CBS Evening News - 1979-10-02
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[0:00] this is the Western edition of the CBS
[0:03] Evening News with Walter kronite in New
[0:05] York and Terry drinkwater in Los Angeles
[0:08] good evening the faltering salt 2 treaty
[0:11] has received an indirect endorsement
[0:13] from Pope John Paul II and an allout
[0:16] Salvage effort from The Carter
[0:18] Administration the pope and the United
[0:20] Nations address applauded the decisions
[0:22] and agreements aimed at reducing the
[0:24] arms race but he deplored what he called
[0:27] the desire to be ready for war at being
[0:30] ready means being able to start it we'll
[0:33] have more on the Pope's un address in
[0:35] his day in New York later in the
[0:36] broadcast in a nationwide address last
[0:38] night President Carter made that new
[0:40] Arms Treaty with Moscow a rallying point
[0:43] playing down the dispute over those
[0:45] 3,000 Soviet troops in Cuba Mr Carter
[0:48] said that that military presence is not
[0:51] the greatest danger to American Security
[0:54] the greatest danger to all the nations
[0:56] of the world including the United States
[0:58] and the Soviet Union is the breakdown of
[1:01] a common effort to preserve the peace
[1:03] and the ultimate threat of a nuclear war
[1:07] Mr Carter announced steps the United
[1:09] States would take to counter the Soviet
[1:11] troops they include increased
[1:13] surveillance of Cuba establishment of a
[1:15] permanent Caribbean Joint Task Force
[1:17] Headquarters at Key West and expanded in
[1:20] regular military Maneuvers in the
[1:21] Caribbean area Mr Carter also said he
[1:24] had received Soviet assurances that
[1:26] those troops will not be of a combat
[1:28] nature and that they will will not
[1:30] threaten Any Nation but his long awaited
[1:33] reply t