CBS Evening News - 1970-08-18
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[0:00] Nashville.
[0:02] >> Direct from our newsroom in New York. In
[0:04] color, this is the CBS Evening News with
[0:07] Walter Kronite. And in Washington, Bruce
[0:10] Morton, Marvin Calb, Bob Schaefer, Phil
[0:13] Jones in Orlando, Florida, Don Webster
[0:16] near Weey, South Vietnam. Murray Prmpson
[0:18] in Chicago, and Charles Caralt on the
[0:21] road tonight in Galax, Virginia.
[0:25] >> Good evening. The State Department
[0:26] acknowledging that this country is
[0:28] flying high level reconnaissance over
[0:30] the Suez Canal says it has evidence of a
[0:33] Soviet missile buildup there, but
[0:35] apparently it still disagrees with
[0:37] Israel as to the seriousness of the
[0:39] development. Marvin Calb reports.
[0:43] The administration has hard evidence of
[0:45] a major Egyptian Soviet missile buildup
[0:47] near the Suez Canal shortly before and
[0:51] after the ceasefire went into effect.
[0:53] perhaps as many as a dozen new sites,
[0:56] each containing six missile launchers.
[0:58] But according to high officials here,
[1:00] the situation since then has generally
[1:02] stabilized, except for what one official
[1:05] called minor movements of men and
[1:07] material.
[1:09] This US intelligence comes from
[1:11] high-flying U2 reconnaissance planes.
[1:14] They have been flying over the Israeli
[1:16] side of the Suez Canal since the start
[1:17] of the ceasefire, checking on
[1:19] implementation by both sides. The
[1:22] Israelis claim that the situation along
[1:24] the canal has definitely worsened in no
[1:27] sense has been stabilized. And after a
[1:30] meeting today with Assistant Secretary
[1:32] of State Cisco, Israeli ambassador
[1:34] Robbin raised this red flag of alarm.
[1:37] And the introduction of this miss
[1:39] groundto