ABC Evening News - 1977-10-14

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[0:04] This is the ABC Evening News with Harry

[0:07] Reer and Barbara Walters. And tonight,

[0:09] Ted Cppel and Howard K. Smith in

[0:12] Washington. Bing Cosby died today of a

[0:14] heart attack on a golf course in Spain.

[0:17] This is John Martin.

[0:18] >> Terrorists in the Middle East and Europe

[0:20] sent a Sunday deadline. More than 90

[0:22] lives are at stake. I'm Peter Jennings.

[0:25] President Carter and Panama General

[0:27] Curios clarify US rights under the

[0:30] proposed Panama Canal Treaties. This is

[0:32] Sam Donaldson. Farmers say they're going

[0:35] broke. They drove tractors to Amarillo

[0:37] to call attention to their flight. I'm

[0:39] Charles Murphy.

[0:41] >> Good evening. Harry is on assignment in

[0:43] South Africa. Sad news. Bing Crosby died

[0:46] today while playing golf near Madrid,

[0:48] Spain. He was 73. He collapsed on the

[0:51] course, was rushed to the hospital, but

[0:53] was pronounced dead on arrival. Crosby

[0:55] almost died last year when he fell off a

[0:57] stage while taping a television program.

[0:59] He recovered and said his only problem

[1:01] was that he might not be able to play

[1:03] golf anymore. Bing Crosby leaves behind

[1:05] his widow, Catherine, seven children,

[1:07] and 12 grandchildren. But to all of us,

[1:10] he leaves memories of pleasure. He

[1:12] serenated three generations of lovers

[1:14] and made millions laugh and cry in his

[1:16] film roles. But he never lost touch with

[1:18] himself. John Martin traces his career.

[1:24] >> Born in Tacoma, Washington, raised in

[1:26] Spokane, but he came east in 1926. And

[1:30] when CBS signed him to sing Coast to

[1:32] Coast, as they called it, several nights

[1:34] a week, it was the beginning of a

[1:36] national affection for him. In one 1940s

[1:40] poll, Bing Crosby was more popular than

[1:42] Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, or the

[1:44] Pope.

[1:46] Five months ago in his last television

[1:48] interview, Bing Cosby told Barbara

[1:50] Walters that fame was not something he

[1:52] sought.

[1:54] >> Oh, really?

[1:54] >> You think you're a dull man?

[1:56] >> Well, I think I'm very un very ordinary

[1:59] man.

[2:00] >> You know, when I people think that I'm

[2:03] humble or I'm wallowing in humility when

[2:05] I when I resent being called a legend

[2:08] and all that.

[2:09] >> It's just being realistic. When somebody

[2:11] says that, I am so embarrassed because I

[2:13] know I've never done anything that

[2:15] merits that.

[2:18] >> Did a very great deal. From Bim Crosby's

[2:21] frequent film partner and close friend,

[2:23] Bob Hope. This reaction, I still don't

[2:26] believe it. I'm absolutely numb. Hope

[2:28] had been scheduled to appear in New

[2:29] Jersey tonight, but he's canceled it.

[2:31] And Hope's words, I just can't get funny

[2:33] tonight. I'll be back with a special

[2:35] program, Bing Crosby, a memorial later

[2:38] tonight. That will be 30 minutes after

[2:40] the conclusion of tonight's World Series

[2:42] game in most of the country and on the

[2:44] Pacific Coast at 11:30 Pacific time.

[2:47] Coming up, Heraldo Rivera on Angel Dust

[2:50] and the kids who get in trouble.

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[3:56] Jacqueline Kennedy Onases has quit her

[3:58] job as an editor with Viking Press. the

[4:01] reason a dispute over the firm's

[4:02] publication of a novel in which her

[4:05] brother-in-law, Senator Edward Kennedy,

[4:07] is the target of a fictional

[4:08] assassination plot. A new cancer warning

[4:12] today. The ABC News special reports unit

[4:15] has learned that a major stock brokerage

[4:17] firm has warned its clients that one of

[4:19] the key ingredients in permanent hair

[4:21] coloring dyes has been found to produce

[4:23] cancer in rats and mice. Bill Woodham

[4:26] has more in Washington.

[4:28] The ingredient is called 24 amino anosol

[4:32] sulfate. It was tested by the National

[4:34] Cancer Institute over a three-year

[4:36] period ending in 1975.

[4:38] The results of the study are expected to

[4:40] be published in a few months. Sources at

[4:42] the Food and Drug Administration, which

[4:44] regulates dangerous substances, have

[4:46] confirmed that the preliminary results

[4:48] of the study tend to establish that the

[4:51] chemical produces cancer in animals. It

[4:54] is used in most permanent hair dyes for

[4:57] dark or dull shades of hair by about 10

[4:59] million Americans. Clarall, manufactured

[5:02] by Bristol Meyers, is responsible for

[5:05] 70% of the hair dye business.

[5:08] Clarall's Dr. John Corbett, head of the

[5:10] industry's hair coloring technical

[5:12] committee, said this afternoon that his

[5:14] industry had adequately demonstrated the

[5:17] safety of hair coloring products.

[5:20] The Food and Drug Administration has no

[5:22] legal authority to ban hair dye from the

[5:25] market. It can, as with cigarettes,

[5:27] require manufacturers to place a warning

[5:30] label on their products. This is Bill

[5:33] Weram in Washington.

[5:35] >> To the familiar warning that speed kills

[5:38] might now be added this alert. Angel

[5:40] dust can turn you to dust. As we've

[5:42] reported this week, the chemical PCP or

[5:45] angel dust has replaced amphetamines

[5:47] called speed as the most dangerous new

[5:49] drug fad among the nation's youth.

[5:51] Herado Rivera has more on angel dust.

[5:54] >> As you've seen over the past two days,

[5:56] the dust is everywhere. Spreading out

[5:58] from Southern California until now, it's

[6:00] become one of the most frequently abused

[6:02] drugs in such widely scattered cities as

[6:04] Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, San

[6:08] Francisco, Detroit, and New York. The

[6:11] result has been hundreds of young

[6:13] people, rich, poor, black, and white,

[6:15] overdosing on a drug whose dangers they

[6:17] don't really understand. In cities like

[6:20] Los Angeles, some neighborhoods are so

[6:22] loaded with home laboratories,

[6:24] processing legal chemicals into illegal

[6:26] angel dust that prospective buyers can

[6:29] go around comparison shopping. Narcotics

[6:32] officers in Los Angeles have already

[6:34] made 1,400 arrests of student pushers,

[6:38] but their efforts haven't made a dent in

[6:39] the problem.

[6:40] >> You can make it yourself, okay? And

[6:42] these you got a lot of setup labs here,

[6:44] and these kids are getting it.

[6:46] >> Perhaps the only way to stem the tide is

[6:48] to explain again just how deadly angel

[6:50] dust can be. Dr. Diane Sixmith is in

[6:53] charge of the emergency room here in

[6:55] Harlem Hospital in New York City. How

[6:57] many overdose cases have you had this

[6:59] week, doctor? Interestingly enough,

[7:01] we've seen more than ever before. We had

[7:03] six in the last 3 days, as a matter of

[7:05] fact.

[7:05] >> Just how serious is this drug?

[7:07] >> The worst thing about the drug is that

[7:09] unlike other drugs that the kids on the

[7:11] street are using like marijuana, which

[7:13] have a transient effect and no real harm

[7:14] that we know of, angel dust can produce

[7:17] chronic brain damage and most

[7:19] importantly produce chronic

[7:20] schizophrenia or what people on the

[7:23] street would call craziness. They appear

[7:25] to be acutely psychotic. It can last for

[7:27] a day or it can last for 6 months or a

[7:29] year.

[7:31] >> The most ironic aspect of the PCP crisis

[7:34] is the fact that the chemicals used to

[7:36] make the substance are essentially

[7:38] unregulated, uncontrolled, and

[7:41] available. From the Harlem Hospital

[7:43] Emergency Room, I'm Heraldo Rivera, ABC

[7:45] News in New York.

[7:48] Coming up, Brit Hume on the Korean case

[7:50] and a former congressman.

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[9:57] The possibility of a strike by American

[10:00] farmers was first raised last month in

[10:02] Colorado. It was raised again today in

[10:04] the Texas panhandle where thousands of

[10:06] farmers rally to demand higher prices

[10:08] for their crops. Charles Murphy has the

[10:10] story.

[10:16] >> Texas farmers are mad. They headed their

[10:18] tractors down the interstate highways to

[10:20] Amarillo. They say they can't make cost

[10:23] at today's prices and will strike in

[10:25] December for 100% of parody. If they

[10:28] strike, they plant nothing next year. By

[10:30] parody, they mean they must receive

[10:32] enough for their crops to pay for the

[10:34] cost of production and living. One

[10:36] reason for depressed prices is over

[10:38] production. Though here in West Texas, a

[10:41] drought hurt dryland crops, dealing

[10:43] farmers a double blow. How much did you

[10:45] lose?

[10:47] >> Well, I've got my house up for sale

[10:49] right now.

[10:51] to pay off all my debts and then try to

[10:53] start over if the farm goes that way.

[10:56] Well, I'll just go to town and work for

[10:57] wages. But you're close to the bottom

[11:00] line right now.

[11:01] >> We're there. Factors paraded through

[11:03] Amarillo, then to a fairgrounds where

[11:05] they were joined by about 3,000 farmers

[11:08] from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and a

[11:10] few from more distant states. They

[11:12] signed petitions calling on the

[11:14] president and Congress to hold field

[11:16] hearings next month on their problems.

[11:19] Overhead, a flight of crop duster planes

[11:21] buzzed the meeting site in sympathy.

[11:23] Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Reagan

[11:25] Brown gave one of the fieriest speeches,

[11:28] a warning to consumers.

[11:30] >> And I want to speak to the ones in the

[11:31] brownstone houses in the Bronx of New

[11:34] York and in the city of Chicago and out

[11:38] in San Francisco. If you don't listen to

[11:40] us this afternoon, your belly is going

[11:42] to get mighty empty before long.

[11:45] For a strike to be effective, a lot of

[11:47] farmers will have to take part.

[11:49] Something the American farmer has never

[11:51] done. Right now, these farmers are

[11:53] hoping the threat of a strike will

[11:55] persuade Washington to give them a

[11:57] better deal. Charles Murphy, ABC News,

[12:00] Amarillo.

[12:02] >> President Carter's appeal yesterday for

[12:04] support of his energy package was

[12:06] ignored by a key Senate committee today.

[12:09] The powerful finance committee approved

[12:11] an energy bill with plenty of tax

[12:12] breaks, but none of the tax increases

[12:15] the president wanted to encourage

[12:16] conservation. Don Farmer has details.

[12:20] >> The bill is something for almost

[12:22] everyone. A Christmas tree full of tax

[12:24] incentives for saving and producing

[12:26] energy. It could net 2 and a4 million

[12:28] barrels of oil a day by 1985. But the

[12:31] cost to the taxpayers for all these

[12:33] goodies could be more than $30 billion.

[12:36] Converting boilers from gas and oil over

[12:39] to coal would give businesses the

[12:40] biggest tax break by raising the tax

[12:43] credit to 50%. So the government in

[12:45] effect would pay half the cost for coal

[12:48] conversion. Energy savings a million

[12:50] barrels a day. Cost to the treasury, $21

[12:53] billion. Homeowners could share in the

[12:56] bounty for insulating your home and

[12:58] putting in solar heat or even windmills.

[13:00] You could get up to $2,600 in tax

[13:03] credits. Revenue loss on this one, $7

[13:05] billion. Vans would get a push. The bill

[13:09] would offer a total 20% tax credit for

[13:11] companies which transport workers by van

[13:13] to and from the job. The free rides

[13:16] would not be taxable to employees as

[13:18] income. What this would cost or save an

[13:20] energy, no one knows. Animals also could

[13:23] help. Manure is convertible to gas, so

[13:26] any firm doing that would get an extra

[13:28] 10% tax credit. The committee really is

[13:31] guessing on energy savings and also when

[13:33] it says the plan could create millions

[13:35] of new jobs. The bill includes no new

[13:37] taxes. It has incentives for all cost

[13:39] for none except of course the

[13:41] government. Now the senators who

[13:43] approved all these tax credits hope they

[13:45] can somehow convince the full Congress

[13:47] to vote some new taxes to help pay for

[13:49] them. This is Don Farmer, ABC News at

[13:52] the capital.

[13:54] Richard Hannah, a former Democratic

[13:56] representative from California, was

[13:58] indicted today on 40 counts of bribery,

[14:00] conspiracy, and mail fraud, all stemming

[14:03] from the Korean influence pedalling

[14:05] scandal. He's the first ex- congressman

[14:07] charged in the Justice Department probe.

[14:09] Brit Hume has more.

[14:12] >> His former colleagues recall him as a

[14:14] jovial little guy who usually turned up

[14:16] along with so many others in Washington

[14:18] at the lavish parties given by South

[14:20] Korean businessman Tongen Park. But

[14:22] there has been nothing jovial about

[14:24] Richard Hannah in his rare appearances

[14:26] in Washington recently. He has faced a

[14:28] barrage of questions about his

[14:30] relationship with Park. And today's

[14:32] indictment charges that Hannah, while a

[14:33] congressman, acted as Park's adviser,

[14:36] partner, and fellow agent in a scheme to

[14:38] win influence in Washington for the

[14:40] South Korean government. The indictment

[14:42] details how over an 8-year period, Park

[14:44] allegedly paid Hannah at least $75,000

[14:48] with checks drawn on various Park

[14:50] accounts. It says Park bought a Cadillac

[14:52] for Hannah to use from this Washington

[14:54] dealer and later sold it to Hannah for

[14:56] half its worth. The indictment says Park

[14:58] also paid Hannah's way into Park's

[15:00] exclusive Georgetown club and threw

[15:03] parties there for Hannah and his staff.

[15:05] In return, says the indictment, Hannah

[15:07] wrote numerous letters on Park's behalf

[15:09] to US and Korean officials and helped

[15:11] Park obtain procorea statements and

[15:14] letters from congressmen and also help

[15:16] Park designate members of Congress to be

[15:18] given cash, gifts, and campaign

[15:20] contributions.

[15:23] Hannah was unavailable today, but his

[15:25] lawyer strongly denied the charges. All

[15:28] along, Hannah has said he was

[15:29] cooperating fully telling the whole

[15:31] truth. But investigators here at the

[15:33] Justice Department didn't believe it.

[15:35] And that's one reason Hannah is a

[15:36] defendant tonight instead of just a

[15:38] witness. This is Britt Hume, ABC News,

[15:41] Washington.

[15:42] >> A federal judge today reduced John

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[15:46] plumbers case. That following last

[15:48] week's reduction of his Watergate

[15:50] coverup sentence makes Erlickman

[15:52] eligible for parole from federal prison

[15:54] in two weeks.

[15:57] Coming up, Peter Jennings on a drama

[15:58] involving life and death by skyjacking.

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[18:06] This is Ted Copel at the State

[18:07] Department. The focus of attention here

[18:09] in Washington today was Panama and the

[18:12] mounting debate over the new Panama

[18:14] Canal treaties. There never was any

[18:16] disagreement over what the treaties

[18:17] said, but there has been an enormous

[18:19] amount of confusion over what they mean.

[18:22] Confusion just added to the existing

[18:24] opposition to the treaties, and it began

[18:26] to look, in fact, as though the White

[18:27] House didn't have enough votes in the US

[18:29] Senate, to ratify them. So, President

[18:31] Carter invited Panama's Omar Torios, who

[18:34] was in Europe, to stop off in Washington

[18:36] on his way home for purposes of

[18:38] clarification. They met this moment and

[18:41] as White House correspondent Sam

[18:43] Donaldelsson reports, apparently they're

[18:44] both satisfied.

[18:47] >> It was President Carter who asked

[18:49] General To stop by the White House to

[18:51] discuss and Mr. Carter hoped clarify

[18:53] Panama's attitude toward the

[18:55] controversial portions of the treaties.

[18:57] Would the US have the indefinite right

[18:59] to defend the canal when Washington

[19:01] thought it necessary? Would US ships be

[19:03] given a move to the head of the line

[19:04] priority in passage? By early afternoon,

[19:07] the president was able to tell a group

[19:09] of editors that the two nations had

[19:11] successfully resolved the differences in

[19:13] interpretation. And before leaving for

[19:15] Panama, General Tillos confirmed through

[19:17] his English-speaking ambassador that

[19:19] while the US could not intervene in

[19:21] Panama's affairs, the US could defend

[19:23] the canal against outside attacks.

[19:26] He say that if a great power attacks the

[19:30] canal or put in danger the canal, it is

[19:34] the right of the United States to go and

[19:37] defend the canal.

[19:39] >> Later, US negotiator Saul Linowitz read

[19:41] from the official statement of

[19:43] understanding. Panama and the United

[19:45] States have the responsibility to

[19:47] asssure that the Panama Canal will

[19:50] remain open and secure to ships of all

[19:53] nations.

[19:55] A correct interpretation of this

[19:57] principle is that each of the two

[20:00] countries shall in accordance with their

[20:03] respective constitutional processes

[20:07] defend the canal against any threat to

[20:11] the regime of neutrality.

[20:14] and consequently

[20:15] shall have the right to act against any

[20:19] aggression or threat directed against

[20:22] the canal or against the peaceful

[20:25] transit of vessels through the canal.

[20:28] The statement also says that expeditious

[20:30] passage of US warships through the canal

[20:32] means that in case of need or emergency,

[20:34] they go to the head of the line. These

[20:37] clarifications do seem to go a long way

[20:39] toward satisfying concerns voiced about

[20:41] US interests. asked whether they will

[20:43] end the controversy. Ambassador Lenowitz

[20:46] replied, "God in the Senate willing."

[20:48] We'll see. Sam Donaldson, ABC News, the

[20:52] White House.

[20:53] The actual language of the treaties

[20:55] themselves can't be changed. That would

[20:57] mean reopening negotiations, and neither

[21:00] government wants to risk that. The

[21:02] question now is whether today's

[21:04] clarification is going to reassure

[21:06] enough senators so that the treaties

[21:07] will get the necessary 2/3 majority.

[21:10] That vote probably won't come until

[21:12] sometime next year. In the meantime, the

[21:14] Senate Foreign Relations Committee is

[21:16] still hearing testimony, and this

[21:18] morning they got two of the most

[21:20] persuasive advocates of the treaty that

[21:22] the administration could find. Charles

[21:24] Gibson reports.

[21:26] Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger are the

[21:28] old hands. Their use by the

[21:30] administration as defenders of the

[21:31] treaties underscores the fact that the

[21:33] last four presidents, Johnson, Nixon,

[21:35] Ford, and Carter, have all favored a new

[21:37] relationship with Panama. Kissinger and

[21:39] Rosk attacked the specific objections of

[21:41] treaty critics. First, that the US is

[21:44] giving up the canal.

[21:45] >> If, god forbid, it should ever become

[21:47] necessary for a president and a congress

[21:49] to take strong measures to keep the

[21:51] canal functioning and safe, they would,

[21:54] in my judgment, be in a much stronger

[21:56] position to do so under the treaties of

[21:59] 1977 than under the anacronistic treaty

[22:02] of 193.

[22:04] second that the US is on the run

[22:05] internationally yielding and retreating

[22:08] around the globe.

[22:09] >> I can understand the feelings of those

[22:13] who do not wish to see any further

[22:16] American retreats

[22:19] and indeed I agree with them.

[22:23] But we have to choose the right issue on

[22:27] which to take a stand. and simply

[22:30] maintaining every status quo that exists

[22:32] around the world is not a strong policy.

[22:35] >> Kissinger said the treaty does give the

[22:37] US the right to defend the canal, but

[22:39] admitted the language of the treaty is

[22:41] ambiguous. He said the Senate might want

[22:43] to add a clarifier when and if it

[22:46] ratifies the treaties. Charles Gibson,

[22:48] ABC News, Capitol Hill.

[22:51] Panama may be the most visible, but it

[22:53] wasn't the only foreign policy concern

[22:55] in Washington today. This past Tuesday,

[22:58] according to the Pentagon, two Soviet

[23:00] long range patrol bombers flying out of

[23:02] Cuban bases shadowed and photographed

[23:04] the destroyer USS Spruce, which was

[23:06] cruising about 300 miles off our east

[23:09] coast. What alarms the Pentagon is that

[23:12] the Russians dropped pieces of metal

[23:13] foil to jam US radar. This is Ted Cppel

[23:17] at the State Department.

[23:19] The West German jet that was hijacked

[23:21] over the French Riviera yesterday is in

[23:23] Dubai tonight after refueling stops in

[23:26] Italy and Cyprus. The four terrorists

[23:28] have threatened to kill all their

[23:29] hostages on Sunday unless $15 million in

[23:32] ransom is paid and 13 imprisoned

[23:35] comrades are freed. Peter Jennings has

[23:37] more. On the tarmac at Dubai airport in

[23:40] the Persian Gulf, Arab and German

[23:42] negotiators are trying to win freedom

[23:44] for some 90 people, including the crew

[23:46] on board the isolated Lanza jet. The

[23:49] stakes are high. The gunmen on board

[23:51] have already fired shots to warn off

[23:53] Arab workers trying to clean the plane's

[23:55] toilets. The passengers, including 11

[23:58] beauty queens on holiday, are now pawns

[24:01] in a major terrorist operation here in

[24:03] the Middle East and in Europe. The

[24:05] German government has announced that

[24:06] demands from the Middle East are the

[24:08] same as those by the Bowder Minehof gang

[24:11] which somewhere in Europe has held a

[24:13] German industrialist Hans Martin Schlier

[24:15] hostage for more than 5 weeks. The link

[24:18] was obvious when the picture of the

[24:20] industrialist released today showed a

[24:22] sign around his neck with the name of

[24:24] the Middle East terrorist group written

[24:26] on it. Both groups demand the release of

[24:29] terrorists held in German prisons. added

[24:32] to the list today. Two Palestinians held

[24:34] in Turkey. If they're not all free by

[24:37] Sunday morning, say the terrorist

[24:38] groups, Schlier the industrialist will

[24:41] die, and so too will the people on board

[24:43] this plane stranded if it stays there in

[24:46] Dubai. The pressure on the German

[24:49] government already great is mounting.

[24:51] Peter Jennings, ABC News.

[24:55] In Switzerland, 5-year-old Ratziella

[24:57] Ortiz, the Bolivian Tiner, kidnapped

[24:59] last week, is safely back in her

[25:01] family's castle. The girl's father paid

[25:04] $2 million for her release. In Belgrade,

[25:07] the Russians defended their human rights

[25:09] record today, and their delegates to the

[25:11] European Security Conference accused

[25:13] Western countries of tolerating attacks

[25:15] on Soviet citizens abroad. The Russians

[25:18] today deported dissident leader

[25:20] Valentine Turchin. He headed the Soviet

[25:23] branch of Amnesty International, the

[25:25] group which won this year's Nobel Peace

[25:27] Prize. Churchin has accepted a teaching

[25:29] job at New York's Columbia University.

[25:45] Presenting the 1978 Fiats,

[25:50] the 128

[25:53] the 131,

[25:56] the 124 Spider,

[25:59] and the X19.

[26:02] Rather than spend a lot of time showing

[26:04] you the new Fiats,

[26:06] we thought we'd give you a taste of what

[26:08] it's like to drive one.

[26:10] The 78s, available now at your Fiat

[26:12] dealer.

[26:16] >> This can't be coffee cuz it tastes so

[26:18] smooth. They took the bitter taste out.

[26:22] >> This can't be coffee cuz it tastes so

[26:24] smooth. How they take the bitter taste

[26:27] out.

[26:27] >> New Melrose starts with three kinds of

[26:29] rich robust coffees, then blends in

[26:31] roasted grain to take away the bitter

[26:33] edge.

[26:34] >> This can't be coffee cuz it tastes so

[26:36] smooth.

[26:36] >> Enjoy a delicious full flavored coffee

[26:39] taste with Miller roast coffee and grain

[26:40] beverage.

[26:41] >> They took the bitter taste out.

[26:45] The main point that President Carter

[26:47] sought President Torijo's help on today

[26:49] is the US says the treaties on the canal

[26:52] give us the right to move in to defend

[26:54] the canal if it's attacked. A

[26:56] Panameanian leader had said the treaties

[26:58] give us no right to intervene. General

[27:00] Tojo said after the meeting that

[27:02] ambiguity has now been cleared up, but

[27:05] on inspection the point seems

[27:07] immaterial. Anyhow, the basic fact about

[27:10] the canal is it is militarily

[27:12] indefensible. If it could be defended,

[27:15] the 14 military bases the treaties allow

[27:18] us to keep there permanently could do

[27:19] it. But they can't. In the missile age,

[27:22] a distant invisible submarine could

[27:25] knock out the canal with a long range

[27:27] rocket. With less sophistication, a

[27:30] couple of gorillas could creep out of

[27:31] the 50 mi of dense jungle at night and

[27:34] disable the locks with a couple of hand

[27:36] grenades at will. General Brown, the

[27:39] head of our joint chiefs, says that a US

[27:41] army of 100,000 men, could not stop that

[27:45] from happening. The only hope of defense

[27:47] of the canal lies where it lay in two

[27:50] world wars. Having a friendly Panama and

[27:53] having the support of all Latin America,

[27:56] whose ships use the canal far more than

[27:58] we do and want it kept open. Ratifying

[28:00] the treaties would give us a chance of

[28:02] having those essential conditions for a

[28:05] safe canal. On the other hand, failure

[28:08] to ratify the treaties negotiated

[28:10] incidentally by four presidents, two

[28:12] Democrats and two Republicans, would

[28:14] inflame hatreds almost certain to make

[28:16] the canal unusable in a crisis. Failure

[28:19] to ratify would in fact be a pro-Russian

[28:22] act, not a pro-american one.

[28:25] Barbara,

[28:27] >> thank you, Howard. That's tonight's

[28:28] news. Good evening.

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