NBC Nightly News - 1980-01-20
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[0:02] >> from New York. This is NBC Nightly News
[0:05] [music] with Jessica Savage and Dick
[0:07] Shap in Los Angeles.
[0:10] >> Good evening. President Carter has set a
[0:12] date for a boycott of the Moscow
[0:14] Olympics. That is unless the Russians
[0:16] withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.
[0:18] Mr. Carter speaking on NBC's program
[0:20] Meet the Press gave the Russians one
[0:22] month to get out before he would urge
[0:24] the US Olympic Committee not to
[0:26] participate. A White House official
[0:28] later said Mr. Carter would expect
[0:30] cooperation, but warned if he did not
[0:33] get it, he might deny passports to the
[0:35] Olympic athletes. Bill Lynch reports.
[0:39] >> For two weeks, the administration had
[0:41] been signaling its opposition to holding
[0:43] the games in Moscow. Today, President
[0:45] Carter went on Meet the Press to make it
[0:47] official. I've sent a message today to
[0:49] the United States Olympic Committee
[0:51] spelling out my own position that unless
[0:54] the Soviets withdraw their troops within
[0:57] a month from Afghanistan that the
[1:00] Olympic Games be moved from Moscow to an
[1:03] alternate site or multiple sites
[1:07] or postponed or cancelled.
[1:11] >> White House Council Lloyd Cutler said
[1:13] later that if the committee rejects Mr.
[1:15] Carter's position, the administration
[1:17] might revoke athletes passports and take
[1:20] other steps to keep the American team
[1:22] out of Moscow. In his letter to
[1:24] committee president Robert Kaine, Mr.
[1:26] Carter said the Soviets attach enormous
[1:28] political importance to hosting the
[1:30] games and taking them out of Moscow, he
[1:32] said, would be a powerful signal of
[1:34] world outrage that cannot be hidden fro