CBS Evening News - 1979-10-02
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[0:00] this is the Western edition of the CBS
[0:03] Evening News with Walter Cronkite in New
[0:05] York and Terry drinkwater in Los Angeles
[0:08] good evening the faltering salt 2 treaty
[0:11] has received an indirect endorsement
[0:13] from Pope John Paul II and an all-out
[0:16] Salvage effort from The Carter
[0:18] Administration the pope and the United
[0:20] Nations address applauded the decisions
[0:22] and agreements aimed at reducing the
[0:24] arms race but he deplores what he called
[0:27] the desire to be ready for war adding
[0:30] being ready means being able to start it
[0:32] we'll have more on the Pope's un address
[0:34] in his day in New York later in the
[0:36] broadcast in a nationwide address last
[0:39] night President Carter made that new
[0:40] Arms Treaty with Moscow a rallying point
[0:43] playing down the dispute over those
[0:45] three thousand Soviet troops in Cuba Mr
[0:48] Carter said that that military presence
[0:50] is not the greatest danger to American
[0:52] Security
[0:53] the greatest danger to all the nations
[0:56] of the world including the United States
[0:58] and the Soviet Union
[1:00] is the breakdown of a common effort to
[1:02] preserve the peace and the ultimate
[1:04] threat of a nuclear war
[1:07] Mr Carter announced steps the United
[1:09] States would take to counter the Soviet
[1:11] troops they include increased
[1:13] surveillance of Cuba establishment of a
[1:15] permanent Caribbean Joint Task Force
[1:17] Headquarters at Key West and expanded in
[1:20] regular military Maneuvers in the
[1:22] Caribbean area Mr Carter also said he
[1:24] had received Soviet assurances that
[1:26] those troops will not be of a combat
[1:28] nature and that they will not threaten
[1:30] Any Nation but his long-await