NBC Nightly News - 1977-10-12

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[0:05] This is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:08] Chancellor in New York and David

[0:11] Brinkley in Washington.

[0:15] Good evening. Before the Supreme Court

[0:17] today, arguments in the Alan Baky case,

[0:20] one of the most difficult the court has

[0:22] had in years. The question being, if a

[0:25] medical school reserves a set number of

[0:27] places for minorities, is that reverse

[0:30] discrimination against whites? If so, is

[0:34] it constitutional? The decision may be

[0:36] weeks or months in coming. Here's Carl

[0:38] Stern.

[0:41] This was not your ordinary midnight at

[0:43] the Supreme Court. There were people

[0:45] camped out all over the front steps of

[0:47] the court. There were demonstrators

[0:49] marching in the midnight darkness.

[0:53] By daybreak, there were hundreds of

[0:54] people wanting to hear what may be the

[0:56] most important civil rights case since

[0:58] segregation was outlawed in the 1950s.

[1:02] Reynold Culvin, the attorney for Alan

[1:04] Baky, argued that universities have

[1:06] become quota happy. He said that Baky

[1:08] had been the victim of a racial quota

[1:10] that limited the number of whites

[1:12] admitted to the California Medical

[1:14] School at Davis.

[1:16] But former Watergate prosecutor Archabal

[1:18] Cox defending the university denied that

[1:21] whites were being stigmatized by the

[1:23] system and therefore he said it was not

[1:24] a quota without preferential admissions.

[1:27] He said minority enrollments would slow

[1:29] to a trickle. Chief Justice Burgerer

[1:32] seemed skeptical asking whether other

[1:34] systems couldn't work like an extra year

[1:36] of preparatory education for minority

[1:38] students. Justice Powell seemed to be

[1:40] looking for a middle ground with race to

[1:43] be considered as only one of many

[1:45] factors for admission.

[1:48] Supporters of minority programs

[1:49] applauded as Archabal Cox left the

[1:52] court. Cox said the lower court decision

[1:54] in favor of Baky threatens all

[1:57] affirmative action.

[1:59] >> Well, I think it's very hard to see how

[2:02] an affirmance of the California court uh

[2:05] could fail to impair

[2:09] uh and certainly cut way back, perhaps

[2:12] destroy affirmative action programs of

[2:14] all kinds. But Baky's lawyer said Cox

[2:18] was overstating the matter. We have

[2:20] never taken the position that this is a

[2:22] landmark case or the most important case

[2:24] of any kind. We believe that this is a

[2:27] case where an individual's rights have

[2:29] been deprived. We think that the United

[2:31] States Supreme Court can affirm the

[2:33] California decision, protect Mr. Baky's

[2:36] rights and that it can do so without

[2:39] making tremendous changes in the

[2:41] progress that's been made in the

[2:42] country.

[2:43] >> Thank you very much.

[2:44] >> Thank you.

[2:44] >> Thank you.

[2:45] >> The justices will take a preliminary

[2:47] vote later this week. The decision,

[2:49] which must be announced before the end

[2:51] of June, may depend more on discussions

[2:54] between the justices themselves than on

[2:57] anything that was argued today. Carl

[2:59] Stern, NBC News. at the Supreme Court.

[3:03] >> The question is, and nobody's sure, will

[3:05] the Baky case make it to that Hall of

[3:08] Fame of great cases which changed the

[3:10] interpretation of the Constitution?

[3:12] Cases like Dread Scott or Marberry

[3:14] versus Madison or Brown versus Board of

[3:16] Education which changed the face of

[3:18] integration in this country. And what

[3:20] kind of person is Baky? Tom Pettit has

[3:22] been looking into that.

[3:26] In the celebrated case against Alan

[3:28] Baky, the Supreme Court of the United

[3:30] States saw plenty of lawyers today, but

[3:33] not Alan Baky. Alan Baky is a very

[3:36] private citizen. About the time court

[3:38] opened in Washington, he was on his way

[3:41] to work from his home across the

[3:42] continent in California. Baky avoids

[3:45] publicity with the same intensity and

[3:47] single-mindedness he pursues medical

[3:49] school. This is Alan Paul Baky, 37 years

[3:53] old, an engineer for NASA.

[3:56] Baky has a master's degree in

[3:58] engineering from Stanford and full

[4:00] premed education. From 1963 to '67, he

[4:04] was an officer in the Marine Corps, 7

[4:06] months in Vietnam. He was in the service

[4:09] to pay off his ROC debts at the

[4:11] University of Minnesota, where he was

[4:13] graduated with a degree in mechanical

[4:15] engineering in 1962.

[4:18] He was born in Minneapolis in 1940, of

[4:20] Norwegian ancestry.

[4:23] Baky graduated with honors from high

[4:25] school in Florida, where his family

[4:27] moved in 1948. At his mother's modest

[4:30] home in Miami today, she did not want to

[4:32] be photographed. Like mother, like son.

[4:35] His father had been a mailman and died

[4:37] two years ago sometime after a divorce

[4:39] from Mrs. Orin Baky.

[4:42] Carl Gables High School. Allan was in

[4:44] the class of 1958.

[4:46] Students who were not alive then may get

[4:48] class assignments to study the case of

[4:50] alumnist Alan Baky.

[4:52] Baky's yearbook shows him at age 18, 3.6

[4:56] grade point, National Honor Society

[4:58] Music Club. The Baky boy played trumpet

[5:01] in a band, was regarded as a good

[5:03] student in sciences and in German. Baky

[5:06] got B+ grades everywhere he went. But he

[5:10] was rejected by about a dozen medical

[5:12] schools. A dozen, not just Davis. He

[5:16] spoke of suing several schools for

[5:18] reverse discrimination. And for two of

[5:20] them, he could have cited age

[5:22] discrimination since that's the reason

[5:24] they gave for keeping Alan Baky out. Tom

[5:28] Pettit, NBC News, Washington.

[5:31] >> Public interest in the case was high.

[5:32] People waited all night for the few

[5:34] seats available inside the court. Some

[5:36] of them rotated every few minutes. Law

[5:39] students saw it as an historic case, and

[5:41] some drove all night hoping to hear it.

[5:44] And it appeared every one of them

[5:45] waiting outside had a firm solid opinion

[5:48] on how the case should be decided.

[5:54] >> I really enjoy my family because I don't

[5:57] neglect myself.

[5:58] >> We try to enjoy life. I've never been

[6:01] happier. To be good at anything, you got

[6:04] to be good to yourself. So I eat right,

[6:07] exercise, and to make sure I get enough

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[6:14] ordinary supplement and some very

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[6:28] aid in America? Well, I guess it works

[6:31] for a lot of other people every bit as

[6:32] well as it works for me. Those nights

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[6:37] Somix helps me relax and feel drowsy. I

[6:40] get the sleep I need and next morning I

[6:43] wake up refreshed.

[6:44] >> Sonex, America's bestselling sleeping

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[6:48] falling asleep, let Sonex work for you.

[6:51] >> It sure works for me.

[7:02] >> Hey, what's for dinner?

[7:03] >> I don't know, but I hope it's right.

[7:05] >> Everyone else gets new Job's house plant

[7:07] spikes.

[7:08] >> Yeah, lucky them. You know, Job's is

[7:09] different. It's a solid spike of

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[7:16] little. Always just right. Here she

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[7:21] >> New Job's house plant spikes. Just push

[7:23] them in and elements in the soil

[7:24] dissolve them slowly. Jobes makes house

[7:26] plant feeding easier.

[7:28] >> I even like it better than guacamole.

[7:32] It seems today that President Carter is

[7:34] planning a sales campaign for some of

[7:36] his programs which are in trouble. He

[7:38] scheduled a press conference for

[7:40] tomorrow morning, 10:30 Eastern time to

[7:42] be covered live by NBC News. He has

[7:45] invited the leader of Panama, General

[7:47] Omar Torios, to the White House this

[7:50] Friday for another talk about the Panama

[7:52] Canal. And he said today he intends to

[7:54] go back to the country to argue for his

[7:56] energy saving plan which was torn to

[7:59] pieces in the Senate. Bob Jameson has

[8:01] more on that.

[8:04] >> The president, who was saying goodbye to

[8:05] the visiting Nigerian leader today, has

[8:08] decided to focus most of the

[8:09] administration's time and effort in the

[8:11] next few weeks to develop congressional

[8:13] and public support for a stronger energy

[8:15] package. As we approach the end of the

[8:17] con of the congressional session, I

[8:19] think it's important for me again to go

[8:22] back to the country and and reaffirm the

[8:24] reasons which have not changed for the

[8:28] comprehensive energy policy to be

[8:29] adopted.

[8:30] >> Are you now going over the heads of

[8:31] Congress?

[8:32] >> No, I think I'll be working with most of

[8:34] the members of Congress.

[8:36] >> The administration is counting on a

[8:38] favorable compromise from the House

[8:39] Senate Conference Committee on Energy.

[8:42] But to ensure that, President Carter is

[8:44] expected to make a fireside chat soon

[8:46] and who spent much of his western trip

[8:48] next week talking about the need for a

[8:49] strong energy plan. And press secretary

[8:52] Jodie Powell said that the next few

[8:54] weeks will show whether Congress can

[8:56] pass those things which aren't fun or

[8:58] easy. Bob Jameson, NBC News, at the

[9:00] White House. Some news today on another

[9:03] possible source of energy. An oil

[9:05] company owned by Japan and the Soviet

[9:08] Union says it has struck oil near the

[9:10] Russian island of Sakalen, which is

[9:12] north of Japan. They're not sure, but

[9:14] they think the find has a possibility of

[9:17] becoming the largest oil field in Asia.

[9:20] David,

[9:22] the president signed a bill to spend

[9:24] about $15 billion to help old and

[9:27] decaying American cities and their poor

[9:29] and unemployed residents. It calls for

[9:32] new housing and rent subsidies for those

[9:35] who need them. But there are already

[9:37] disputes among the cities on how the

[9:39] money is to be divided up. Here are two

[9:41] reports.

[9:44] Under the new housing bill, New York

[9:46] City will get about $225 million in

[9:49] fiscal 1978. That's 145 million more

[9:52] than it would have received without the

[9:54] new legislation. A formula of need

[9:56] ensures that much of that new money will

[9:58] be spent here in the South Bronx.

[10:00] President Carter made a special visit

[10:02] here last week. He viewed the

[10:03] devastation and promised more help to

[10:05] some of the people who are trying to

[10:06] turn it around.

[10:09] Rammon Roua, who told the president they

[10:11] need more money, says $225 million is

[10:14] still not enough and offered this

[10:16] footnote. My concern and advice to

[10:18] President Carter that we have a direct

[10:20] people's participation in the

[10:22] formulation of the urban policy program

[10:24] so that the monies come directly to

[10:27] local, you know, community groups and

[10:29] not to the private contractors and

[10:31] developers.

[10:33] >> Andrew says the actual amount of money

[10:35] allocated here is not as significant as

[10:38] the increased commitment suggested by

[10:40] the new legislation. Gerald Harrington,

[10:42] NBC News, New York. The new legislation

[10:46] suggests a decreased commitment here in

[10:48] the nation's capital. Washington DC is

[10:50] one of several big cities which faces a

[10:53] sharp cut back in federal housing money.

[10:57] Almost 20% of the people here live in

[10:59] substandard overcrowded yet overpriced

[11:02] housing units. But instead of the $40

[11:05] million Washington got last year, it

[11:07] will only get $32 million next year.

[11:11] City officials fear the housing

[11:12] situation may get worse.

[11:16] >> There is certainly that possibility uh

[11:18] that the capacity of the district to

[11:21] respond to housing, especially for those

[11:23] in the lower and moderate income area,

[11:25] will be considerably affected by not

[11:27] having as much money to operate with.

[11:30] >> The new housing bill provides some

[11:32] additional money to cities which can

[11:34] demonstrate they really need it.

[11:35] Officials here plan to prove they do.

[11:38] Carol Simpson, NBC News, Washington.

[11:43] >> NBC News correspondent Irving Aravine

[11:45] learns that the Carter tax reform

[11:47] program, already delayed, will be

[11:49] delayed further because there's a

[11:52] disagreement over where the cuts should

[11:54] be made. The Treasury wanted about a

[11:56] third of the cuts to go to corporations

[11:59] to create new investment and new jobs.

[12:02] But President Carter wanted less for

[12:04] corporations and more for lowerincome

[12:07] people to avoid further criticism from

[12:09] black leaders and the unions. So the

[12:12] Treasury has been ordered to work the

[12:14] tax reform plan over again, meaning more

[12:16] delay. John, there was a rare solar

[12:20] eclipse today as the moon passed in

[12:23] front of the sun. For Americans, it was

[12:25] a partial eclipse seen from the east

[12:27] coast to the west in Hawaii and Alaska.

[12:29] This is what it looked like to eclipse

[12:31] watchers at Griffith Observatory in Los

[12:33] Angeles. In ancient times, eclipses were

[12:36] regarded as dreadful events causing

[12:38] treason, murder, and disaster. Today, as

[12:42] far as we can tell, there was none of

[12:43] that. David,

[12:46] the federal crop report out today says

[12:48] we have the largest corn harvest in the

[12:50] history of the United States, 6.3

[12:53] billion bushels. Since it is the basic

[12:56] animal feed, this should help keep down

[12:58] food prices in the coming year. Soybeans

[13:01] also a record. The only trouble is there

[13:04] is so much there's no room to store it

[13:06] all. Mike Jackson in Nebraska.

[13:11] They were out at sunrise this morning in

[13:13] Silver Creek, Nebraska, hoping to get

[13:15] their grain into the elevator before it

[13:17] was filled.

[13:18] >> Just drives you crazy.

[13:21] You wake up in the night wondering what

[13:23] the sandal you go to do.

[13:26] >> The problem is that this year's crop is

[13:28] one of the biggest ever like last year's

[13:30] crop. Elevator manager Vance Gordon and

[13:33] there just no ways to go with the grain.

[13:35] The terminals were all were all full

[13:36] before harvest started mostly. So they

[13:39] just dead end. Few of these farmers plan

[13:43] to sell their grain yet because prices

[13:45] just aren't good enough. Instead, what

[13:47] they plan to do is borrow money from the

[13:49] government using their grain as

[13:50] collateral. Right now, the way prices

[13:53] are, they can get more money borrowing

[13:54] than they can selling.

[13:58] So, farmers like Maurice Watts will

[14:00] store their grain, waiting for the price

[14:02] to go up.

[14:04] >> That uh that storing it and keep a hold

[14:08] in it and keep a hold in it. that uh

[14:12] that's not going to make uh anybody

[14:15] anything down the road unless we've got

[14:16] an outlet to get rid of it further on.

[14:20] Grain is already being stored on the

[14:22] ground in some places and many farmers

[14:24] say more will end up there unless new

[14:26] storage can be built soon or prices go

[14:28] up and farmers start selling. Mike

[14:31] Jackson, NBC News, Stumsburg, Nebraska.

[14:35] There was optimism today in Washington

[14:37] about a Middle East peace conference and

[14:39] also a new deal with the Russians on

[14:41] nuclear weapons. On the Middle East, the

[14:43] president said that every week now

[14:44] brings some sign of progress toward a

[14:46] Geneva conference. But on the neutron

[14:49] bomb, the European allies decided today

[14:51] that now is not the time for

[14:53] declarations of support for a deployment

[14:56] of this weapon in Western Europe. At a

[14:58] NATO meeting in Italy, the word from

[15:00] NATO defense ministers was not yet.

[15:03] David

[15:04] A second look at Hartford, Connecticut,

[15:06] where the city agreed to pay a sculptor

[15:08] $87,000 to beautify a small city park.

[15:13] Well, he brought in 16 big boulders and

[15:15] set them on the grass and said yes, that

[15:17] was art, and the city had to pay him.

[15:20] There was an uproar. The mayor was

[15:21] furious, feeling he'd been had. Well,

[15:24] today the city's lawyers declined to say

[15:26] if they thought it was art, but they

[15:27] said the city had made a deal, and so

[15:29] they had to pay the money, like it or

[15:31] not.

[15:36] What do you see when you look at a tree?

[15:38] You might see a source of jobs or needed

[15:41] wood and paper products, a precious

[15:43] renewable resource, or a splendid

[15:45] example of nature's artistry. We see our

[15:48] life's blood. Much of what we do depends

[15:51] on trees. So, we strive to manage ours

[15:54] in a way that reconciles your changing

[15:56] views, so they'll provide jobs,

[15:58] products, profits, and splendor forever.

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[17:12] >> Our segment three this evening is titled

[17:14] Amtrak, not a model railroad. Excuse the

[17:18] pun. Amtrak is big, expensive, not as

[17:21] successful a railroad as its sponsors

[17:23] had hoped, and it looks as though it

[17:24] will continue to need help from the

[17:26] taxpayers. At the same time, for a lot

[17:29] of people, it's important. Robert Hager

[17:31] reports.

[17:35] >> See the country travel and track easy

[17:41] come and easy go.

[17:44] >> What's been coming and going easily at

[17:46] Amtrak is the money. $2 billion of it

[17:49] for a service that was supposed to make

[17:51] money.

[17:52] May 1971, ceremonies inaugurate Amtrak

[17:56] and John Vulpi, then Secretary of

[17:58] Transportation, was asked about costs.

[18:01] >> Do you expect to save any money with

[18:02] this operation?

[18:04] >> The fact is that unless we save some

[18:07] money, this corporation won't last very

[18:09] long. And if we are to stay in business

[18:12] more than a year or two, we've got to

[18:14] operate it on a basis that it is going

[18:16] to at least uh start to reach a break

[18:19] even point within approximately 2 or 2

[18:22] and 1/2 years. But Amtrak, now in its

[18:25] seventh year, has done nothing but lose

[18:26] money. In 1971, it lost $31 million. In

[18:31] 1972, it lost $148 million. Then losses

[18:35] of 172 million, 149 million, 281

[18:40] million, 350 million, and in the just

[18:43] completed fiscal year, it lost $482

[18:46] million. We asked John Vulpi, now

[18:49] retired, what happened.

[18:51] >> Uh what happened is that uh as a matter

[18:54] of fact, the 1275 trains and engines we

[18:57] took over were very much more

[18:58] dilapitated than we realized. And the

[19:01] fact that the Congress added uh some

[19:03] roots or insisted on continuing some

[19:05] routes that uh were real money losers uh

[19:08] did not allow us to get into a break

[19:11] even point.

[19:16] >> Amtrak has made trains more appealing

[19:18] with new equipment and ridership has

[19:21] increased some especially in the

[19:22] northeast where Amtrak's Metro Liner

[19:25] between Washington and New York has been

[19:26] very successful.

[19:28] But Amtrak has not made a significant

[19:31] change in traveling habits nationally.

[19:33] 11 times as many people still take

[19:35] airplanes. Six times as many people ride

[19:38] intercity buses.

[19:40] And most Amtrak trains are big money

[19:43] losers like the Fidian which pulls out

[19:46] of Chicago at 8:30 each morning bound

[19:48] for Miami 37 hours away.

[19:52] The people who ride the Fidian prefer it

[19:54] to other ways of traveling. I don't like

[19:57] to fly as a reason I don't take the

[19:59] plane and I see no point in dragging a

[20:02] heavy car this distance for one

[20:04] passenger.

[20:05] >> The scenery is just fantastic sometimes.

[20:07] I I wanted to get away from the highways

[20:09] and the cars which I this really gets

[20:11] you away.

[20:13] >> The problem is there aren't enough

[20:14] people like this. The day we rode the

[20:17] Fidian, there were only 48 passengers

[20:19] leaving Chicago and 172 empty seats.

[20:24] Bad tracks slow down the train and the

[20:27] costs are high. It costs money to run

[20:30] the dining car, to pay two waiters and

[20:33] two chefs. It costs money to run the

[20:35] snack car and pay the man behind the

[20:38] bar. It costs money to pay the train and

[20:41] the engineers who must be replaced 10

[20:43] times between Chicago and Miami because

[20:45] of union rules. Passengers pay $62 for a

[20:49] full trip ticket on the Fidian, but

[20:51] that's only half of what it actually

[20:53] costs Amtrak. Taxpayers make up the

[20:56] difference.

[20:57] Amtrak President Paul Rystra.

[21:00] >> Fidian loses a lot of money. How can you

[21:02] justify hanging on to a route like that?

[21:05] Well, the Fidian is our number one

[21:08] loser. I think that the train runs

[21:11] through the wrong cities. I think this

[21:14] is the best example of the necessity to

[21:17] restructure Amtrak.

[21:19] >> In a report issued just this week,

[21:21] Amtrak promises to restudy its entire

[21:23] system, and there are already plans to

[21:26] cut back some runs, mostly here in the

[21:28] Northeast Corridor, later this month.

[21:31] But so far, Amtrak has been reluctant to

[21:33] eliminate many of its big money losing

[21:35] runs in less populated areas because

[21:38] that would anger too many congressmen

[21:40] and senators from those places and

[21:42] jeopardize the yearly subsidies Congress

[21:44] has been voting Amtrak.

[21:47] Amtrak has also refused to consider the

[21:49] plan of former transportation secretary

[21:51] William Coleman. He wanted to reduce

[21:54] Amtrak to the few well populated

[21:56] corridors he felt needed passenger

[21:58] trains. Coleman says the idea that a

[22:00] bigger system could be run for profit

[22:02] was ridiculous from the start.

[22:05] >> Well, that wasn't true then. It's

[22:07] certainly not true today. And something

[22:10] that was supposed to be a railroad for

[22:11] profit now is a railroad that's draining

[22:14] from the general taxpayer about $900

[22:16] million per year.

[22:18] >> In spite of the losses, the outlook is

[22:19] that Amtrak will keep rolling and huge

[22:22] subsidies will keep coming. Easy come

[22:25] and easy go is how you'll get there when

[22:28] you go

[22:33] back.

[22:34] Robert Hager, NBC News, New York.

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[23:12] This is Roman meal

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[23:17] recipe for Roman meal is over 60 years

[23:19] old. It calls for the finest whole

[23:21] grains available milled in a special way

[23:24] to retain the nutrients as well as the

[23:26] natural whole grain flavor. When

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[23:30] exact amount, you get a good tasting

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[23:48] As a home economist, I'm often asked

[23:50] what to look for in a vacuum cleaner.

[23:52] Well, the important things are suction

[23:55] power, bag capacity, and an agitator.

[23:58] The cleaner I recommend, the Hoover

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[24:19] Briefly today in Washington, it was

[24:21] decided there will be an airbag in your

[24:24] future. Congress upheld an order

[24:26] requiring them in all new cars by 1984.

[24:31] In San Francisco, a woman walked into a

[24:33] bank and handed the teller a note

[24:35] reading, "In 30 seconds, your life will

[24:38] not be worth the paper it is written

[24:40] on." While the teller was puzzling over

[24:42] what that meant, the woman got $578

[24:46] and walked out.

[24:47] John, there's an ancient French saying,

[24:50] "Burgundy is for kings, champagne for

[24:53] duchesses, clarret for gentlemen." We

[24:55] tend to think of the French as great

[24:57] consumers of wine, but they have always

[24:59] been drinkers of water as well, and more

[25:01] and more these days of special kinds of

[25:04] water. John Palmer reports from Paris.

[25:08] >> This is not Baghdad or Damascus, but the

[25:11] richest neighborhood in Paris. Yet every

[25:13] day, hundreds of Parisians go to this

[25:15] public well to draw water. It's not that

[25:18] there's anything wrong with the regular

[25:20] water supply. It's just that more and

[25:22] more Frenchmen prefer their water pure

[25:24] with the taste unaffected by chlorine or

[25:27] other additives.

[25:29] The French are not only drinking more

[25:31] mineral water these days, they're

[25:33] inhaling it, making mud baths with it,

[25:36] and exporting it to the United States.

[25:39] This plant advertises that water from

[25:42] its well has quenched the thirsts,

[25:44] treated the ills, and lifted the spirits

[25:46] of people for over 85 generations.

[25:50] Recently, they began making handy

[25:52] six-packs for sale in the United States,

[25:55] part of a big campaign to convince

[25:57] Americans that French mineral water is

[25:59] no longer a rich man's drink, but a

[26:02] beverage for the masses.

[26:05] In Vichi, thousands of people show up

[26:07] every week to sample various types of

[26:09] mineral water, which are said to be good

[26:11] for people with gout, rheumatism, liver

[26:14] problems, respiratory ailments, and poor

[26:17] blood circulation.

[26:20] There's even a special mud pack made, of

[26:22] course, with mineral water, which is

[26:24] applied to the visitor's back and chest,

[26:27] and special massages, again using

[26:29] mineral water.

[26:32] And for those prepared to dawn a shower

[26:34] cap and a plastic sheet, there are water

[26:37] vapors to be inhaled.

[26:40] All of this may be a bit too exotic for

[26:42] the average American. So, for now,

[26:44] French exporters say they'll be content

[26:46] if Americans merely buy French water to

[26:48] drink. The rest, they say, will come

[26:51] later. John Palmer, NBC News, Paris.

[26:56] >> Well, we'll see about that. Good night

[26:58] from New York. And from Washington,

[27:01] thank you and good night for all of us

[27:03] at NBC News.

[27:08] >> When you go places, the show is a

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[28:26] Dan Hagerty as Grizzly Adams loses his

[28:28] memory and can't tell friend from enemy.

[28:31] >> Don't shoot. It's a bad

[28:33] >> Then the Oregon Trail.

[28:34] >> We're going to hang Mr. Spray.

[28:36] >> He's all busted up. He ain't got a

[28:37] chance. They need 54 Adams Oregon Trail

[28:41] on Big Hawaii tonight starting at 8 7

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