World News Tonight (ABC) - 1983-12-26

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1983-12-26
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[0:02] Monday, December 26th. [music] More

[0:04] concern is on droof is absent from

[0:06] another major meeting in Moscow. The

[0:07] deep freeze ice is over even [music] the

[0:09] deep south. And another Beirut ceasefire

[0:12] breaks down.

[0:12] >> From ABC, [music] this is World News

[0:15] Tonight with Peter Jennings sitting in

[0:18] this evening and reporting [music] from

[0:19] Washington. Here is Max Robinson. Good

[0:22] evening. It would be hard to conceive of

[0:24] the president of the United States

[0:26] disappearing from public view for four

[0:28] months and let's say inexplicably

[0:30] failing to show up for the State of the

[0:31] Union speech. Well, that's the situation

[0:33] today in the Soviet Union. Soviet leader

[0:35] Yuri Andropov failed once again today to

[0:38] make an expected appearance, this time

[0:40] at a major communist party gathering. We

[0:42] have two reports beginning with Bob

[0:43] Zelnik in Moscow.

[0:45] >> Once again, the Soviet media had to

[0:47] explain on Dropov's unexpected absence

[0:50] from an important event. The general

[0:52] secretary of the Soviet Communist

[0:54] Party's central committee, Yuran Davo,

[0:57] could not attend the meeting for

[0:59] temporary reasons. So sent in the text

[1:01] of what he had intended to say.

[1:04] >> Twice each year, the entire 300 plus

[1:06] membership of the Communist Party's

[1:08] ruling central committee gathers at the

[1:10] Kremlin to make policy. Last seen more

[1:13] than four months ago and rumored to be

[1:15] desperately ill with kidney problems,

[1:18] Androp was expected to make a special

[1:20] effort to attend today's meeting. Until

[1:22] recent days, unofficial Soviet sources

[1:25] had encouraged this view, suggesting

[1:27] further that An