NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-09
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[0:00] Nashville.
[0:06] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Roger Mud
[0:09] in Washington, Tom Brokco in Beirut, and
[0:12] commentary by John Chancelor in southern
[0:14] Lebanon.
[0:17] Good evening from Beirut, where even
[0:19] though there appears to be a good deal
[0:20] of movement around the diplomatic
[0:21] efforts to get the PLO out of here,
[0:23] Israel today continued its siege. In
[0:26] fact, it improved its positions. Late
[0:29] this afternoon, there were Israeli
[0:30] aerial attacks on West Beirut. Several
[0:33] neighborhoods were hit and Israeli
[0:36] artillery units were spotted on the
[0:38] coast south of Beirut moving up. We have
[0:41] two reports from Beirut tonight. Vic Aen
[0:44] covering the military action from the
[0:46] Israeli side in East Beirut and James
[0:48] Compton covering the effects of the
[0:50] siege on West Beirut.
[0:54] Israeli and Palestinian gunners renewed
[0:56] the battle today after 2 and 1/2 days of
[0:59] relative quiet.
[1:04] Most of the action came as Israeli tanks
[1:06] moved into new positions closer to the
[1:09] line dividing east and west Beirut
[1:12] closer to the Palestinians.
[1:20] Israeli foot soldiers darted across
[1:23] exposed ground. Palestinian snipers have
[1:26] been active here. Lebanese youngsters
[1:28] braved the open spaces to look for shell
[1:31] casings.
[1:33] But on the firing line, the faces are
[1:35] mostly determined and in some cases
[1:38] apprehensive.
[1:41] Almost all of the Israeli soldiers that
[1:43] we talked to today are convinced that
[1:45] they and not the politicians will have
[1:47] to drive the Palestinian fighters out of
[1:49] West Beirut. Vic Aken, NBC News, East
[1:52] Beirut.
[1:55] All this shooting happened with both
[1:57] sides nearer than ever before to an
[1:59] agreement that would see Palestinian
[2:01] forces gradually evacuated from Beirut
[2:04] and the city spared further destruction.
[2:07] If the deal stands up, the first
[2:09] contingent of Palestinian forces would
[2:10] leave from here, a military beach club
[2:13] in downtown Beirut. It is a Lebanese
[2:15] army barracks now, the same point used
[2:18] to evacuate American civilians during
[2:20] the Lebanese civil war. The Palestinians
[2:22] would go by sea to the Jordanian port of
[2:24] Akaba. Then, French peacekeeping forces
[2:27] would enter the city of Beirut by sea at
[2:29] the same point. For the first time in
[2:32] weeks, there was genuine optimism the
[2:34] city could win the race against
[2:35] starvation and disease. Though food
[2:38] supplies are dwindling, some fresh water
[2:40] is now being allowed into Beirut by the
[2:42] Israelis. At a downtown supermarket that
[2:45] opens for a few hours a day, the owner
[2:47] says he is running low of many basic
[2:49] food stuffs, but hopeful the PLO
[2:51] evacuation will make Israel lift its
[2:53] block day. In the end, he told us, the
[2:56] most lasting damage of the siege of
[2:58] Beirut will be to the reputation of the
[3:00] United States.
[3:02] >> Uh, this ugly American image has come in
[3:05] again because they have they really
[3:09] think everybody in Beirut thinks that
[3:12] none of this could have been done if
[3:14] they didn't have the support of the
[3:15] Americans. A PLO newspaper had a bitter
[3:18] commentary on the Palestinian decision
[3:20] to evacuate Beirut, saying it was a step
[3:23] taken for want of help from our Arab
[3:25] brethren. The paper said the PLO would
[3:28] now leave Beirut in order to save the
[3:30] city, but added, "We had expected our
[3:33] Arab brethren to come and fight. None of
[3:35] them came." James Compton, NBC News,
[3:39] West Beirut.
[3:41] But as for the diplomatic efforts which
[3:42] involve a multinational peacekeeping
[3:44] force, those diplomatic efforts appear
[3:46] to be getting a mixed reaction within
[3:48] the Israeli government. There does seem
[3:50] to be some optimism, however, tonight.
[3:52] And Martin Fletcher has the story from
[3:54] Israel.
[3:56] Israel is still pouring heavy equipment
[3:58] into Lebanon, but the package deal put
[4:00] together by Ambassador Habib may end the
[4:02] crisis. And sources in Jerusalem say
[4:04] Prime Minister Bean will do his utmost
[4:07] to avoid an all-out attack on West
[4:09] Beirut. The Israelis should receive
[4:11] Habib's proposal tonight. Later, the PLO
[4:14] will get it. PLO is said to have agreed
[4:16] already to all the main points. The deal
[4:19] gives Israel almost everything it
[4:20] demanded, according to a top western
[4:22] source. And he said the PLO backed down
[4:25] on nearly everything it wanted. The plan
[4:28] says the PLO fighters will leave Beirut
[4:30] in a 15-day period to begin when all
[4:33] sides sign the package. 200 French
[4:35] soldiers of the multinational
[4:37] peacekeeping force would arrive as the
[4:39] first group of PLO leaves. Then the rest
[4:42] of the international force would arrive,
[4:44] including 800 Americans and the last of
[4:46] the PLO would leave. But the big problem
[4:49] remains, where will the PLO go? The
[4:52] Western source said Syria, Jordan,
[4:54] Sudan, and Iraq should take substantial
[4:56] numbers with a chance Egypt may change
[4:58] its mind and agree too. But those
[5:01] countries haven't come out and said it.
[5:03] And until they do, Israeli opposition
[5:05] leader Yetsak Rabin is not convinced.
[5:08] >> I hope that this time it will not be
[5:10] ended by another fiasco because there
[5:14] are no Arab countries who are ready to
[5:16] accept it.
[5:17] >> A top Israeli official says Israel can
[5:19] agree to the deal, but says the key is
[5:21] whether the United States will use its
[5:23] political and financial power to
[5:26] persuade countries to take in the PLO.
[5:29] Martin Fletcher, NBC News, Tel Aviv.
[5:31] Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Bean
[5:33] told a group of American Jewish leaders
[5:35] that once this war with the PLO is over
[5:38] in Lebanon and there is peace to the
[5:39] north of Israel and peace to the south
[5:41] with Egypt, he'll arrange package tours
[5:43] back and forth. Well, in fact, today the
[5:46] first tour of southern Lebanese left for
[5:49] Israel.
[5:50] I'll be back with more from Beirut later
[5:52] in the program. Roger.
[5:56] The US government today formally
[5:57] protested to the Israeli government what
[5:59] it said were three separate incidents of
[6:01] harassment of the US military. One was
[6:04] the repeated buzzing of two US
[6:06] helicopters by an Israeli jet. The began
[6:09] government apologized today saying it
[6:11] was a routine checking out of an unknown
[6:13] aircraft. And Bernard Calb reports from
[6:16] the State Department this evening that
[6:17] the Reagan administration apparently has
[6:19] decided that Ambassador Habib has struck
[6:22] the best deal that can be had and that
[6:24] by revealing so much of the details, the
[6:26] administration hopes to build up hope
[6:28] for the settlement, thus bringing
[6:29] pressure on both the Israelis and the
[6:31] PLO to conform.
[6:44] How do the vitamins in these cereals
[6:45] compare with totals?
[6:46] >> I don't know.
[6:47] >> This shield shows total has 100% of a
[6:50] day's allowance of nine vitamins and
[6:52] iron.
[6:52] >> Okay.
[6:53] >> Put total shield on your cereal to
[6:55] compare vitamins.
[6:56] >> I eat grape nuts.
[7:00] >> 25%. Total's a lot higher. But how's it
[7:03] taste?
[7:03] >> Crisp flakes of whole grain wheat
[7:07] >> and
[7:09] 100% of nine vitamins. That's the total
[7:12] difference.
[7:16] >> Honey, that blue paint looks fine for
[7:18] our new house, but I don't think we
[7:19] brought enough with us.
[7:21] >> Yeah, and who knows if there's a custom
[7:22] paint store around here.
[7:24] >> DMW paint and paint supplies.
[7:26] >> The Bell System Yellow Pages talks when
[7:28] your fingers do the walking. You save
[7:30] gas, money, and time.
[7:32] >> Hal's paint, corner of Oaken Third. We
[7:34] match colors.
[7:35] >> Looks like we've run out.
[7:36] >> That's okay, Dad. We'll just run out to
[7:38] the corner for some more.
[7:39] >> Get the yellow pages talking. We match
[7:41] colors.
[7:42] >> Let your fingers do the walking.
[7:44] >> Open wide.
[7:46] >> Wait a minute, doctor.
[7:47] >> What's wrong, John?
[7:48] >> You need the breath deodorant.
[7:50] >> Sorry. Must have been the onion salad
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[8:15] >> Terrorists attacked a Jewish restaurant
[8:17] in Paris today, killing six people
[8:19] inside on on and on the street and
[8:22] injuring almost two dozen. It was the
[8:24] most serious of four anti-semitic
[8:26] attacks in Paris in 8 days. The Israelis
[8:28] blamed the PLO. The PLO denied the
[8:30] charge. Steve Mallalerie reports from
[8:32] Paris.
[8:35] >> This was the deadliest anti-Semitic
[8:37] attack in Paris since World War II. Six
[8:40] people were killed and 22 wounded when
[8:42] gunmen sprayed customers at Joe
[8:44] Goldenberg's restaurant with machine gun
[8:46] fire. There were reports a grenade was
[8:49] also thrown. The gunman then escaped
[8:51] down narrow alleys, firing as they fled.
[8:54] Some people were hit as they ran for
[8:55] cover. A plain closed policeman was
[8:58] critically shot by mistake. He had drawn
[9:00] his pistol to shoot at the terrorist but
[9:02] was mistakenly shot by one of the
[9:04] restaurant's guards. Goldenbergs is the
[9:07] most famous kosher restaurant in Paris.
[9:09] It is situated in the heart of the
[9:10] ancient Jewish quarter. Police cordined
[9:13] off the area, but several hundred people
[9:15] crowded around the shooting site,
[9:17] shouting insults against French
[9:18] President Francois Meron, who arrived
[9:21] late in the afternoon to attend memorial
[9:22] services at a nearby synagogue. The
[9:25] French interior minister had to fight
[9:27] his way through an angry crowd to attend
[9:29] the services. Many French Jews contend
[9:31] the government hasn't done enough to
[9:33] protect them during the rash of
[9:34] anti-Semitic incidents following
[9:36] Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The
[9:38] restaurant owner, Joe Goldenberg, tried
[9:40] to calm the angry crowd and said he
[9:43] would reopen tomorrow.
[9:45] Those who had gathered then prayed.
[9:51] Steve Mallalerie, NBC News, Paris.
[9:55] A Texas truck driver armed with two guns
[9:58] went on a deadly rampage in the Dallas
[10:00] suburb of Grand Prairie this morning
[10:02] before police finally shot him dead. He
[10:04] had killed six people and wounded at
[10:06] least four others. Ed Martell of Kxas
[10:08] has a report.
[10:11] It began here at the Western
[10:12] Transportation Company about 8 this
[10:14] morning. Police say 46-year-old John
[10:16] Parish was angry over being banned from
[10:18] driving a truck for the company. Armed
[10:20] with a rifle and pistol, Paris shot and
[10:23] killed his supervisor and one other
[10:24] person. He then drove a truck to GM
[10:26] International, another trucking company,
[10:28] killed one more person, then went on to
[10:30] a Jewel T Company warehouse and killed
[10:33] two more people. From there, he stole a
[10:35] tractor trailer, crashed into a police
[10:37] car, and emerged from the wreck truck
[10:38] shooting. He was killed by police. The
[10:41] entire incident was over in just 25
[10:43] minutes. They finally killed the guy, I
[10:46] guess, or he killed himself or
[10:47] something.
[10:48] >> But he deserved it
[10:51] >> cuz he this way he can't plead temporary
[10:53] insanity and get out in two years.
[10:55] >> Several people were injured, including a
[10:57] police officer critically hurt when
[10:58] Parish rammed the police car. Total
[11:00] dead, seven, including the man who
[11:03] started it all. Ed Martell in Grand
[11:05] Prairie, Texas for NBC News.
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[12:44] >> John W. Hinckley Jr. was today committed
[12:47] indefinitely by US District Judge
[12:48] Barington Parker. Hinckley had been
[12:50] confined at St. Elizabeth's Mental
[12:52] Hospital here since last June when he
[12:54] was found not guilty by reason of
[12:56] insanity in the attempted assassination
[12:58] of President Reagan. James Poke reports.
[13:03] The courtappointed psychiatrist found
[13:05] Hinckley remains an unpredictably
[13:07] dangerous person. There are reports that
[13:09] Hinckley described his shooting of
[13:10] President Reagan as an exorcism. The
[13:13] roller coaster ride was over. The movie
[13:15] in my mind was through. But for
[13:17] Hinckley, they said it isn't over. He
[13:19] still has homicidal and suicidal ideas.
[13:22] The report said Hinckley talks about
[13:23] raping and murdering actress Jodie
[13:25] Foster. It said presently he thinks
[13:28] daily about killing Jodie Foster.
[13:30] Hinckley was brought into court under
[13:32] guard without a tie, his belt also taken
[13:34] away. The judge quoted the report.
[13:37] Hinckley remains a danger to himself as
[13:39] well as a danger to others, particularly
[13:41] Miss Foster. In a quiet voice, Hinckley
[13:43] said, "I am not admitting to agreeing to
[13:45] what is in the reports. I don't
[13:47] necessarily agree with that." But he
[13:49] waved his rights to a full hearing, and
[13:51] the judge ordered him committed
[13:52] indefinitely to a federal mental
[13:54] hospital.
[13:56] Hinckley, in the white shirt in the back
[13:58] seat, was returned to St. Elizabeth's
[14:00] Hospital in Washington. He is being kept
[14:02] in a maximum security ward in part for
[14:04] his own safety.
[14:06] Hinckley can apply for release as early
[14:09] as next year, but the psychiatrist
[14:11] findings today indicate he probably will
[14:14] be kept confined for many years to come.
[14:17] James Pulk, NBC News, Washington.
[14:22] The trial of Joseph Paul Franklin, the
[14:25] alleged asalent of former Urban League
[14:27] President Vernon Jordan, began today in
[14:29] Southbend, Indiana. 80 prospective
[14:32] jurors were called before 12 were
[14:33] selected. Roger O'Neal reports.
[14:38] >> The man accused of trying to kill Vernon
[14:40] Jordan more than two years ago, Joseph
[14:42] Paul Franklin was brought to federal
[14:43] court in Southbend, Indiana in a van
[14:45] under heavy guard. Jordan was in Fort
[14:48] Wayne, Indiana to speak to an Urban
[14:50] League dinner. After the speech, he was
[14:52] shot in the back outside his hotel room.
[14:54] He was with this woman at the time,
[14:56] Martha Coleman, a member of the Fort
[14:58] Wayne Urban League. Everyone who entered
[15:00] the courtroom was searched. In opening
[15:02] statements, the federal prosecutor told
[15:04] the all-white jury that Franklin, an
[15:06] avowed racist, has an obsessive hatred
[15:08] of blacks and that he stalked Vernon
[15:10] Jordan after seeing him have a drink
[15:12] with Martha Coleman. Wearing a
[15:14] three-piece pinstriped suit, Franklin
[15:16] sat expressionless in the courtroom.
[15:18] Franklin is already serving four
[15:19] consecutive life sentences for killing
[15:21] two black men in Utah 2 months after the
[15:24] Jordan shooting. Franklin's
[15:25] court-appointed lawyer then told the
[15:27] jury the government's case is built on
[15:28] hysteria and his client merely answers
[15:31] the need for a convenient solution. The
[15:33] government doesn't have a lot of direct
[15:35] evidence. No weapon was ever recovered
[15:37] and there were no witnesses to the
[15:38] shooting, but the government says it can
[15:40] place Franklin at the scene of the
[15:42] shooting and was trying to sell a rifle
[15:44] a week later. Vernon Jordan will testify
[15:46] tomorrow. Roger O'Neal, NBC News,
[15:49] Southbend, Indiana.
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[17:28] The lobbying to win the $99 billion tax
[17:31] increase began in earnest today at the
[17:33] White House. Last week, the
[17:34] administration was stunned when a revolt
[17:36] of conservatives opposed to the tax bill
[17:38] surfaced. John Palmer reports.
[17:42] The president intensified his campaign
[17:44] to win converts for his controversial
[17:46] $99 billion tax increase, inviting a
[17:49] group of Republican congressmen to the
[17:51] White House. But Mr. Reagan's biggest
[17:53] convert, Lynn Knoffsiger, was already
[17:55] inside. Nofsiger, who left the White
[17:58] House last January, rejoined the
[18:00] administration today as an unpaid
[18:03] consultant to marshall public support
[18:04] for the tax legislation. Just 5 days
[18:07] ago, Kniger and some other conservative
[18:10] supporters of the president endorsed
[18:12] this statement opposing the tax
[18:14] increase. Kniger explained his flip-flop
[18:17] by saying the president had convinced
[18:19] him that the tax increase is necessary.
[18:22] Also had a political motive.
[18:23] >> If it doesn't pass, uh it tells a lot of
[18:26] people that uh that Ronald Reagan uh uh
[18:29] has lost control of the Republican
[18:32] party. At the same time, budget director
[18:34] David Stockman was out on the White
[18:36] House lawn, aiding the campaign, telling
[18:39] reporters the tax increases needed to
[18:41] bring down the federal deficit and lower
[18:43] interest rates. To win the tax battle,
[18:45] letters are going out to Reagan
[18:47] supporters. Scores of congressmen will
[18:49] be invited to meet with the president,
[18:51] and the White House is considering what
[18:53] it hopes could be its Trump card, a
[18:55] nationwide television appeal by the
[18:57] president. John Palmer, NBC News. At the
[19:00] White House,
[19:01] >> the administration is still working to
[19:04] cut some taxes. The president met today
[19:06] with a group of congressmen to sell his
[19:08] tuition tax credit proposal, a plan that
[19:10] would cost the Treasury about a billion
[19:12] dollars a year if it is phased in. This
[19:16] is Alexander Heg, the country's newest
[19:18] professional lecturer. He made his debut
[19:20] today in San Francisco before the
[19:22] American Bar Association convention. He
[19:24] revealed no details about his
[19:25] resignation, but he did get off some
[19:27] snappy jokes about his change status.
[19:30] Just a few weeks ago, I was fourth in
[19:32] line of succession.
[19:35] Today, I have to struggle for a
[19:38] precedence in the checkout counter line
[19:41] at the supermarket.
[19:45] Incidentally, I don't know what all the
[19:47] fuss was a few months ago when the
[19:49] president was shot about line of
[19:51] succession. So, I made a little mistake.
[20:04] Heg was paid $20,000 plus travel for his
[20:07] 34-minut speech, which is probably a lot
[20:10] more than his enemies, Vice President
[20:12] Bush and Chief of Staff Baker, will get
[20:13] for a speech when they leave office.
[20:15] Tom,
[20:18] >> in his commentary tonight, John
[20:20] Chancellor talks about the problem with
[20:21] the Palestinians who will stay behind in
[20:23] Lebanon even if the PLO leave Beirut.
[20:28] The world has its eye on Beirut and
[20:30] what's happening there. But the real
[20:32] Palestinian problem is to be found in
[20:34] places like this. There are a lot of
[20:36] them, but this one is typical. It's the
[20:38] Rashadia Palestinian refugee camp in
[20:41] southern Lebanon, partially destroyed by
[20:43] the Israeli army because they were PLO
[20:45] fighters here. The PLO is gone. The
[20:48] refugees remain. Some of these people
[20:50] came here to Lebanon in 1948 during the
[20:53] fighting in the Israeli War of
[20:54] Independence. That's how the
[20:56] Palestinians became refugees. When the
[20:58] Arabs attacked the Israelis, these
[21:00] people ran away. They became displaced
[21:03] persons 34 years ago. Remember that
[21:05] phrase? There were millions of displaced
[21:07] persons after World War II. And most of
[21:10] them, whether they liked it or not,
[21:11] found home somewhere. But not the
[21:13] Palestinians. The Israelis share some of
[21:16] the blame for that. But what is also
[21:17] true is that other Arab countries
[21:19] wouldn't take them in. Wretched
[21:21] Palestinians in the camps were useful to
[21:23] the Arab cause because they made Israel
[21:25] look bad. So the Palestinians, among the
[21:28] most literate in the Arab world, lived
[21:30] in the camps. The brightest and the
[21:32] best, got out, but most of them lived as
[21:34] wards of the United Nations. Arab
[21:36] countries paid the least for their
[21:38] support. The United States and the West
[21:40] paid the most. And that is true today,
[21:43] three decades later. Did the PLO recruit
[21:45] young men in these camps for the fight
[21:47] against Israel? You bet. Now, here's the
[21:50] rub. These people are not going to go
[21:53] away. They are not going to be evacuated
[21:55] by any international force. The Arab
[21:57] countries aren't lining up to take them
[21:59] in. They're stuck. There are different
[22:01] estimates of how many there are of these
[22:03] hopeless people in camps in different
[22:05] countries. But the United Nations has a
[22:07] tally of listed registered Palestinian
[22:10] refugees. There are 1,900,000
[22:14] men, women, and children on that list.
[22:19] The criticism of Israel for the
[22:21] continued attacks on West Beirut has not
[22:23] escaped the attention of the young
[22:24] Israeli soldiers who are doing the
[22:26] actual shelling. Today I spent some time
[22:29] with this Israeli tank unit which is
[22:31] snug up against the line dividing east
[22:32] and west Beirut. They spent the morning
[22:35] shelling West Beirut. The crews are
[22:37] tired. They've been involved in the
[22:39] action nearly every day since the war
[22:40] began. And this unit alone has lost a
[22:43] half dozen men.
[22:44] They don't like the criticism they've
[22:46] been getting for hitting West Beirut so
[22:48] long and so hard.
[22:50] >> If the world would come here and see and
[22:53] speak to any Lebanese person that they
[22:55] may choose,
[22:57] 99.9%
[22:59] of them would say that they are not only
[23:02] they want us to go in, but they're dying
[23:04] for us to go in.
[23:05] >> If you are not in the in the wall, you
[23:10] can't see it. Understand? because they
[23:13] sitting there, they don't know what they
[23:15] all about here and they hear in the news
[23:18] so they speak. But when I'm here, I see
[23:22] it. I feel it. So I know what I'm doing.
[23:25] Look, uh,
[23:28] one of them and one of the friends are
[23:31] killing my friends in Israel, a little
[23:34] child. So
[23:37] this is the solution.
[23:39] One of the young Israeli soldiers said
[23:41] he had always wanted to see Beirut, but
[23:43] not with a tank. And now he says if he
[23:45] gets out of here alive, he never wants
[23:47] to come back.
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[24:55] >> Congressman,
[24:56] >> could we re-examine this proposal? Oh,
[24:58] >> by all means, Jane. Some coffee,
[25:00] >> please.
[25:01] >> Whoa.
[25:02] >> Only half a cup. I thought you like my
[25:04] coffee. Love the rich taste. It's the
[25:07] caffeine I can do without.
[25:08] >> Me, too. That's why we're drinking Brim
[25:10] decaffeinated coffee.
[25:11] >> This is Brim.
[25:12] >> This is Brim. And it's decaffeinated.
[25:14] So, you don't have to stop at half a
[25:15] cup.
[25:15] >> If it tastes this rich, I don't want to
[25:17] stop. Fill it to the rim.
[25:19] >> With Brim.
[25:20] >> Fill your cup to the rim with the
[25:21] richness of Brim.
[25:24] >> We're used to price wars among gas
[25:26] stations and drugstore chains and
[25:28] clothing stores and car dealers, but a
[25:30] cola war is unusual. NBC business
[25:32] correspondent Mike Jensen has just
[25:34] returned from the front.
[25:37] >> Combatant number one kicking off its
[25:39] summer offensive at Radio City Music
[25:41] Hall. CocaCola telling its bottlers
[25:44] about a $3 million advertising campaign
[25:46] in the New York area for its newest
[25:48] product, Diet Coke. Growth in the cola
[25:51] business has been slowing down, and the
[25:53] experts say future growth probably lies
[25:55] in diet and caffeine-free drinks. Coke
[25:58] had Bobby Short fly in from Europe to
[26:00] sing a medley of Coke commercials.
[26:14] And of course, the Rockettes were there.
[26:18] >> Coke already sells Tab, which is also
[26:20] sugar-free, but it thinks Diet Coke will
[26:22] appeal to a wider, less sophisticated
[26:24] group of cola drinkers, like the people
[26:26] in this commercial, which has just begun
[26:28] airing in New York. The taste of Pepsi.
[26:32] >> In the other corner, combatant number
[26:34] two, Pepsi Cola on the road, introducing
[26:36] PepsiFree, no caffeine, at a news
[26:39] conference in Oklahoma City, part of an
[26:41] 8 city promotional blitz. Sometimes it's
[26:44] hard to remember where you are.
[26:46] >> On this historic day for both Pepsi Cola
[26:49] and Phoenix consumers, I'm sorry for
[26:52] Oklahoma City consumers.
[26:53] >> PepsiFree is already going into stores
[26:56] mostly in the western part of the
[26:57] country in test markets. Coke doesn't
[26:59] think many people will buy a
[27:01] caffeine-free cola, so it's waiting to
[27:03] see what happens. But Pepsi is spending
[27:05] $und00 million to promote Pepsi-free
[27:08] nationally. It says that potentially
[27:10] it's a $2 billion a year market.
[27:13] However, the battle between Coke and
[27:14] Pepsi comes out. There are some certain
[27:16] losers, the other soft drink companies,
[27:18] the smaller ones. There's only so much
[27:20] room on supermarket shelves. And with
[27:22] new products coming from the two
[27:24] heavyweights, some of the less popular
[27:26] brands will be bumped right off the
[27:27] shelves.
[27:29] Meanwhile, both Coke and Pepsi are
[27:31] trotting out their big guns, determined
[27:33] to win this summer's battle of the
[27:34] colas.
[27:37] >> Mike Jensen, NBC News, New York.
[27:42] That's nightly news for Monday. I'm
[27:44] Roger Mud in Washington.
[27:47] And I'm Tom Brokaw in Beirut. Good night
[27:49] for all of us at NBC News.
[27:53] Tomorrow morning on today live from Tel
[27:56] Aviv, Defense Minister Ariel Chiron
[27:58] tells Bryant Gumble where Israel stands
[28:00] in the Beirut crisis. Also, the Senate's
[28:03] Minority Leader Robert Bird says
[28:05] regonomics doesn't add up. You'll meet
[28:07] music man Herb Alpert. Football Hall of
[28:10] Famer Sam Huff and Dr. Tom Codle joins
[28:12] today with a report on overeating, why
[28:15] people do it, and what can be done about
[28:17] it.
[28:26] Taxi. Taxi.
[28:29] >> How do you get a taxi in this town?
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[28:47] Coming up in just a minute on the scene
[28:49] at 6, Metro police vow to crack down on
[28:51] neighborhood violence and some MTA bus
[28:54] riders will be looking for another mode
[28:56] of transportation before the month is
[28:57] out.
[28:58] >> Also in the news tonight, state revenue
[29:01] figures show the state off to a bad
[29:03] start in the new fiscal year. And in
[29:05] part one of her unit 4 series on dental
[29:07] health, Ellen Schuman looks at gum
[29:09] disease and its consequences.
[29:13] >> These stories and more news coming up on
[29:15] the scene at 6.
[29:18] Hi, this is Tim Larson on the Kenai
[29:20] Peninsula in Alaska. All this week,
[29:22] we're going to show you what it's like
[29:23] up here in the summertime. When most
[29:25] people think of Alaska, they think of
[29:27] the great outdoors. And there's plenty
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