CBS Evening News - 1981-03-11
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[0:00] news.
[0:03] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:06] Rather.
[0:08] >> Good evening. President Reagan today
[0:10] ended his 27-hour visit to Canada,
[0:12] leaving behind just as many differences
[0:14] with Prime Minister Trudeau as existed
[0:16] when he arrived, but nevertheless
[0:18] confident that a basis for future
[0:20] cooperation has been established. Leslie
[0:23] Stall has our report from Ottawa.
[0:28] President Reagan got a warm, if not
[0:31] rousing, reception today from the
[0:33] Canadian Parliament.
[0:35] >> A new letter invaded.
[0:41] >> While he glossed over the differences
[0:43] between the two countries, Mr. Reagan
[0:45] remarked pointedly on the Soviet threat
[0:47] in this hemisphere and elsewhere. We
[0:50] must stand together for the integrity of
[0:51] our hemisphere, for the inviability of
[0:54] its nations, for its defense against
[0:57] imported terrorism, and for the rights
[0:59] of all our citizens to be freed from the
[1:02] provocations triggered from outside our
[1:04] sphere for malevolent purposes.
[1:07] >> Mr. Trudeau said Canada is ready to work
[1:09] with the US, but then he seemed to
[1:12] lecture the president on his
[1:13] responsibilities to the third world.
[1:17] I believe that we must neither cower
[1:19] before reality nor oversimplify.
[1:22] Yet complexity should not obscure plain
[1:25] truth on this most favorite of
[1:27] continents. We cannot simply turn our
[1:30] gaze inwards and ignore poverty,
[1:33] ignorance, and injustice elsewhere.
[1:36] >> Later in remarks to the press, Mr.
[1:38] Trudeau admitted that in their private
[1:40] discussion, he had brought up what he
[1:41] called Canada's grievances with the US.
[1:44] It began, of course, with uh an
[1:47] expression of our deep disa