NBC Nightly News - 1977-09-07

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[0:05] This is NBC Nightly News

[0:09] with David Brinkley in Washington and

[0:12] John Chancellor in New York.

[0:16] >> Good evening. Today goes into the

[0:17] history books as the day on which the

[0:19] United States and Panama signed a treaty

[0:21] which could put the Big Ditch under

[0:23] Panameanian control by the end of the

[0:25] century. The president and his diplomats

[0:28] pulled out all the stops for the

[0:30] ceremony attended by representatives,

[0:32] most of them top people from many

[0:34] countries. NBC television will have the

[0:36] formal cere signing on live at 7:30

[0:40] Eastern time this evening. With the

[0:41] president's day so far, here is Bob

[0:43] Jameson.

[0:47] On this day of his canal treaty

[0:48] spectacular, President Carter was

[0:50] engaged not only in the ceremony

[0:52] surrounding it, but the hard cell its

[0:54] approval will require. Like this meeting

[0:56] of 70 prominent Americans invited to the

[0:58] White House for breakfast and a sales

[1:00] pitch on the new treaties. This is part

[1:02] of a careful White House campaign. So

[1:05] too was the president's meeting with

[1:06] senators Stennis and Jackson, defense

[1:08] hardliners he hopes to convert to his

[1:10] view that the treaty is what's good for

[1:12] the USA. But he was not entirely

[1:15] successful. As I said when it went in,

[1:17] I'm not a convert yet for this treaty.

[1:21] >> I have not had an opportunity to read

[1:24] the provisions of the treaty and will

[1:27] not make up my mind until I've had an

[1:29] opportunity to read it and to

[1:31] participate and have the benefit of

[1:33] debate. That's where I stand right now.

[1:36] >> And Mr. Carter continued meeting with

[1:38] officials from Latin American countries.

[1:40] Representatives of 25 nations have come

[1:42] here to dramatize that the treaty is

[1:44] crucial to our future relations with

[1:46] Latin America.

[1:48] Not all the visitors are foreign. Former

[1:50] President Gerald Ford came to town as

[1:52] well, displaying his endorsement of the

[1:54] treaty as part of that same White House

[1:56] campaign to persuade others to approve

[1:58] it. And at the State Department, there

[2:01] was a champagne celebration after the

[2:03] men who negotiated the treaties signed

[2:05] some of the documents. Mr. Carter's

[2:07] spectacular will reach its climax here

[2:09] tonight at the headquarters of the

[2:11] Organization of American States when the

[2:13] president and Panama's General Torio

[2:15] sign the treaties. A big state dinner

[2:17] later will end the ceremony, but the

[2:18] administration will be left with its

[2:20] campaign to sell the treaties to the

[2:22] Senate. Bob Jameson, NBC News, at OAS

[2:25] headquarters in Washington.

[2:27] While it's a carefully arranged and

[2:29] orchestrated ceremony to show wide

[2:31] support for the treaty, it is not

[2:33] unanimous. In the hours before the

[2:35] signing, there were demonstrations

[2:37] against it arranged by several groups of

[2:40] political conservatives. Some members of

[2:42] Congress talked to them, said they hated

[2:44] the whole idea of the treaty and would

[2:46] oppose it all the way. They called it a

[2:49] giveaway. There were signs in the crowd

[2:51] saying, "We bought it, we built it, we

[2:53] paid for it, and it's ours." John,

[2:57] >> the theory that in politics you can't

[3:00] please everybody was also demonstrated

[3:01] today in Panama in a protest staged by

[3:04] high school students. Fred Francis was

[3:06] there. The high school protest was

[3:09] against the Panameanian government for

[3:11] signing a treaty which allows US troops

[3:13] to stay in the canal zone. Many of the

[3:15] student leaders took refuge inside a

[3:17] church after defacing the foreign

[3:19] ministry building. It was the students

[3:21] most defiant act to date against their

[3:23] own leaders. They said that Panama

[3:25] cannot be sovereign with 10,000 American

[3:28] soldiers present

[3:30] here in the canal zone. The Americans

[3:32] who are against the treaty are not

[3:33] nearly as defiant. In fact, most of the

[3:35] fight has gone out of their protest. A

[3:37] few radicals tried to organize a strike

[3:39] for today, but could not. And tonight,

[3:41] in one final gesture of disapproval, a

[3:43] few hundred zonians of the several

[3:45] thousand who live here will stage a

[3:46] candlelight funeral march at the same

[3:48] time the treaty is being signed in

[3:50] Washington. Fred Francis, NBC News. In

[3:53] the Panama Canal Zone,

[3:56] >> General Torios of Panama, if this treaty

[3:59] is ratified, he will be a hero down

[4:00] there. If it is rejected, he will be

[4:03] too. Tom Pettit has looked into this.

[4:10] The Panameanian head of government on

[4:12] route to lunch today at the Kennedy

[4:14] Center in Washington. He is General Omar

[4:16] Torios, 48 years old. He is the big

[4:19] winner in the treaty propaganda sweep

[4:21] stakes because of what this means back

[4:23] home to be the personification of

[4:25] Panama's honor as he and the American

[4:28] head of government sign a deal to give

[4:30] the canal to Panama in the year 2000. If

[4:33] ratified that deal should keep Toro in

[4:36] power till 2000.

[4:38] He once said, "I don't want to go down

[4:40] in history. I just want to go into the

[4:42] canal zone." Of course, if the treaties

[4:45] are not ratified, torios will just go

[4:47] down. Because it is a panameanian

[4:49] national obsession to get rid of the US

[4:51] flag, riots against the American

[4:54] presence have been common. In ' 64, the

[4:57] last big riots, Torios was a major in

[4:59] the National Guard. By 68, he and other

[5:03] militarists had seized power. And since

[5:05] ' 68, no president of Panama has been

[5:08] elected.

[5:10] He is a man of titles. Brigadier

[5:12] General, commanderin-chief,

[5:14] chief of government, and maximum leader

[5:17] of the revolution. Dictator Torios has

[5:20] met with Tito and with Castro and earned

[5:22] a slightly leftist reputation in the US.

[5:25] But at home, he is popular, except with

[5:28] leftist students who militantly went the

[5:30] canal sooner.

[5:32] They went the canal back tonight before

[5:34] the ink dries. Even so, the general

[5:37] faces less trouble with his left than

[5:39] the president does with the American

[5:41] right. Tom Pettit, NBC News at the

[5:44] Pan-American Union, Washington.

[5:46] And there is still much to be done

[5:48] before the treaty is ratified by the US

[5:50] Senate. Robert Bird, the majority leader

[5:52] in the Senate, said today it is his

[5:54] inclination not to have the full debate

[5:56] until sometime next year. NBC News

[5:59] reached every senator's office today to

[6:01] see what the vote would be right now. We

[6:04] found 22 against the treaty, 35 for the

[6:08] treaty, and 43 undecided. It takes 67 to

[6:12] ratify.

[6:16] This is Roman meal,

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[6:21] recipe for Roman meal is over 60 years

[6:23] old. It calls for the finest whole

[6:26] grains available, milled in a special

[6:28] way to retain the nutrients as well as

[6:30] the natural whole grain flavor. When

[6:33] combined with other ingredients in the

[6:35] exact amount, you get a good tasting

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[6:42] >> The Roman Meal company thought you'd

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[6:46] >> Oh, here's the jam.

[6:48] >> Nonsense. It's for our little league

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[6:51] >> Thanks. More meatloaf.

[6:54] >> You know that plastic wrap is opening?

[6:55] >> Well, sometimes plastic wraps cling,

[6:57] sometimes they don't. You can't always

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[7:53] >> The controller of the currency is not

[7:55] one of your famous federal agencies. It

[7:58] regulates banks and that normally is

[8:00] dull work and so not much is heard from

[8:02] the agency in public but now it has

[8:04] another still another report on Bert

[8:07] Lance and how he overdraws his bank

[8:10] accounts and how he borrows money.

[8:12] Irving Arvine.

[8:13] >> Bert Lance's checking account in his

[8:15] Calhoun, Georgia bank was overdrawn by

[8:17] almost $200,000 the week before Lance

[8:21] became budget director, according to the

[8:23] latest controllers report, even though

[8:25] the controller had forbidden such

[8:27] overdrafts. The report also describes

[8:30] how Lance used his position as a Georgia

[8:32] banker to get personal loans. In 1974,

[8:36] Lance's Calhoun Bank placed an

[8:39] interest-free deposit in the Fulton Bank

[8:41] in Atlanta, and Lance promptly got

[8:44] $800,000 in personal loans from the

[8:47] Fulton Bank. With the loan, Lance bought

[8:50] into two other small town Georgia banks

[8:52] in Ringold and Chadzsworth. While

[8:55] critical of Lance, the controllers's

[8:58] report said, "We do not believe that the

[9:00] prosecution of any individuals is

[9:02] warranted." But the matter was turned

[9:04] over to two other government agencies

[9:07] for further investigation.

[9:10] Lance, who spent the day in his office,

[9:12] had no comment on all of this, but his

[9:14] aids insisted that he has no intention

[9:17] of resigning, even though some senators

[9:19] say they've heard that Lance will resign

[9:22] after he presents his side of the story

[9:24] to a Senate committee next week. Irving

[9:27] R. Leavine, NBC News, Washington.

[9:31] Among the administration's other

[9:33] problems is the job situation for

[9:34] minorities, especially for young black

[9:37] men. Their unemployment rate is a

[9:39] stunning 34%, a record. Today, the

[9:42] president met with blacks from the

[9:44] Congress and said administration policy

[9:46] in this area would change. Bill Lynch

[9:48] has the story. The president met with

[9:50] the Congressional Black Caucus after

[9:52] getting a report from Labor Secretary

[9:54] Ray Marshall. That report blamed last

[9:56] month's sharp rise in non-white

[9:57] unemployment in part on the failure of

[9:59] the Carter economic stimulus program to

[10:01] reach the inner cities. Mr. Carter said

[10:03] he's now decided to make full employment

[10:05] legislation a top priority.

[10:07] >> Obviously, something's got to change.

[10:10] There's got to be a re emphasis

[10:13] on addressing government sponsored

[10:16] employment opportunities among those who

[10:18] need the opportunities most. The

[10:21] president said he wants the emphasis on

[10:23] private jobs rather than on government

[10:25] employment. He endorsed the major

[10:26] provisions of the Humphrey Hawkins bill,

[10:28] but expressed reservations about the

[10:30] bill's firm unemployment target and the

[10:32] role of the government as employer of

[10:34] last resort. Caucus Chairman Pon

[10:36] Mitchell said today's commitment to full

[10:38] employment is more valuable than the one

[10:40] Mr. Carter made during the campaign.

[10:43] uh one expects one expects that

[10:45] candidates uh uh in their rhetoric often

[10:48] make all kinds of promises. As a general

[10:51] rule, one does not expect a president of

[10:53] the United States to make a promise that

[10:54] he's not going to deliver on. That's the

[10:56] difference. Mr. Carter told his aids to

[10:58] help work out differences on Humphrey

[11:00] Hawkins over the next 10 days and said

[11:02] he looks forward to having a bill the

[11:03] administration can support. Bill Lynch,

[11:06] NBC News, the White House.

[11:08] >> When G. Gordon Litty went to prison for

[11:10] the Watergate burglary. He said they

[11:12] could shoot him down in the street and

[11:14] he would never tell anything. He never

[11:16] did. And today when he left prison on

[11:18] parole, he still didn't. Here's Carl

[11:21] Stern.

[11:26] >> G. Gordon Litty left prison saying as

[11:28] little as when he went into prison four

[11:30] years ago.

[11:31] >> Mr. Litty, do you want to say anything

[11:33] at all?

[11:34] >> What are you going to do now?

[11:37] Will you be going on vacation now? Mr.

[11:39] Litty,

[11:40] >> are you going to talk for a price now?

[11:43] >> Sir, aren't you going to say anything,

[11:46] Mr. Litty?

[11:46] >> Okay, that's fine.

[11:53] >> Where are you heading for, Mr. Litty?

[11:54] Can you tell us?

[11:56] >> East of the sun and west of the moon.

[11:58] What kind of job offers are you? Mr. Ly,

[12:02] >> here's an easy one for you, Mr. Litty.

[12:04] How do you feel?

[12:10] Litty then shut the car trunk with a

[12:12] karate chop.

[12:14] His statement in German means that they

[12:16] did not kill me makes me stronger.

[12:19] The litties plan to spend the night at a

[12:21] hotel in the Washington DC area and to

[12:23] go home to their five children tomorrow.

[12:26] Carl Stern, NBC News, Danbury,

[12:29] Connecticut.

[12:31] Yesterday, Dong Xiaoing, the vice

[12:33] premier of China, said that in 1975,

[12:36] Gerald Ford told the Chinese he was

[12:38] ready to recognize Ping and to end

[12:40] diplomatic relations with the Chinese

[12:42] nationalists on Taiwan. That of course

[12:44] would have been contingent on Mr. Ford's

[12:47] re-election, which didn't happen. Today,

[12:49] Mr. Ford gave his recollection of what

[12:51] he said to the Chinese, and it isn't

[12:53] quite as simple as outlined by Vice

[12:55] Premier Dong. John Cochran has the

[12:57] story.

[13:00] The former president came to Washington

[13:02] for the Panama Canal treaty ceremonies,

[13:04] but first he wanted to settle the

[13:05] controversy over China. Mr. Ford says he

[13:08] never promised to end America's alliance

[13:10] with Taiwan. He says he did suggest that

[13:12] possibility when he was in China two

[13:14] years ago, but only if China guaranteed

[13:16] peaceful relations with Taiwan. And he

[13:19] thinks President Carter should avoid

[13:20] breaking off relations with Taiwan until

[13:22] after the Panama Canal issue is

[13:24] resolved. The ratification of the Panama

[13:28] Canal treaty or treaties will be a very

[13:31] difficult struggle in the Senate.

[13:34] Therefore, I don't believe it wise at

[13:36] this point to fill the platter too full.

[13:40] You better take one at a time and make

[13:42] success in this the Panama treaty the

[13:45] most important resolutions.

[13:48] >> On that, Mr. Ford and President Carter

[13:50] are in full agreement. The Carter

[13:52] administration seems to be in no hurry

[13:54] to anger conservatives further by ending

[13:57] this country's long-standing commitment

[13:58] to Taiwan.

[14:00] John Cochran, NBC News, the White House.

[14:04] Prime Minister James Callahan of Britain

[14:05] won a victory today. He hopes the

[14:08] British trades unions voted to wait

[14:10] another 12 months before asking for pay

[14:12] increases, which greatly helps Callahan

[14:14] in his fight against Britain's 17%

[14:17] annual inflation. His problem, some of

[14:19] the unions may not go along with today's

[14:21] vote at the Trades Union Congress. The

[14:24] West German industrialist Hans Martin

[14:26] Schllayer is apparently still in the

[14:28] hands of left-wing kidnappers. Today,

[14:31] those kidnappers demanded the release

[14:32] and safe conduct out of the country of

[14:35] 11 of their jailed colleagues along with

[14:37] about half a million dollars. The West

[14:39] German cabinet was meeting to consider

[14:41] their demands. David,

[14:44] >> the Washington Star reports that Billy

[14:46] Carter, pressing on with his new public

[14:49] career, now plans to appear in a movie

[14:52] about a boxing match with a kangaroo.

[14:55] Some striking new crime figures from the

[14:57] Chicago Police Department. They show

[14:59] that for the first time in history, more

[15:02] wives killed their husbands than

[15:04] husbands killed their wives. The police

[15:06] said, quote, "Since women are more

[15:09] independent now, it is not surprising."

[15:16] >> Energy.

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[16:21] What do doctors recommend to avoid

[16:24] constipation? Exercise, liquids, and a

[16:27] diet rich in bulk. But when you

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[16:32] doctors recommend Metamucil more often

[16:34] than any other laxative. Metamucil

[16:37] contains no chemical stimulants. It's

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[16:45] way to overcome constipation is the

[16:47] natural way, but if not nature,

[16:49] Metamucil.

[16:53] On segment three this evening, the

[16:54] second of Brian Ross' two-part report on

[16:57] how gangsters dominate the docks in some

[17:00] of this country's biggest east coast and

[17:02] Gulf ports and how big shipping

[17:05] companies pay them off to avoid trouble.

[17:08] >> This is a scene from On the Waterfront,

[17:11] a movie made in 1954 about corruption on

[17:14] the docks. Wait a minute. YOU TAKE THE

[17:17] GOOD GOODS AWAY AND THE KICKBACKS AND A

[17:20] SHAKEDDOWN CABBAGE AND THEM PISTOL

[17:21] ARROWS AND YOU'RE NOTHING. YOUR GUTS IS

[17:24] ALL IN YOUR WALLET AND YOUR TRIGGER

[17:26] THINGY. YOU KNOW THAT YOU RATHER THAN

[17:28] US, CARRIE.

[17:32] >> Marlon Brando played the role of a long

[17:34] sherman fighting union corruption. A

[17:37] real life problem then and a real life

[17:39] problem now. The port of Miami.

[17:43] Nothing moves here. No one works here

[17:46] without the approval of racketeers and

[17:48] hoodlams. Many of them officers of the

[17:51] International Long Shortman's

[17:52] Association.

[17:54] For years, the only way to do business

[17:56] here has been the mob way. And the

[17:58] shipping companies have gone along with

[18:00] it, become part of it. But two years

[18:02] ago, one member of this closed society,

[18:05] a Miami shipping executive, went too

[18:07] far.

[18:08] >> You went into the office.

[18:09] >> He hired this man to kill someone in a

[18:11] business dispute. He wanted me to kill

[18:15] uh the president of the president of the

[18:18] Bank of Honduras.

[18:20] >> What was the arrangement that you worked

[18:22] out?

[18:23] >> Well, he told me he'll pay my expenses

[18:25] and all plus $10,000

[18:28] when I get back. And he told me to I

[18:33] told him if I could put a gun on one of

[18:35] his ships to get there. He said, "No."

[18:37] He told me, "Uh, I think it's better if

[18:40] you get a nice pick and stick them in

[18:42] the throat."

[18:43] >> But the murder never happened. This man

[18:45] was working for the police. The shipping

[18:47] executive was caught, convicted, and

[18:50] began talking about how the mob runs the

[18:52] docks in this country.

[18:54] >> For the first time, the FBI had a high

[18:56] level informant on the waterfront. and

[18:59] FBI agents introduced as the informance

[19:01] business associates were in the same

[19:03] room when mob figures came to collect

[19:05] tens of thousands of dollars in

[19:07] extortion payments. Payments from some

[19:09] of the biggest shipping companies in the

[19:10] country. The FBI organized what came to

[19:13] be known as Operation Unrack. The

[19:16] government says Operation Unrackck is

[19:19] the biggest move ever against Union

[19:20] racketeering.

[19:24] Operating out of Miami, the undercover

[19:26] FBI agents went to every major port from

[19:29] New Orleans to New York, gathering

[19:31] evidence against organized crime

[19:32] figures, officers of the Long Shoreman's

[19:35] Union, and shipping company executives.

[19:38] Grand juries here in Miami and in New

[19:40] York began hearing this evidence 7

[19:42] months ago. Major shipping companies

[19:44] were ordered to produce their records,

[19:46] and government auditors have been going

[19:48] through them looking for hidden payments

[19:50] to organize crime. Many shipping company

[19:53] executives refused to cooperate with the

[19:55] government. This one ran away from

[19:57] photographers.

[20:01] Now NBC News has learned that a number

[20:03] of shipping executives will be indicted

[20:05] soon along with union officers and mob

[20:07] figures.

[20:10] Under all this government pressure, some

[20:12] shipping companies have begun to

[20:14] disclose illegal payments in documents

[20:16] filed with the Securities and Exchange

[20:18] Commission.

[20:20] One shipper, United States Lines, a big

[20:22] steamship company, said it had paid

[20:25] $34,500

[20:27] to resolve labor problems,

[20:30] but declined to say what the problems

[20:32] were or to whom the payments were made.

[20:35] Another company, Sealand Service, a

[20:37] subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds, admitted it

[20:40] too had made payments in violation of

[20:42] federal law, but did not say what the

[20:44] payments were for or who received them.

[20:48] Companies disguise payoffs to waterfront

[20:50] gangsters in other ways.

[20:53] FBI agents found that many essential

[20:55] dock services, such as the repair of

[20:57] shipping containers, are controlled by

[20:59] mob fronts. The scheme is companies are

[21:03] forced to pay for work never done and

[21:05] men never hired.

[21:08] Investigators say some of the country's

[21:09] leading corporations have regularly made

[21:11] just such payments, knowing full well

[21:13] they are to the mafia. Well, someone

[21:16] once said, and I'm afraid there's a

[21:17] great deal to confirm it, that there's

[21:20] no morality in a boardroom.

[21:23] >> Aaron Con is the director of the New

[21:24] Orleans Crime Commission.

[21:26] >> Why would the officers and directors of

[21:28] major legitimate shipping companies even

[21:30] sit down with corrupt union officials or

[21:33] organized crime figures?

[21:35] >> It costs thousands of dollars every day

[21:37] to have a ship at dock. Any delay in

[21:41] getting that ship back out again means a

[21:43] terrific bite at a profit. So it's

[21:45] cheaper for them to go ahead with work,

[21:49] make the payoffs, pay the bribes, and to

[21:51] fight it. Exactly.

[21:54] >> The cost of all this is enormous.

[21:57] Millions and millions of dollars. In

[21:59] effect, the mafia and the long

[22:01] shoreman's union have been able to put

[22:03] their own tax on every item moving in or

[22:06] out of the many ports they control. And

[22:09] the FBI's investigation has shown that

[22:11] in case after case, major corporations

[22:14] have gone along with bribes, kickbacks,

[22:16] and payoffs and simply let the consumer

[22:19] pay the price.

[22:21] Brian Ross, NBC News.

[22:29] >> Hey, June. Mom's here. Come on, Red.

[22:32] >> Oh, how

[22:33] >> Oh, they were perfect gentlemen. June, I

[22:35] know Billy ate, but Brad doesn't always

[22:37] like to eat what's good for him.

[22:39] >> No problem here. I gave him Gain's gravy

[22:41] train.

[22:41] >> Gravy train. Gravy train's nutritious

[22:44] and it has the meaty taste dogs love

[22:46] because they based every nugget with

[22:48] natural beef flavor. It's like you based

[22:50] a roast. Gravy train. Meaty tasting

[22:53] because of basting.

[22:54] >> Let's go, Red.

[22:58] >> This woman, my wife, mother of my

[23:01] children, career woman. She's amazing.

[23:04] You know, in an average day, she does

[23:06] more than lots of people do in a week.

[23:07] >> Oh, honey, we both do a lot. As busy as

[23:11] I am, I find the time to do the right

[23:13] things to take care of myself.

[23:14] >> Like taking Geratl every day. Geratl to

[23:17] be sure you get enough iron and some

[23:19] very important vitamins. Take a look at

[23:21] what Geratl can do for you. Isn't she

[23:23] something? Oh,

[23:24] >> come on. Enough already.

[23:26] >> Geratl everyday.

[23:37] Sarah Lee introduces new almond coffee

[23:39] cake.

[23:40] >> I took the Sarah Lee. This coffee cake

[23:44] is the most almond. I just couldn't

[23:48] resist. I took the Sarah Lee.

[23:50] >> Make room. Pecan coffee cake, butter

[23:52] strusel, and cinnamon strusel. Here

[23:54] comes new almond coffee cake with

[23:56] almonds in the filling, almonds on top,

[23:58] and 72 all butter layers everywhere

[24:00] else.

[24:01] >> Nobody can resist Sarah Lee.

[24:06] >> Welcome.

[24:07] >> Briefly at Forest Hills, Tracy Austin,

[24:10] the 14-year-old heroine of the US Open

[24:12] Tennis Championships, lost today. She's

[24:14] out of the tournament. In Columbus,

[24:17] Ohio, a woman died from what may have

[24:19] been another case of Legionnaire's

[24:21] disease. Ethiopia today broke off

[24:23] relations with neighboring Somalia,

[24:25] which could lead to a formal declaration

[24:27] of war. The New York Times says that

[24:29] President Carter favors a pipeline

[24:31] across Canada to move natural gas from

[24:34] Alaska to the lower 48. And the American

[24:37] Medical Association said in Washington

[24:39] that if doctors are allowed to

[24:41] advertise, some of them might run ads

[24:43] saying, "I can cure cancer for $50."

[24:46] David,

[24:48] >> that is a TS630. One of the first

[24:51] television sets ever sold to the

[24:53] American public in the 40s. Made by RCA.

[24:56] 10-in screen, black and white, sold for

[24:59] $495

[25:00] and now a museum piece only 30 years

[25:03] old, but a true antique because the

[25:06] basic idea of it appeared 50 years ago

[25:10] today. As Jack Perkins reports,

[25:12] >> here today to honor Pho T. Farnsworth

[25:15] parenthesis. Some hearing this may think

[25:17] that what follows is farce. The name to

[25:20] them sounding farcical, but it's not

[25:22] farce. It's history. End parenthesis.

[25:26] Pho T. Farnsworth was an Idaho farm boy

[25:30] turned inventor.

[25:32] A young man with an ingenious mind who

[25:34] could foresee what tremendous effects it

[25:37] would have on humankind to be able to

[25:39] transmit a picture from one place to

[25:42] another.

[25:43] In other words, he foresaw television.

[25:46] Many people were working on that. But

[25:49] ultimately, it was his invention that

[25:51] showed the way. And it happened 50 years

[25:54] ago today when he was 21 years old.

[25:57] >> Well, Farnsworth is dead now. But this

[25:59] morning, his family, former colleagues,

[26:02] friends gathered to try to reenact the

[26:04] historic moment with replicas of some of

[26:07] his original equipment. With a single

[26:09] line of light being beamed into an

[26:11] electronic dissecting tube

[26:14] and from another tube, a cathode ray

[26:16] tube, the simple image, the straight

[26:18] line being hazily reproduced.

[26:22] The world's first all electronic

[26:24] transmission of television 50 years ago

[26:27] today.

[26:29] Yet in those 50 years, as television

[26:31] grew, the name Pho was mostly forgotten.

[26:35] >> His widow hoped today's little ceremony

[26:37] might finally set the record straight.

[26:40] >> As it is now, school children in this

[26:42] country are taught who invented the

[26:43] cotton gin, but not who invented

[26:45] television. The Farnsworth family

[26:48] doesn't think that's right. After all,

[26:50] no one sits around his living room for

[26:52] eight hours a day watching a cotton gin.

[26:56] Jack Perkins, NBC News, Foothill

[26:58] College, California.

[27:01] >> Thank you. And good night from

[27:03] Washington.

[27:05] And from NBC News in New York, good

[27:07] night to you all.

[27:13] >> Sarah Lee introduces new almond coffee

[27:16] cake.

[27:16] >> I took the Sarah Lee. This coffee cake

[27:20] is the most almond. I just couldn't

[27:24] resist. I took the cereal.

[27:27] >> Make room pecan coffee cake, butter

[27:29] strusel, and cinnamon strusel. Here

[27:31] comes new almond coffee cake with

[27:33] almonds in the filling, almonds on top,

[27:34] and 72 all butter layers everywhere

[27:37] else.

[27:37] >> Nobody can resist.

[27:43] >> Welcome neighbor.

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[27:49] I brought some spare ribs, pizza,

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