NBC Nightly News - 1983-09-05
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[0:02] [Music]
[0:04] This is NBC Nightly News reported by Tom
[0:06] Brokoff. Good evening. President Reagan
[0:10] goes on national television tonight to
[0:12] share with the country insider
[0:13] information on the shooting down of that
[0:15] Korean Airlines jumbo jet. His speech
[0:18] follows several developments on the
[0:19] tragedy which emerged today. Canada
[0:22] suspended landing privileges for the
[0:24] Soviet airline Aeroflot and it
[0:26] restricted the use of Gander
[0:27] Newfoundland as a refueling stop for the
[0:29] Soviets. In Moscow, there were many more
[0:32] Soviet versions of the shooting down of
[0:33] the Korean airliner, including one
[0:36] tonight on Soviet television. Generick
[0:38] Bovic told his Russian audience that the
[0:40] Soviet fighter pilot had no choice that
[0:43] the anti-aircraft defenses fulfilled
[0:44] their duty for the security of the
[0:46] motherland and tasked the official
[0:49] Soviet news agency today called US
[0:51] accusations deliberately provocative
[0:54] adding that they were designed to
[0:55] obstruct the arms limitation talks.
[0:59] Chris Wallace has spent this day talking
[1:00] to many of President Reagan's advisers,
[1:02] and he reports from the White House
[1:04] tonight that the president is expected
[1:05] to counter the Soviet versions with hard
[1:08] evidence.
[1:18] In his speech tonight, the president
[1:20] will play a tape of intercepted
[1:21] transmissions from Soviet fighter pilots
[1:24] and the moments before that Korean
[1:25] airliner went down. Reganate say the
[1:28] tape proves beyond a shadow of a doubt
[1:30] what happened. Administration officials
[1:32] say the tape proves the Soviet shot down
[1:34] the plane. One pilot saying he has fired
[1:37] a missile and tar