CBS Evening News open - 1977-10-24

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[0:03] This is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:06] Kronite.

[0:08] Good evening. The question of South

[0:10] Africa and its repressive racial policy

[0:12] is back in the United Nations with a

[0:14] vengeance and with the potential of

[0:16] severe embarrassment for the United

[0:18] States. The black African nations have

[0:20] gone back to the Security Council

[0:22] seeking strong action against South

[0:24] Africa, perhaps even economic boycott.

[0:26] The Carter administration is reluctant

[0:28] to act now because it needs South

[0:31] Africa's help in resolving the more

[0:33] immediate Rhdesian problem. Richard

[0:35] Cottlet reports.

[0:39] The Africans came to the council for

[0:41] immediate action against the government

[0:42] of South Africa and its apartheid policy

[0:45] after what they see as years of empty

[0:47] protest. Mahmudi of Tunisia spoke as

[0:50] chairman of the African group. We're

[0:52] convinced that the hour of truth has

[0:55] arrived. If the United Nations does not

[0:59] meet Pritoria's most recent challenge,

[1:02] then no decisive progress can be made

[1:05] anywhere in southern Africa.

[1:08] >> David Sebecco of the Pan-Africanist

[1:10] Congress, a South African resistance

[1:12] movement, said the UN must intervene to

[1:14] preserve peace with sharp punitive

[1:17] measures.

[1:18] This debate must conclude with the

[1:20] adaption of the resolutions that will

[1:23] pave the way only pave the way to the

[1:27] immediate proclamation of a total arms

[1:30] embargo against apartate South Africa.

[1:33] Pave the way towards the isolation of

[1:35] the aparted regime in the fields of

[1:37] sport and culture. pave the way towards

[1:40] the termination of all joint or exchange

[1:43] scientific projects and towards the

[1:47] total diplomatic isolation

[1:51] of the aparate regime. The United

[1:54] States, Britain, and France have opposed

[1:56] using the UN charter sweeping

[1:57] enforcement powers against South Africa.

[2:00] But if the West remains solid, it

[2:02] antagonizes the Africans. While if the

[2:04] Carter administration now joins the

[2:06] Africans, it breaks with its allies.

[2:09] It's a presidential dilemma. Richard C.

[2:11] Huttle at CBS News United Nations. After

[2:14] that Security Council meeting, US

[2:16] Ambassador Young said he personally

[2:18] favors some form of sanctions against

[2:20] South Africa, but he added the President

[2:22] and Secretary of State will have to

[2:24] decide what sanctions are appropriate in

[2:26] these conditions. South African Prime

[2:28] Minister Foster and the State Department

[2:30] were in dispute today. Foster said in an

[2:33] interview yesterday that he never

[2:35] assured the United States that South

[2:36] Africa would not develop nuclear

[2:38] weapons. But a department spokesman said

[2:40] a formal assurance was made in a letter

[2:43] from Foster to President Carter just 11

[2:45] days ago.

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