NBC Nightly News - 1979-06-12

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[0:00] TV Nashville.

[0:02] >> This is NBC Nightly News

[0:06] with John Chancellor in New York, David

[0:09] Brinkley in Washington, and tonight's

[0:11] segment three, [music] part two of a

[0:13] five-part series, Salt and the Arms

[0:15] Race.

[0:17] Good evening. The president asked

[0:20] Congress for a new national health plan.

[0:23] It would guarantee, among much else,

[0:25] that no family would ever have to pay

[0:27] medical bills above $2500 a year. And it

[0:32] would guarantee all pregnant women free

[0:34] care and free delivery and free care for

[0:36] their babies in the first year. For

[0:39] employed people, this would be paid by

[0:41] insurance with at least three4s of the

[0:43] insurance premiums paid by employers.

[0:46] For the poor, as now would be covered by

[0:49] Medicare and Medicaid. And these

[0:52] programs would be combined into a huge

[0:54] new program called health care. Two

[0:57] reports.

[0:58] >> President Carter's national health plan

[1:00] has something for everyone, but is short

[1:01] of the full coverage advocated by

[1:03] Senator Edward Kennedy. Kennedy was not

[1:06] among the congressional leaders

[1:07] assembled to endorse the Carter plan.

[1:09] And to hear the president take a swing

[1:10] at the ideas behind the Kennedy plan.

[1:14] >> The idea of all or nothing has been

[1:17] pursued now for almost three decades.

[1:21] But I must say in all cander that no

[1:23] child of poverty, no elderly American,

[1:27] no middle class family has yet benefited

[1:31] from a rigid and unswerving commitment

[1:33] to this principle of all or nothing. The

[1:36] Carter plan provides protection from the

[1:38] cost of catastrophic illness or accident

[1:40] for all Americans, mother and child care

[1:43] from before birth through age 1, blanket

[1:45] coverage for 16 million more poor

[1:47] people, the combining of Medicare and

[1:49] Medicaid into one federal program called

[1:51] healthcare. Health Education and Welfare

[1:54] Secretary Joseph Calfano says this is

[1:56] just phase one of what will be universal

[1:58] health care, but it's all Congress and

[2:00] the budget can stand for now. There's no

[2:03] more chance of uh of passing a total

[2:06] oneshot national health plan on the

[2:08] basis of my consultations than there is

[2:10] of putting an elephant through a

[2:11] keyhole.

[2:12] >> Those congressional leaders who support

[2:14] the health plan hope they can get it

[2:15] through Congress this year, more or less

[2:17] intact. If they do, it will go into

[2:19] effect in 1983 at a cost of $166 billion

[2:23] a year. That's 18 billion a year more

[2:26] than is now being spent on healthcare.

[2:28] Steve Delaney, NBC News, the White

[2:30] House.

[2:32] Kennedy said the president's plan is

[2:34] well-intentioned but otherwise generally

[2:36] appalling in his opinion because it has

[2:38] inadequate cost controls and because it

[2:40] sets up a public plan for the poor and

[2:42] elderly but a private plan for everyone

[2:45] else. The bottom line on the president's

[2:48] program is that we cannot afford it. It

[2:52] is too inflationary and too inequitable.

[2:55] By failing to set a national budget, by

[2:58] inadequately controlling hospital costs,

[3:01] by failing to control doctor's fees in

[3:04] the private sector, by perpetuating two

[3:07] separate and unequal systems of care,

[3:10] the president's plan may well become the

[3:12] straw that breaks the back of the

[3:15] American health care system. Kennedy

[3:18] will not back away from this

[3:19] confrontation with the president even if

[3:21] it gives momentum to the dump Carter

[3:23] movement sometimes called the draft

[3:25] Kennedy movement.

[3:26] >> Tom Pettit, NBC News at the capital.

[3:30] On another subject, last night we heard

[3:32] an official of the Federal Trade

[3:33] Commission complaining that the

[3:35] Department of Energy would not share its

[3:37] figures on gasoline supplies. But today,

[3:40] the Deputy Secretary of Energy said his

[3:42] department had never had a request from

[3:43] the FTC. Everyone is now confused.

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[4:02] >> Every time.

[4:02] >> Use them for half off regular fair on

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[4:11] >> Friendly skies, I'm coming home. [music]

[4:15] friendly. [singing]

[4:16] >> You really did miss me.

[4:20] >> Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes

[4:22] [music] you don't.

[4:25] Joy's got nuts, m don't [music] got rich

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[4:50] >> Senator Herman Telmage of Georgia,

[4:52] accused of financial misconduct, sat in

[4:54] the hearing room today and listened to

[4:56] his ex-wife testify about his money.

[4:59] Cash in $100 bills, she said as much as

[5:03] $40,000,

[5:05] always kept in the pocket of an overcoat

[5:07] hanging in the whole closet. She dipped

[5:10] into it when she needed cash, she said,

[5:12] and this went on for years. She didn't

[5:15] know where the money came from. Here's

[5:16] James Poke.

[5:20] Senator Herman Talmage walked over and

[5:22] shook hands with his former wife, then

[5:24] listened as Betty Talmage testified he

[5:26] had kept cash hidden around their home

[5:28] ever since he was governor of Georgia 30

[5:30] years ago. She said it was a way of

[5:33] life. Television cameras were barred as

[5:35] Mrs. Townage testified that after an

[5:37] argument 5 years ago, she went to their

[5:40] Washington apartment and removed part of

[5:42] the cash that she said Townage kept in

[5:44] the pocket of an overcoat in a bedroom

[5:46] closet. The Senate Ethics Committee

[5:48] lawyer handed her $7,700 in $100 bills.

[5:52] She identified that as what she had left

[5:54] over from the money she took, money that

[5:56] she said had been stuffed in a US Senate

[5:58] envelope bearing Talmage's official

[6:00] signature. Betty Townage said she took

[6:02] about 12 to $15,000 that day and said

[6:06] that was only a third of what Tamage had

[6:08] hidden in the coat pocket, perhaps as

[6:10] much as $40,000 in all. Experts using

[6:13] serial numbers said the cash she took

[6:14] had been put in circulation at a Houston

[6:17] bank eight years ago, but they couldn't

[6:18] trace it any further. Betty Townage said

[6:20] she didn't know how the money got to her

[6:22] husband. Talmage would not comment on

[6:24] the cash in his code. He is expected to

[6:27] testify sometime next week. James Pulk,

[6:30] NBC News. At the capital,

[6:32] >> 60 Americans, most of them women and

[6:34] children, were flown out of Nicaragua

[6:36] today as the fighting intensified in

[6:38] Managa, the capital. Most are the

[6:40] dependents of American embassy

[6:42] employees. A big American Air Force

[6:44] transport from Panama took them out from

[6:46] an airirstrip just outside Managua. Ike

[6:48] Seammens has more on that and on the

[6:50] fighting.

[6:53] Near the United States embassy this

[6:55] morning, government troops continued to

[6:57] fight Sandinista guerrillas. Anyone

[6:59] caught in the gunfire ran for cover.

[7:03] A short time before 60 Americans left

[7:05] the embassy to board an Air Force plane

[7:07] that would take them out. Nicaraguans

[7:10] were not so lucky. Throughout Managua,

[7:12] refugees fled with whatever they could

[7:15] manage, trying to get away from the

[7:16] fighting.

[7:18] I'm in a bario here in Managua. This is

[7:21] a poor section of the city and it is in

[7:23] places like this that fighting has been

[7:25] going on for more than a week. Gorillas

[7:28] are hiding everywhere in the city as the

[7:30] National Guard moves in to try to find

[7:32] them. The shooting is so constant that

[7:34] most have learned to live with it.

[7:36] Everyone here has been affected by the

[7:38] Sandinista uprising.

[7:41] This woman says how horrible all this is

[7:44] and her family is afraid. They have

[7:46] moved in with a friend because she says

[7:48] the Sandenas burned their home. Now the

[7:51] fighting has found them again. When will

[7:54] it end? She asks.

[7:58] >> The fighting and destruction are now

[8:00] closer than ever to the fortified

[8:02] compound from which President Anastasio

[8:04] Samosa directs his troops against the

[8:06] Sandinista guerrillas.

[8:08] Mike Seammon's NBC News Managua.

[8:13] A man from California with a good set of

[8:15] leg and knee muscles crossed the English

[8:18] Channel in a tiny lightweight airplane

[8:21] powered only by his pushing bicycle

[8:24] pedals to turn the propeller England to

[8:27] France. Brian Allen, 26, he made it in

[8:30] less than 3 hours, flying 9 or 10 m an

[8:33] hour in a plane called the Gossamer

[8:35] Albatross, a flimsy contraption weighing

[8:38] about 70 lb. It was a first. Considering

[8:42] the difficulty, it may be a last. Here's

[8:44] Steve Mallerie on the French coast.

[8:49] >> Most people thought it couldn't be done.

[8:51] That 70 lb of fragile synthetic fiber

[8:54] and a 137-lb cyclist just couldn't fly

[8:58] 22 mi across the English Channel. But as

[9:01] Brian Allen easily pedled away from

[9:03] Folkston, England, he suddenly seemed to

[9:06] have a good chance.

[9:08] >> That was the neatest part of the whole

[9:09] flight. just see the the surf and the

[9:11] breakers and and suddenly, you know, it

[9:13] just goes, "Wow." You know,

[9:17] >> during the first third of the flight,

[9:19] the albatross averaged about 9 m an

[9:21] hour. Then Allan encountered a mild

[9:24] headwind that slowed his pace. The

[9:27] albatross came dangerously close to the

[9:29] water. Uh,

[9:30] >> we had very good luck. We had to make a

[9:32] very minor course correction to go

[9:34] around a super peak, but it really

[9:37] didn't affect us at all. Below in the

[9:40] channel, a small flotillaa loaded with

[9:42] support and rescue crews and journalists

[9:45] followed his progress. After about 2

[9:48] hours, the French coast could be seen

[9:49] through the haze. The flight was taking

[9:52] longer than expected. Allan said that

[9:55] during the last 20 minutes, he was

[9:56] troubled with leg cramps. As he

[9:59] approached the rocky French coast, he

[10:01] knew the last few minutes would be the

[10:02] toughest.

[10:04] Well, I was a little scared there for a

[10:06] sec because there was some pretty

[10:08] radical turbulence. Radical for this

[10:10] point.

[10:13] >> Almost 100 people surrounded the

[10:15] aircraft as it touched down. Brian Allen

[10:18] had become the first person to use

[10:20] muscle power to fly across the English

[10:22] Channel. When asked about his historical

[10:25] significance, he was matter of fact.

[10:30] >> I know I view myself as pretty tired.

[10:32] The flight of the Gossamer Albatross won

[10:34] a $200,000 prize from the British

[10:37] Aeronautical Society. The 2 and 3/4 hour

[10:40] pedal power flight earned about $1,200 a

[10:44] minute.

[10:45] >> Steve Mallerie, NBC News, Captain

[10:48] France.

[10:54] I can tell by the happy mood [music]

[10:57] you're in. By that ever

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[11:26] >> Samos declares war on the high cost of

[11:29] breakfast with a $169 special breakfast.

[11:33] >> Oh, $1.69 for all that food.

[11:36] >> $169.

[11:38] Two eggs, sausage, hash browns, toast.

[11:41] >> All for $1.69.

[11:44] >> 169.

[11:46] Win the war against the high cost of

[11:48] breakfast

[11:50] at Samos.

[11:51] >> $169. $169. I win.

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[12:32] >> Joanie and me, we have good friends and

[12:35] we have great times together. But, you

[12:37] know, the times we like best are the

[12:39] times we spend with just the two of us.

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[13:03] Public opinion polls have shown this

[13:05] year that the American people believe

[13:06] the Russians are likely to cheat on the

[13:08] Salt 2 treaty limiting nuclear weapons.

[13:11] This is a widely held belief despite the

[13:13] fact that officials in a position to

[13:14] know, including former Secretary of

[13:16] State Kissinger, say the Russians did

[13:18] not cheat in any meaningful way on the

[13:20] first salt treaty. In any case,

[13:22] verification of the treaty will be one

[13:24] of the key issues in the Senate debate

[13:26] on the treaty. And we've asked Ford

[13:27] Rowan to look into the whole business.

[13:31] What if the Russians cheat? Suppose they

[13:34] build bigger and better weapons than

[13:36] allowed by Salt. Would the United States

[13:38] find out? The United States relies on

[13:41] space satellites and other electronic

[13:42] monitors to watch what the Soviets are

[13:44] doing. Pictures from spy in the sky

[13:46] satellites are secret and much more

[13:48] detailed and revealing than these

[13:50] unclassified photographs. But the

[13:52] secrets have been compromised. In two

[13:54] espionage cases, the Russians bought

[13:56] information about three satellite

[13:57] systems. Keyhole, which takes

[13:59] photographs, Riolite, which listens to

[14:01] missile telemetry, and Argus, which

[14:03] monitors radio transmissions. But the

[14:05] biggest problem started back on Earth in

[14:08] Iran when the US was forced to close

[14:10] down monitoring stations near the Soviet

[14:12] border. A major loss according to the

[14:14] former head of Air Force intelligence.

[14:16] The Salt Treaty, as I presently

[14:19] understand it, cannot in any way be

[14:23] verified.

[14:24] The assumptions and public statements

[14:26] made by this administration regarding

[14:29] verification in my best judgment are

[14:32] fraudulent and so intended to deceive

[14:35] the American people. The new salt treaty

[14:37] would limit the development of new and

[14:39] bigger missiles as well as the number of

[14:41] multiple warheads MVs that can be placed

[14:43] on missiles. When the Russians launch a

[14:46] missile at their test site in Turatam,

[14:48] American infrared satellites pick up the

[14:50] heat of the rocket engines. The two

[14:52] Iranian listening posts are missed at

[14:54] this point because they had a clear look

[14:55] at the test site and the early stages of

[14:57] flight. But as the missile gains

[14:59] altitude, it is monitored by radar

[15:01] stations farther away in Turkey, by

[15:03] other satellites, and as it nears the

[15:05] Pacific, by ships and radar stations in

[15:08] Alaska. Former CIA officer Herbert

[15:10] Scoville says these downrange monitors

[15:13] can check to see if the Soviets have

[15:14] violated salt limits on MV. I am

[15:18] absolutely certain we can verify the

[15:19] Salt 2 agreement as it is is now

[15:21] written. Not only do we have all these

[15:23] capabilities, but the Salt 2 agreement

[15:25] has specifically written into it a large

[15:28] number of provisions which facilitate

[15:31] verification which actually will improve

[15:33] our intelligence over what we have

[15:35] today. To improve intelligence, the

[15:37] administration has ordered a crash

[15:39] program to use such things as U2 spy

[15:41] planes along the Soviet border to make

[15:43] up for the loss of the Iranian bases.

[15:46] But some say it would not be enough to

[15:47] compensate for the losses in Iran.

[15:50] >> I think it's fraudulent for the

[15:51] administration to come forward and and

[15:54] try to give the American people the

[15:56] impression that you can replace those

[15:58] capabilities. Those capabilities gave us

[16:01] a 24-hour watch with all sorts of

[16:04] sensors over the two most important

[16:06] facilities in the Soviet Union for

[16:08] verification.

[16:10] CIA Director Stansfield Turner has

[16:12] angered some leaders in the

[16:13] administration by conceding that it

[16:15] would take 5 years before the CIA

[16:17] recovered the capabilities lost in Iran.

[16:20] Furthermore, Turner says there's no way

[16:22] he can be certain salt can be verified.

[16:24] Is salt worth the risk the Russians will

[16:26] cheat? In a recent speech, Turner said

[16:28] he'd leave that up to the president and

[16:30] his advisers. policymaker must also say

[16:34] in view of the fact Turner hasn't got

[16:36] 101% assurance on any of these things

[16:41] are the risks to our country worth it

[16:43] are the benefits of having these

[16:45] controls worth whatever degree of

[16:48] possibility there is from the monitoring

[16:50] evaluation that it could be

[16:53] circumscribed or circumvented or

[16:56] whatever the right word is

[16:58] cheat

[17:00] President Carter and Defense Secretary

[17:02] Brown have insisted that the United

[17:03] States will have the ability to

[17:05] adequately verify Soviet actions under

[17:07] the SALT agreement. They argue that

[17:10] without SALT and its rules forbidding

[17:12] concealment, it would be even harder to

[17:14] find out what the Soviets were doing.

[17:17] Ford Rowan, NBC News, Washington.

[17:20] Senator Henry Jackson released the text

[17:22] of a speech today in which he mounts a

[17:24] very tough attack on the Carter

[17:26] administration stand on the salt treaty.

[17:28] The White House is saying that if the

[17:29] Senate votes amendments and changes to

[17:32] the treaty that will force the Soviets

[17:33] into new demands which could kill the

[17:35] treaty. Jackson in his speech of today

[17:38] says that attitude is appeasement. His

[17:40] word ominously reminiscent he says of

[17:43] statements made by an unprepared British

[17:45] government as Adolf Hitler prepared for

[17:47] war.

[17:50] >> Americ

[17:53] healthy American family. There they are.

[17:56] When we have a health problem, like

[17:58] occasional constipation, we like to do

[18:01] something about it. We take something

[18:03] gentle. XLax. We know it's safe. We take

[18:07] it just the way it says to. We learned

[18:09] years ago that XLax works gently. So,

[18:13] when we need it, we take XLax. Don't

[18:16] you?

[18:17] >> Dependable XLax, a laxative medicine.

[18:21] >> Today, a lot of you men are cheating

[18:23] your wives, and you don't even realize

[18:25] it. Take my husband. Every morning he

[18:27] puts on Old Spice. M. It's such a turn

[18:31] on. And he's off to share it with

[18:33] everybody but me.

[18:36] >> Why can't he use Old Spice when we're

[18:37] together at night? Maybe he needs a

[18:40] little hint.

[18:41] >> Oh, hi Eddie.

[18:42] >> Hi.

[18:44] >> Old Spice at night. What a great idea

[18:46] for both of us.

[18:47] >> Old Spice. Share it with someone you

[18:49] love tonight.

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[19:24] >> Your turn, Willie.

[19:25] >> The more you take, the more you give.

[19:28] >> Last night, a big jetliner was hijacked

[19:30] to Cuba. The first such hijacking in

[19:32] more than four years. The plane, with

[19:34] 206 people aboard, was on its way from

[19:36] New York to Fort Lauderdale when a

[19:38] bearded man in a green army shirt

[19:40] entered the cockpit and took the plane

[19:42] over. It landed in Havana. Today, it

[19:44] returned to Miami with 205 people. The

[19:47] Cubans put the hijacker in handcuffs and

[19:49] let him away. Sandy Gilmore was in Miami

[19:52] when Delta Flight 1061 returned.

[19:57] >> They'd spent 5 hours in Cuba and early

[20:00] this morning, passengers were weary, but

[20:02] all right. Passenger Judith Sirinac said

[20:05] the Cubans were nice.

[20:06] >> We're very well treated. Everyone was

[20:08] polite. Um they opened up the bar and

[20:10] the bank and we bought beers and just

[20:12] sat for four hours. And 9-year-old Bob

[20:15] Wescowitz said nobody panicked

[20:18] >> on the plane. I heard that there was a

[20:20] hijack. So I did what they did and I

[20:24] just kept calm.

[20:26] >> Captain Vince Dota cheerfully brushed

[20:28] aside questioners even though the

[20:30] hijacker had threatened the first

[20:32] officer and claimed he had a knife as

[20:34] well as a bomb in his duffel bag. Today,

[20:36] the State Department tentatively

[20:38] identified the hijacker as the man who

[20:40] used this Soviet-made MIG 17 to defect

[20:44] from Cuba to the United States in 1969.

[20:48] 37-year-old Eduardo Guerrero Himees

[20:51] lived under political asylum in the US,

[20:53] but said he couldn't get a job. He was

[20:56] arrested for selling marijuana,

[20:57] convicted of robbery, jailed for driving

[20:59] a taxi cab into a New York fireman. In

[21:03] 1976, he told a judge he wanted to go

[21:06] home. Last night, as crew members and

[21:08] passengers came home to the US, Eduardo

[21:11] Aguero was back in his homeland. His

[21:13] fate lies now with Fidel Castro. Sandy

[21:16] Gilmore, NBC News, Miami.

[21:20] >> Briefly today in Strasburg, France,

[21:23] European aviation leaders argued at a

[21:25] meeting about grounding their DC10s or

[21:28] keeping them flying. France and others

[21:30] wanted to go on flying them. Germany and

[21:32] Britain wanted them grounded until the

[21:34] investigations are finished. No

[21:36] agreement yet. In New York, Pan-American

[21:39] Airways said it would accept the half

[21:42] fair coupons being given out by its

[21:44] competitors, United and American, which

[21:46] may not be exactly what United and

[21:48] American had in mind. Pan-Amean also

[21:51] announced a coast to coast standby fair

[21:54] of $89.

[21:56] In Boston, the first gasoline station

[21:59] operator arrested for overcharging.

[22:01] Glenn Heler of the Beacon Hill Gulf

[22:04] accused of charging a $142.9

[22:07] for unled 55 cents above the legally

[22:10] allowable price. John. And finally this

[22:14] evening, the obituary of John Wayne, who

[22:16] died of cancer last night, aged 72. Don

[22:19] Oliver has put together some of the high

[22:21] points of Wayne's memorable and

[22:23] distinguished career.

[22:28] Wonder what all the shooting's about.

[22:29] >> I don't know. We better find out.

[22:31] >> And that's just what John Wayne did

[22:33] through 45 years of movie making. Always

[22:36] trying to find out what the shooting was

[22:37] all about and always coming out on the

[22:39] winning side. A young man named Miriam

[22:42] Michael Morrison was a student at USC in

[22:44] the late 20s when he found out he could

[22:46] make a few dollars in the movies. The

[22:48] studios gave him the name John Wayne.

[22:50] And for the next 10 years, he played in

[22:52] a succession of what they call 2 and 1/2

[22:54] day odors, westerns made quickly and

[22:56] badly.

[23:00] [music]

[23:04] 1939, Wayne was hired by director John

[23:07] Ford. The part of the Ringo Kid made him

[23:10] a star.

[23:12] >> Wayne became the tough guy's tough guy,

[23:15] the Duke. hottempered, violent, his

[23:18] swagger his trademark.

[23:19] >> Mr. Dunson, I'll say it just one more

[23:21] time. [music]

[23:26] >> Wayne once admitted that he played

[23:28] pretty much the same character in all

[23:29] his films, be they cowboy or war movies.

[23:33] He said that's what the public wanted.

[23:36] In his later years, he railed against

[23:38] movie pornography and blood [music]

[23:39] spurting violence. His violence, he

[23:42] said, was always tempered with humor.

[23:44] And as for sex in the movies, [music] if

[23:46] it was healthy and lusty, Wayne thought

[23:48] it was wonderful.

[23:49] >> There'll be no locks or bolts between

[23:52] us, Mary Kate, [music] except those in

[23:54] your own mercenary little heart.

[23:59] [music]

[24:06] >> [music]

[24:10] >> Wayne became a controversial political

[24:12] figure, a hardline conservative, a hawk

[24:14] on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he directed

[24:17] and starred in the Green Beretss, which

[24:19] unabashedly endorsed the US war effort

[24:22] in Vietnam. Wayne was criticized, but

[24:24] later when he was asked about it, he

[24:26] never backed down.

[24:29] >> Well, I'm happy I made it. I told the

[24:32] truth. There isn't a lie in the picture.

[24:34] >> Wayne's first bout with cancer was in

[24:36] 1964. He lost a lung then, but he came

[24:39] back to make more [music] movies,

[24:41] including the one that finally won him

[24:43] the honor for which he had waited so

[24:44] long.

[24:45] >> Fill your hand, YOU SON OF A

[24:48] [music]

[25:03] >> [music]

[25:06] >> The Academy Award for the best actor,

[25:08] 1969.

[25:13] >> If I had known that, I'd have put that

[25:15] patch on 35 years earlier. Morning, sir.

[25:18] [music] Good morning.

[25:21] >> This is my birthday. Give me the best in

[25:23] the house. [music]

[25:25] >> The Duke's last movie. He played an

[25:27] aging gunfighter dying of cancer. Wayne

[25:29] said he did not regard it as

[25:31] autobiographical.

[25:33] >> You know, about two weeks ago, they were

[25:35] >> After open heart surgery in 1978, Wayne

[25:38] flew back to California intent on making

[25:40] more movies, but he never really

[25:41] regained his strength. There were only a

[25:44] few commercials shown in [music]

[25:45] California. Commercials that were still

[25:47] on TV after Wayne entered the hospital

[25:49] for the last time.

[25:56] Millions of Americans will remember John

[25:58] Wayne for this, his last public

[26:00] appearance, the 1979 Academy Awards.

[26:12] [music]

[26:25] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

[26:28] That's

[26:30] just about the only medicine fell I'd

[26:33] ever really need.

[26:36] >> John Wayne dead at 72.

[26:40] NBC News will present a special halfhour

[26:43] television special this tonight on John

[26:45] Wayne at 11:30, 10:30 Central time.

[26:48] That's our report this evening. Good

[26:49] night from New York

[26:51] >> and from Washington. Thank you and good

[26:53] night for all of us at NBC News.

[26:59] >> What are you doing, Fred? Putting

[27:01] Olympic latex stain on the house. Stain

[27:03] over paint. Hey, Pete. Fred's putting

[27:05] stain over paint.

[27:07] >> STAIN OVER PAINT. GEORGE FRED'S PUTTING

[27:10] STAIN over paint.

[27:11] >> Watch Olympic latex stain cover. Rich,

[27:14] mellow color.

[27:15] >> Hey, cleans up in water and it lasts for

[27:18] years.

[27:20] What's that stain, Fred? Olympic latex

[27:22] stain. It let you stain over paint.

[27:26] [music]

[27:30] >> WA! LOOK AT THIS. ONE OF THOSE are

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[27:37] your best deal on full radial matic or

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[27:41] $10. Let's get some and celebrate.

[27:46] >> Yes, sir. That's quite a deal. That'll

[27:49] be $10.

[27:51] [music]

[27:53] Better get four more shots.

[27:56] [music]

[28:00] [music]

[28:05] Tomorrow morning on today, HW Secretary

[28:07] Joseph Calfano and Senator Edward

[28:09] Kennedy in separate interviews on

[28:11] President Carter's national health plan.

[28:25] >> A tortured home life turns a young girl

[28:27] into a desperate [music] fugitive on the

[28:29] runaways. Then a mysterious killer

[28:32] prowls the [music] decks of a luxury

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[28:35] >> Claude Akens, Frank Converse, and Patty

[28:37] Duggast star.

[28:41] >> The Runaways followed by Killer on board

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