:28] also conceded that this sort of tough
[2:30] talk comes easier to the president now
[2:33] that public opinion polls, which are
[2:35] watched closely here, show a growing
[2:37] American impatience with Israel's
[2:39] aggressiveness. Judy Woodruff, NBC News
[2:41] at the White House. Despite the White
[2:44] House disclaimers of any Reagan threats,
[2:46] Israeli radio reported today the
[2:48] president told Bean that Ambassador
[2:50] Habib would be ordered home if the
[2:52] bombing continued. Tom,
[2:55] the pressure from President Reagan had
[2:57] immediate results here in Jerusalem. The
[2:59] Beagan government suspended air strikes
[3:01] against Beirut and cracked down on
[3:03] hard-nosed defense minister Ariel
[3:05] Chiron. This showdown over the bombing
[3:07] policy has been coming all week. A
[3:10] number of leading Israeli politicians
[3:12] have been privately concerned that the
[3:14] negotiations would collapse if the air
[3:16] strikes continue and then Israel would
[3:19] be blamed.
[3:25] >> The day began with a rancerous debate in
[3:27] the Knesset when Prime Minister Bean
[3:29] appeared to defend his government's
[3:30] policies. Two communist members of the
[3:32] parliament protested so loudly they were
[3:34] removed.
[3:42] But the meaningful fireworks came later
[3:44] during a closed meeting of Bean's
[3:45] cabinet. Defense Minister Chiron
[3:47] outlined a plan for Israeli forces to
[3:49] move forward in Beirut. He said the new
[3:52] positions would make it more difficult
[3:53] for the PLO to cheat on the evacuation
[3:56] plan. Other cabinet members exploded,
[3:58] accusing Chiron of running his own war.
[4:01] They said Chiron didn't even tell Bean
[4:03] before ordering the attacks of the last
[4:05] two days. They said that Israel was
[4:07] destroying its image in the world.
[4:11] >> Through it all, Bean sat quietly, not
[4:14] defending his defense minister. Tonight,
[4:16] a source very close to the prime
[4:17] minister said Bean admires Chiron, but
[4:20] he thinks of him as a wild horse which
[4:22] needs to be ridden. And Bean wants
[4:24] President Reagan to know that he has
[4:26] this wild horse under control.
[4:30] The vote in the cabinet against Chiron
[4:32] was 15-2.
[4:35] Israel will continue to respond to PLO
[4:37] fire, but from now on, Prime Minister
[4:40] Bean will personally order the
[4:41] operations and not leave them to Defense
[4:44] Minister Chiron. Today's air strikes,
[4:47] however, were ordered by Chiron and they
[4:49] were devastating. James Compton now in
[4:52] West Beirut.
[4:58] >> Lebanon hadn't seen an attack like this
[5:00] one since the Israelis first invaded
[5:02] nine weeks ago.
[5:05] The Lebanese government said there were
[5:06] nearly 100 air raids by Israeli jets and
[5:09] estimated there were 300 killed and
[5:11] wounded.
[5:14] The most concentrated and sustained
[5:15] bombing of the war destroyed dozens of
[5:18] buildings.
[5:20] The attacks which once seemed designed
[5:22] to put pressure on the diplomatic
[5:24] process today seemed bent on destroying
[5:26] the last vestages of Palestinian
[5:28] military power in West Beirut. Bombs
[5:31] fell on the athletic stadium and on
[5:33] refugee camps. In the afternoon, heavy
[5:36] Israeli guns opened fire from positions
[5:38] in East Beirut near the dividing line
[5:40] with West Beirut. Israeli troops trying
[5:43] to push forward to the museum at the
[5:45] crossing point ran into heavy
[5:46] resistance.
[5:48] The city was virtually sealed off from
[5:50] the outside.
[5:52] Lebanese officials who have negotiated
[5:54] the proposed Palestinian withdrawal were
[5:56] bewildered by the intense Israeli
[5:58] assault. Prime Minister Shupikal was on
[6:01] said we can't understand this escalation
[6:03] when agreement has been reached. He said
[6:06] with optimism everywhere we cannot see
[6:08] any reason for the outburst of bombing
[6:10] in which thousands of tons of bombs have
[6:13] dropped on West Beirut.
[6:15] James Coffin, NBC News, West Beirut.
[6:19] >> Even if this new Israeli policy of a
[6:21] more measured response to PLO fire
[6:23] holds, the evacuation agreement still
[6:26] has a long way to go. The Israeli
[6:28] government still wants a list of what
[6:30] PLO fighters will go to which Arab
[6:32] countries and Prime Minister Bean still
[6:34] is not happy with the role of the French
[6:36] peacekeeping force. And then there is
[6:38] this troubling question. Once the
[6:41] evacuation gets underway, what if
[6:43] someone starts shooting? What then?
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[8:27] >> Henry Fonda died this morning after 77
[8:30] years. His heart failed. President
[8:32] Reagan mourned his passing and called
[8:33] him a legend. Fonda died with his wife
[8:36] by his side. Meredith Lewis reports from
[8:38] Los Angeles. Henry Fonda received the
[8:41] Oscar for on Golden Pond at his home in
[8:43] April. He was not well enough to attend
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[8:53] fifth time since undergoing heart
[8:54] surgery last May. Fonda's wife, Shirley,
[8:57] was at his bedside. His three children,
[9:00] Jane, Amy, and Peter, were with her as
[9:02] she described his passing.
[9:05] >> Henry died this morning at 5 minutes to
[9:08] 8. He died comfortably. He was in no
[9:12] pain. He had a very good night the night
[9:14] before. Talked all of us. Was never
[9:18] unconscious at any time.
[9:20] He woke up this morning, sat up in bed,
[9:23] and quietly just stopped breathing.
[9:26] >> Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda were
[9:27] friends since 1932, and he called on his
[9:30] family this afternoon.
[9:32] >> Well, I've I've lost my best friend.
[9:35] That's
[9:36] number one.
[9:38] Uh
[9:40] I think people all over the world have
[9:43] lost
[9:45] what I think is the finest actor in the
[9:47] world.
[9:49] Fondo once told friends that since he
[9:51] hated going to other people's funerals,
[9:53] he didn't want one held for him. He
[9:55] donated his eyes to a New York eye bank.
[9:58] And in accord with his wishes, he will
[10:00] be cremated. Meredith Lewis, NBC News,
[10:03] Los Angeles.
[10:05] Henry Fonda was a very American actor.
[10:07] He once said, "I'm still Omaha,
[10:09] Nebraska. I've never tried hard to get
[10:10] away from that." Because he was genuine.
[10:13] He was one of Hollywood's great actors
[10:15] during Hollywood's finest years. Frank
[10:17] Bergholder looks back.
[10:19] >> But car is terrible when he's mad.
[10:21] >> For Henry Fonda, acting was his life.
[10:23] Dozens of plays, more than 80 films. The
[10:27] farmer takes a wife, which he'd played
[10:28] on Broadway, became his first film.
[10:31] >> I first committed myself to acting when
[10:34] I discovered that it was
[10:36] therapy for a very self-conscious young
[10:38] man.
[10:42] I could put on a mask, hide behind it.
[10:46] And I feel very lucky over the years to
[10:49] have been given a chance to pretend to
[10:52] be some pretty interesting characters.
[10:57] >> Hanging's any man's business that's
[10:58] around.
[11:00] >> Kill him. I'll kill him.
[11:02] >> You don't really mean you'll kill me, do
[11:04] you?
[11:06] Like Casey says,
[11:09] fell ain't got a soul of his own. Just
[11:12] little piece of a big soul. the one big
[11:15] solar belongs to everybody.
[11:18] >> It never occurred to him to seek formal
[11:21] training as an actor, but he had a very
[11:23] strict standard for his work. As he
[11:25] recalled during a visit to his hometown,
[11:27] Omaha, Nebraska,
[11:28] >> by the time I knew that that's what I
[11:30] wanted to be, an actor,
[11:33] I began to have the feeling that I don't
[11:36] want the audience to ever see the wheels
[11:37] go around. make it so natural that they
[11:41] they accept you, not that you're acting.
[11:44] >> There was drama and turbulence in his
[11:46] personal life. Five marriages, two
[11:49] children, Jane and Peter, who made waves
[11:51] of their own. The third Amy, a more
[11:53] private person. He starred in Mr.
[11:55] Roberts in the film and on the stage for
[11:58] four years. Always like the stage
[12:00] version better.
[12:09] He always in fact preferred working on
[12:11] the stage. Clarence Darrow was another
[12:14] of his many stage characters.
[12:15] >> Breaker boy John McCaffrey. That means
[12:18] they set you and hundred others a
[12:21] straddle the shootute and as a coal
[12:23] comes rushing down you pick up the
[12:25] slate.
[12:27] Do they let you see the sun all day
[12:30] long? His last big vehicle was the film
[12:32] on Golden Pond with Katherine Heppern
[12:35] and his daughter Jane.
[12:38] >> I suppose you expect me to sing
[12:39] something now. Well, I'm not about to.
[12:44] I've been trying all day to draw some
[12:48] profound conclusions about living four
[12:51] score years. Haven't thought of
[12:53] anything.
[12:55] Surprised you got here so fast.
[12:57] It was a performance that finally
[12:59] brought a working actor the Academy
[13:01] Award as best actor.
[13:05] >> Frank Berg Holtzer, NBC News, Los
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[14:55] protesters were trying to stop the
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[14:59] 14 were arrested. Heidi Schulman
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[15:03] >> At first light, the Trident submarine
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[15:11] >> You must leave immediately. If you
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[15:17] their blockade before it began, turning
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[15:25] >> Get around the bow.
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[15:50] One rubber boat broke away and tried to
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[15:54] off by cutters. None of that slowed the
[15:57] Ohio. As it moved into the canal, some
[15:59] people who live along the route gathered
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[16:23] >> The Ohio's crew will be here for several
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[16:35] In a move which is provoking heavy
[16:37] criticism, the Reagan administration is
[16:39] using the Internal Revenue Service to
[16:41] help locate the small percentage of
[16:43] young men who have not registered for
[16:44] the draft. Here's Don Porter.
[16:49] Under the Selective Service Letterhead,
[16:50] but in Internal Revenue Service
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[17:08] Congressman Peter Piser says that
[17:10] undermines the credibility of the IRS.
[17:13] >> Probably the most important is the
[17:15] feeling of the American public that
[17:16] their tax returns are confidential
[17:19] between the IRS and uh themselves.
[17:23] Internal Revenue Commissioner Rosco
[17:24] Edgar denies violating taxpayer privacy,
[17:27] adding his agency will not for now
[17:29] reveal to the Selective Service any
[17:31] addresses turned up by IRS computers.
[17:34] That's just fine with selective service
[17:35] director Thomas Turnage.
[17:37] >> What we're after are the results. Uh the
[17:39] technique is less uh uh of an issue for
[17:42] us. The technique is of great interest
[17:44] at the White House where reportedly
[17:46] presidential aid Ed Me joined Defense
[17:48] Secretary Casper Weinberger in urging
[17:50] IRS involvement in spurring registration
[17:52] compliance. The IRS selective service
[17:55] letter warns the IRS may be required in
[17:57] the future to turn over the addresses of
[17:59] non-registrants for possible
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[18:04] American Civil Liberties Union expect
[18:05] the courts to be asked to decide what
[18:07] role the IRS may properly play in
[18:09] helping to enforce the draft
[18:10] registration law. Don Porter, NBC News,
[18:13] Washington.
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[20:14] >> The trial of Joseph Paul Franklin,
[20:16] accused of ambushing and shooting former
[20:18] Urban League President Vernon Jordan,
[20:20] continued today in Southbend, Indiana.
[20:22] Roger O'Neal reports.
[20:25] Martha Coleman, the woman who was with
[20:26] Vernon Jordan in Fort Wayne, Indiana the
[20:28] night he was shot, said today she heard
[20:30] a loud noise and Jordan scream, "I've
[20:32] been shot. Call for help." Joseph Paul
[20:35] Franklin, who calls himself a racist,
[20:37] the man accused of shooting Jordan, sat
[20:39] impassively as Mrs. Coleman testified
[20:41] for more than an hour. The woman, a
[20:43] member of the Fort Wayne Urban League,
[20:44] said she then called her lawyer because,
[20:46] in her words, "I was frightened and
[20:48] because of my past racially mixed
[20:50] marriage, I knew being with Jordan could
[20:52] be a problem since Mr. Jordan was a
[20:54] prominent black leader. Mrs. Coleman
[20:56] said she knew how some people feel about
[20:58] blacks and whites being together. During
[21:00] the FBI investigation of the shooting,
[21:02] Mrs. Coleman was hypnotized to see if
[21:04] she could remember more, but she was
[21:06] never able to identify who shot Jordan.
[21:08] Federal prosecutors say they'll wrap up
[21:10] their case tomorrow. Franklin's
[21:12] courtappointed lawyers expected to ask
[21:13] for a directed verdict of innocent based
[21:15] on the government's lack of direct
[21:17] evidence placing Franklin at the scene
[21:19] of the Vernon Jordan shooting. Roger
[21:21] O'Neal, NBC News, Southbend, Indiana.
[21:24] >> All indications are that the president
[21:26] will address the nation in the next few
[21:28] days uh to ask for support for the $99
[21:31] billion tax bill. And the first opponent
[21:33] to ask the networks for equal time was
[21:35] not a Democratic party spokesman, but
[21:37] Conservative leader Terry Dolan. In his
[21:40] commentary tonight, John Chancellor, who
[21:42] has just returned from the Middle East
[21:43] battle, has some thoughts on the tax
[21:44] battle. John,
[21:47] >> I thought things were confused in the
[21:49] Middle East. But look what's happening
[21:50] here at home. Ronald Reagan, the king of
[21:53] the tax cutters, who presided over last
[21:55] year's biggest tax cuts in history, is
[21:58] now supporting a tax increase which is
[21:59] being called the largest tax boost in
[22:02] history. Taxes are not supposed to go up
[22:04] in a recession because they take away
[22:06] purchasing power and slow the recovery.
[22:08] Yet, the administration wants to raise
[22:10] taxes in the worst recession in more
[22:12] than 40 years. Taxes almost never go up
[22:15] in an election year because the voters
[22:17] don't like it. Yet, the elections are
[22:19] just 12 weeks away. The Democrats are
[22:21] sitting this one out. Not a single
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[22:25] Senate. The House Democrats just ignored
[22:28] their constitutional responsibility to
[22:30] originate tax legislation and wrote no
[22:32] bill at all. The White House says the
[22:34] bill isn't as bad as it appears, but Mr.
[22:36] Reagan's conservative friends say that
[22:38] it still is designed to take 99 billion
[22:41] out of the private sector and give it to
[22:43] the government. The fact is that however
[22:45] much the president hates all this, he's
[22:47] right. The government needs the extra
[22:49] tax money to offset deficits so big that
[22:52] they threaten everything. Mr. Reagan's
[22:54] enemies say his policies cause these
[22:56] deficits. He doesn't agree. But to try
[22:59] to get the deficits down, he needs more
[23:01] taxes. And to do that, he's got to
[23:03] desert his friends and his economic
[23:05] philosophy. Tough times for Ronald
[23:07] Reagan. Roger.
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[23:14] nearly half the adult Americans sampled
[23:17] think President Reagan has had enough
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[23:21] so, and they now think his program is a
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[23:29] disapprove.
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[25:07] Douglas Ker keeps moving west. West
[25:09] along Route 30. And tonight he's in
[25:11] Warsaw, Indiana, where he spent a day at
[25:13] an establishment unique in American
[25:15] life. Northeastern Indiana, Lake
[25:19] Country.
[25:21] There are lots of familiar places along
[25:23] Route 30 where a hungry traveler can
[25:25] stop to eat here. Places so familiar
[25:28] they could be anywhere on any highway.
[25:31] But turn left off the bypass, head down
[25:34] Center Street in Warsaw, Indiana, and
[25:36] right in the middle of town, you'll find
[25:38] a place that's a little different.
[25:40] >> 13.
[25:42] There's your red four. Just told you had
[25:44] the red five.
[25:46] >> Greetings, food, Dominoes, cigars. It's
[25:50] the town hangout with a spirited domino
[25:52] game that never seems to end.
[25:55] >> I've been coming in here for
[25:58] >> 45 years.
[26:00] >> 45 years.
[26:01] >> Yeah, I'm only 46.
[26:05] >> Readings is not part of any fast food
[26:07] chain. Not part of anything except the
[26:09] town of Warsaw and the men who live
[26:11] here. You
[26:13] >> come in, you get your coffee, you sit
[26:14] and you get caught up on the local news.
[26:17] You know what's happening here before
[26:19] the newspaper gets it? Sometimes
[26:21] >> it's not a bar, not even beer. Greetings
[26:24] is an old cigar store which over half a
[26:26] century has evolved into a short order
[26:28] cafe. The atmosphere inside loud and
[26:31] rockous.
[26:33] >> If you want a quiet, peaceful cup of
[26:35] coffee, go to McDonald's. Don't come
[26:37] here.
[26:38] >> It's the place where people come to read
[26:40] the papers, exchange local gossip, and
[26:42] kid the current owner, Burley Berg,
[26:44] about the quality of the food. I haven't
[26:46] heard one.
[26:48] >> Come on.
[26:50] >> Women are not banned, but the regulars
[26:52] still talk about the last time one came
[26:54] in.
[26:55] >> You know, it's a funny thing. Men have
[26:56] to be together for some reason or other.
[26:58] I don't know why. And women, they a few
[27:01] of them get together, but they don't bum
[27:03] around with each other all the time.
[27:05] >> Solve everything in the county. Politics
[27:07] and all in there.
[27:08] >> Yeah. Politics, religion, we anything.
[27:11] Women, we could we could tell you how to
[27:13] understand. Well, no, we couldn't
[27:14] either, couldn't we?
[27:16] >> Beyond that, Breedings is pure small
[27:19] town democracy.
[27:20] >> You got bankers, you got undertakers,
[27:23] you got doctors, you got workingmen, you
[27:25] got farmers, you got laborers, you got
[27:26] everything. I told my wife one time, I
[27:29] said a kid working there about 6 or 8
[27:32] months be like sending to college for
[27:34] about 3 years. He learned more about
[27:36] life.
[27:38] >> Most of your small town around had a
[27:40] group like this, but they've slowly
[27:42] disappeared.
[27:44] That's a shame.
[27:45] >> Yeah, it is. Cuz they've lost a lot of
[27:47] their fellowship that way.
[27:49] >> Fellowship.
[27:50] >> Yeah.
[27:53] >> They come here for the camaraderie, for
[27:55] the fellowship. It's their place. It's
[27:57] their thing. They belong. Any McDonald's
[28:01] will sell you a hamburger, but you can't
[28:03] belong there. Douglas Kiker, NBC News,
[28:06] along Route 30 in Warsaw, Indiana.
[28:10] >> That's nightly news for Thursday. I'm
[28:12] Roger Mud in Washington
[28:15] >> and I'm Tom Brokco in Jerusalem. Good
[28:17] night for all of us at NBC News.