NBC Nightly News - 1977-05-20

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[0:02] This is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:04] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,

[0:07] Friday, May 20th, reported from the NBC

[0:10] News Center in New York. Good evening.

[0:13] David Brinkley is off this evening. The

[0:15] United States and the Soviet Union have

[0:17] made progress toward a new treaty to

[0:19] limit strategic nuclear weapons. Talks

[0:21] in Geneva between Secretary of State

[0:23] Vance and Foreign Minister Gro ended

[0:26] today and American officials said there

[0:28] are hopeful indications. Tomorrow there

[0:31] will be details. Today we have nothing

[0:33] specific except that serious

[0:35] negotiations have commenced and that

[0:37] there is reason for optimism. The new

[0:39] agreement, it is said, is a framework

[0:41] which contains agreements and

[0:43] disagreements from both sides. Richard

[0:45] Valyriani is in Geneva. Vance left his

[0:48] hotel almost an hour later than

[0:49] scheduled this afternoon after

[0:51] conferring with the White House about

[0:52] the latest Russian proposals.

[0:55] The secretary took the American response

[0:57] to those proposals to the Soviet embassy

[0:59] for his final meeting with Romeo.

[1:01] Romeo had presented the modified Soviet

[1:03] position at this morning's meeting after

[1:05] getting new instructions from the

[1:07] Kremlin. The Russians did not permit

[1:10] filming at the morning session which

[1:11] lasted an hour. They did all the

[1:14] talking.

[1:15] Neither side provided any clues to

[1:17] substance with GMO saying, "We are

[1:20] silent like fish." Afterward, Vance

[1:23] declined to say what had been achieved.

[1:26] >> Uh, we've finished our talks.

[1:30] We are going to issue a joint

[1:31] communicate tomorrow morning, which

[1:33] we'll be working on tonight, and I'm

[1:35] going to have a press conference

[1:36] tomorrow morning at 11:00.

[1:39] Uh so I think I'll really say no more

[1:42] than that until the press conference

[1:43] tomorrow except to say that the the

[1:44] talks have been very useful as far as

[1:46] we're concerned and I believe that view

[1:47] is shared by the Soviets as well.

[1:50] However, another American official later

[1:52] told NBC News all is okay suggesting

[1:56] that the two sides had reached at least

[1:58] some kind of an agreement about what to

[2:00] do next. Richard Valerani, NBC News in

[2:04] Geneva.

[2:06] Vice President Montdale and South

[2:07] African Prime Minister John Forester

[2:09] finished their talks today on a sour

[2:11] note. Montdale said there was

[2:13] fundamental and profound disagreement on

[2:16] questions of South African racial policy

[2:18] and said South Africa would not get

[2:20] American help if a racial conflict broke

[2:22] out. Forester defended his country's

[2:24] policy of separation of the races.

[2:27] Manddale flew from the Forester talks in

[2:29] Vienna to Bgrade but canled his

[2:31] engagements there because he's got a

[2:33] stomach ache. Also on the program this

[2:35] evening, that American general who was

[2:37] ordered home from Korea for a

[2:39] presidential balling out. Something on

[2:41] that story. Prices going up at a

[2:43] double-digit rate. Charles Lindberg and

[2:46] the great old sport of croquet as played

[2:48] on the green sward in Central Park.

[2:55] >> Remember remember

[2:57] >> remember what?

[2:59] >> I can't remember.

[2:59] >> Uh did you want your vitamins? to answer

[3:02] the wait they're in new cereal product

[3:04] 19.

[3:05] >> If you forget your vitamins, remember

[3:07] Kellogg's product 19. A 1 oz serving has

[3:09] 100% of the US recommended daily

[3:12] allowance of 10 vitamins and iron.

[3:14] >> Good. Now, can you remember this number

[3:17] that tastes good

[3:20] to

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[3:53] Major General John Singlob, third in

[3:56] command of our troops in South Korea,

[3:57] returned to the United States this

[3:59] evening. He had told the Washington Post

[4:01] the withdrawal of American troops from

[4:03] South Korea as planned by the

[4:04] administration would lead to war and

[4:06] that provoked President Carter into

[4:09] ordering Singab home at once. Yesterday,

[4:12] we were told that the president acted

[4:13] very quickly in ordering the recall of

[4:15] General Singlo picking up the phone just

[4:18] after reading what the president had

[4:20] said in the morning paper. Today, White

[4:22] House officials offered some long range

[4:24] foreign policy reasons for the

[4:26] president's action. Marilyn Burgerer

[4:28] talked to some White House officials

[4:29] today. Marilyn, what are they saying?

[4:31] >> Well, John, they're very upset.

[4:33] Obviously, the president was concerned

[4:35] about this breaking of the chain of

[4:36] command and publicly going against the

[4:38] president's policy. But they are also

[4:40] saying that what General Singlop said

[4:43] went absolutely contrary to what Korean

[4:45] President Kak Chong Hi has been saying

[4:47] about the strength of his own forces.

[4:50] And secondly, they feel that his remarks

[4:53] saying that it would weaken South Korea

[4:55] if the United States were to withdraw

[4:57] damn near constituted an invitation to

[5:00] the North Koreans to attack and to test

[5:02] the American commitment there.

[5:04] >> And that was a quote from a White House

[5:05] official.

[5:06] >> Yes.

[5:07] >> Marilyn, do you think that General

[5:08] Singlov has put the White House on the

[5:10] spot by emphasizing Mr. Carter's plan to

[5:13] pull out the ground troops? Well, I

[5:15] think they had certainly hoped that the

[5:16] negotiations, which are to start next

[5:18] week, could go forward in a less public

[5:20] manner. I mean, it was known they were

[5:21] going to begin, but I don't think they

[5:23] wanted that much of a spotlight on him.

[5:25] And an indication of how much they

[5:27] wanted to give a rationale for the

[5:29] president's action, was that they said

[5:31] that it could affect the Russians and

[5:33] they could begin to question who is in

[5:35] charge here, whether it's the military

[5:37] or the president. And secondly, that the

[5:39] Chinese may begin to get a little bit

[5:41] worried. The Chinese like American

[5:43] strength in Asia and there that if the

[5:45] Chinese felt that the Americans were

[5:47] getting weaker, they might try to cement

[5:49] relations with the Russians and that we

[5:51] don't want.

[5:52] >> Well, Marilyn, thank you for those

[5:53] interesting reasons from the White House

[5:54] today. Thank you, Marilyn Burgerer.

[5:58] The United States suffered 157,000

[6:01] casualties in the Korean War of 1950 to

[6:04] 1953. There are those who say the war

[6:07] started because the United States army

[6:09] in Korea was too weak, which is why we

[6:11] should be strong there now. There are

[6:13] those who say that it would be folly to

[6:15] allow American troops to be involved

[6:17] again in a war on the Asian mainland.

[6:19] Those are the two points of view. Jim

[6:21] Lori of our staff has been out with the

[6:23] troops. And here is what he has learned.

[6:28] >> These are men of the US Second Division,

[6:30] 15,000 strong, the bulk of US ground

[6:32] troops in South Korea. And whether you

[6:35] talk to military men, government

[6:37] officials, or even Korean opposition

[6:39] groups, nobody here wants to see them

[6:41] go. But President Carter argues the US

[6:44] simply cannot risk having ground troops

[6:46] involved again in an Asian war.

[6:52] American officials say the US is still

[6:54] committed to South Korea's defense. But

[6:57] now, this is what the US wants to rely

[6:59] on, air power.

[7:06] The Air Force will stay and may even be

[7:09] expanded.

[7:12] As it stands now, roughly 20,000

[7:14] Americans are stationed within 10 mi of

[7:16] the Korean DMZ. Most experts agree they

[7:20] act as a war deterrent to North Korea

[7:23] and a boost to South Korean morale. Take

[7:26] away that deterrent without a North

[7:28] Korean non-aggression pact, critics

[7:30] argue, and you're walking on a tight

[7:32] rope where one slip could lead to war.

[7:35] Korean dissident argue further that US

[7:38] troop presence should be offered as an

[7:40] incentive to President Park for adopting

[7:42] more democratic ways in the South. With

[7:45] objections here to US troop pullout

[7:48] strong, field commanders will make two

[7:50] principal arguments to visitors from

[7:52] Washington. one, delay withdrawal as

[7:55] long as possible, and two, provide an

[7:58] extensive new aid program to South Korea

[8:01] to offset the loss of US troops. Jim

[8:04] Luri, NBC News, with the second division

[8:07] in South Korea.

[8:10] Minim Bean has had a busy day in Israel

[8:12] today. He's the man who will be the next

[8:14] prime minister. And he was briefed on

[8:16] government policies. Said he is ready

[8:18] personally to lead Israeli peace

[8:20] negotiators and began picking members of

[8:23] a team he wants to send to the United

[8:25] States to explain his party's hardline

[8:27] stands. Vegan has pledged to increase

[8:30] Israeli settlements in the West Bank

[8:32] area of occupied Jordan. Here's American

[8:35] policy on that. Officials say there's

[8:37] been no change in the position asserted

[8:39] last year, which described Israeli

[8:41] settlements on the West Bank as being

[8:43] quote illegal. That's the American

[8:45] position today.

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[9:50] >> the cost of living went up 8/10en of a

[9:53] percent last month. According to the

[9:54] Labor Department, it was the fourth

[9:56] straight month of consumer price

[9:58] increases and those prices will be in

[10:00] double digits if this should continue

[10:02] for the rest of the year. The price of

[10:04] food alone went up 1.5%. The White House

[10:07] said that was clearly not good news. The

[10:09] price of energy climbed too and that

[10:11] made an important congressional

[10:12] committee nervous. Irving Lavine covered

[10:15] that story.

[10:17] matched by tax rebates, tax.

[10:19] >> The joint economic committee was

[10:21] examining the effect of the Carter

[10:22] energy program on the economy when it

[10:25] received the latest cost of living

[10:27] figures showing that gasoline prices

[10:30] rose 30% more in April than the month

[10:33] before. The figures worried the

[10:35] committee members.

[10:37] >> I'm concerned that the appraisals of the

[10:39] energy plan show a significant unwelcome

[10:41] effect on the inflation rate. And I've

[10:44] just been given a note that the CPI, the

[10:47] consumer price index this morning, uh,

[10:50] is up 8/10en of 1% in April to set a 9.9

[10:54] almost 10% annual rate for the last 3

[10:57] months, latest 3 months. Energy prices

[11:00] could account for roughly 1 and a half

[11:02] to two percentage points in the overall

[11:04] inflation rate in the next few years.

[11:06] One estimate from a panel of economists

[11:08] was that higher energy prices will hurt

[11:11] the poorest families most. But Treasury

[11:14] Secretary Blumenthal said the poor will

[11:17] be helped by an energy tax rebate.

[11:21] >> It should, if anything, benefit the

[11:24] lowest income groups and the welfare

[11:26] recipients and social security

[11:27] recipients.

[11:29] At today's hearing, administration

[11:31] officials claimed that the Carter Energy

[11:33] program will add only about 4/10en of 1%

[11:36] each year to the cost of living. But

[11:39] other experts estimated that the average

[11:41] family's cost of living will go up by

[11:43] more than 6% a year. So, everyone agreed

[11:47] that the energy program will make

[11:49] inflation worse. The only disagreement

[11:52] was how much worse. Irving R. Lavine,

[11:56] NBC News at the capital.

[11:59] >> The first battle of the Long Island clam

[12:02] beds was fought today and the clammers

[12:04] said to be a hard shell lot one. Two

[12:07] weeks ago, the state of New York under

[12:09] federal pressure shut down 2600 acres of

[12:12] clam beds off Long Island. The reason,

[12:14] pollution. Long Island supplies the

[12:16] country with half the clams it eats. The

[12:18] clammers weren't about to give up.

[12:20] Robert Hager covered the battle on land

[12:22] and sea.

[12:25] The clammers scoff at New York State's

[12:27] claim that the water might be polluted.

[12:30] This morning, they gathered at one of

[12:31] the beds that was supposed to be closed

[12:33] off Babylon, New York. They ate clams

[12:35] and said they were good. One of the

[12:37] clammers jumped in the water. Police and

[12:40] state conservation officers watched

[12:42] nervously from shore. The clammers

[12:45] taunted them with a little half-hearted

[12:47] clamming. That was enough. Two officers

[12:50] rushed out, but the officers were

[12:52] outnumbered and surrounded.

[12:55] The conservation man waved a stick to

[12:57] keep the clammers back.

[13:00] Now, more police to the rescue. So, the

[13:03] clammers decided to back off. The

[13:05] officers were allowed to make an orderly

[13:08] retreat. As more reinforcements arrived,

[13:11] a police helicopter. Only last winter,

[13:13] the clammers had grounded a helicopter,

[13:15] puncturing its pontoons with a clam

[13:17] rake. Three bigger police boats also

[13:20] arrived. The clammers beat on their own

[13:23] boats with sticks, then charged one of

[13:26] the police vessels, but the boat back

[13:28] away from a fight. All this time, the

[13:30] Clammer's lawyers had been ashore

[13:32] looking for a judge. They finally found

[13:35] one at a nearby state mental institution

[13:37] hearing petitions from inmates. The

[13:40] clamor's lawyers interrupted the

[13:41] proceedings, asking the judge for a

[13:43] hearing to reopen the clam beds,

[13:45] claiming the water really isn't

[13:47] polluted. The judge agreed to order the

[13:50] beds temporarily reopened until June 1st

[13:53] when he'll hear more testimony. Back on

[13:55] the waterfront, the clamors were now

[13:57] ashore in the midst of another

[13:59] confrontation with police and the lawyer

[14:01] arrived with the news.

[14:03] >> The bay is open as of now.

[14:05] >> The bay is open.

[14:09] >> So, round one is a victory for the

[14:12] clammers. Round two comes up June 1st

[14:15] when the case goes back to court. Robert

[14:17] Hager, NBC News, Babylon, New York.

[14:21] As expected, Japan agreed officially

[14:23] today to export no more than 1,750,000

[14:27] color television sets to the United

[14:29] States every year for the next 3 years.

[14:32] Last year alone, the figure was 40%

[14:34] higher than that. The administration

[14:36] also says the agreement won't raise the

[14:38] price of Japanese television sets.

[14:41] General Lewis P. Hershey is dead. He

[14:43] sent 14 and a half million young

[14:45] Americans into three wars as the

[14:47] director of selective service. He died

[14:49] in his sleep today in Indiana. He was

[14:52] 83.

[14:54] The date is March the 17th, 1942. This

[14:57] is the third draft drawing of World War

[14:59] II. Hershey would also see men into the

[15:02] Korean War and into Vietnam. On this

[15:05] occasion, the number was drawn by

[15:06] Secretary of War Henry Stimson. And as

[15:08] was customary on these occasions, when

[15:11] the fate of millions of Americans was

[15:12] being decided, the number was read aloud

[15:14] by General Hershey.

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[16:22] >> Our special this evening is the

[16:23] celebration of an anniversary. 50 years

[16:26] ago today, Charles Lindberg flew the

[16:28] Atlantic. the first person to do it

[16:29] alone. His widow Anne Marorrow Lindberg

[16:32] said today, "Some aim greater than

[16:34] survival sent him on his flight to

[16:36] Paris." Lindberg once wrote, "The goal

[16:39] of man is man himself." She said today

[16:42] that meant the character of individual

[16:44] man, his courage, his integrity, his

[16:47] creativity, his compassion, his

[16:49] reverence for life of all kinds. That's

[16:51] a pretty good description of Charles

[16:53] Lindberg. Eric Burns reports.

[16:58] >> Here is Charles Lindberg as an old man

[17:00] talking about his flight from New York

[17:02] to Paris as a young man. Here, all

[17:06] around me is the Atlantic.

[17:09] A minute ago, I was a creature of the

[17:11] land, thinking of the ocean ahead.

[17:15] Now, I'm a creature of the ocean,

[17:18] sensing the exhilarating coolness of the

[17:20] water.

[17:23] When he was a boy, Charles Lindberg

[17:26] spent his summers in this house in

[17:27] Little Falls, Minnesota. He would lie on

[17:30] the grass and look up at the sky and

[17:32] dream, he said, of having wings like a

[17:35] hawk.

[17:38] When he was 20, he became a stunt pilot.

[17:40] After that, an air male pilot. But he

[17:43] had a lot of crashes in those days. He

[17:45] is believed to be the first person to

[17:47] have survived a crash between two planes

[17:49] in the air. and he is certainly the

[17:52] first person to have crashed into the

[17:53] hardware store in Campwood, Texas while

[17:56] trying to take off from the main street.

[17:59] He was not discouraged by these,

[18:01] however, and he decided to fly to Paris.

[18:07] Already six men had been killed and

[18:09] three injured trying to fly the

[18:10] Atlantic.

[18:12] But at 8 minutes before 8 on the morning

[18:15] of May 20th, 1927,

[18:17] Charles Lindberg took off from New York.

[18:20] He was alone, but millions of people

[18:23] were thinking about him.

[18:28] This was the scene in Paris 33 and 1/2

[18:30] hours later. Thousands of people broke

[18:33] through the fences at Lorge airport and

[18:36] ran onto the field and pushed against

[18:38] his plane and broke it, too.

[18:42] The next day, the New York Times devoted

[18:44] most of its first six pages to this

[18:46] 25-year-old man who had become literally

[18:49] an overnight hero.

[18:52] When he returned to New York, more than

[18:54] 4 million people came out to see him and

[18:57] idolize him and throw 1,800 tons of

[18:59] confetti at him.

[19:02] He became such a celebrity that many

[19:05] times when he took his clothes to the

[19:06] laundry, people who worked at the

[19:08] laundry would steal them. souvenirs.

[19:13] Charles Lindberg did more for commercial

[19:15] aviation than any man who ever lived.

[19:17] The year before his flight to Paris,

[19:19] commercial airlines in the United States

[19:21] carried only 1,500 passengers.

[19:24] But the year after, they carried 53,000.

[19:29] And the year after, Lindberg's plane

[19:31] went to the Smithsonian Institution in

[19:33] Washington. He would visit it from time

[19:36] to time over the years. One time he got

[19:39] a ladder from a security guard and

[19:41] climbed up into the cockpit, sat there

[19:44] alone again for almost an hour. That was

[19:48] in 1959.

[19:51] Charles Lindberg died in this house on

[19:53] the Hawaiian island of Maui in the

[19:55] summer of 1974.

[20:00] Last week in Chicago, 700 people paid

[20:03] $125 a piece for a dinner to honor

[20:05] Lindberg. The money will be used for

[20:08] scholarships. So will the money from

[20:10] other dinners in other cities.

[20:12] But Gurnie was a friend of Lindbergs, a

[20:15] fellow pilot for 55 years. He was an

[20:19] idealist

[20:20] as many of us were and thoroughly

[20:22] devoted to the the idea of the dream of

[20:25] flight and thoroughly convinced the

[20:28] flight plane could be safe that danger

[20:31] disappeared when knowledge was gained

[20:34] when the experiencing knowledge took its

[20:36] place.

[20:38] >> In 1969, men landed on the moon.

[20:42] Terrible view. I got something.

[20:46] >> Hey, time for some flight out here.

[20:48] >> We Americans never really knew whom to

[20:51] congratulate for this, the astronauts or

[20:53] the technicians or the computers.

[20:57] But Charles Lindberg flew to Paris

[20:59] alone. And he helped to design his plane

[21:02] and build his plane and even raise the

[21:04] money for his plane.

[21:07] We knew whom to congratulate and so we

[21:10] did.

[21:13] And 50 years later, we still do.

[21:18] Eric Burns, NBC News.

[21:24] 1 oz of total has 100% of the

[21:27] recommended daily allowance of all these

[21:29] important vitamins and iron.

[21:31] >> Okay, I'll pour this leading natural

[21:32] cereal. Stop me when you think the

[21:34] vitamin value equals total.

[21:36] >> Stop.

[21:36] >> Not yet.

[21:40] >> That's it. Nope.

[21:42] >> Is that right?

[21:43] >> It takes at least 16 ounces of any

[21:45] leading natural cereal to equal the

[21:47] vitamins in 1 oz of fortified total.

[21:49] >> That's a big difference.

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[22:53] Billy Carter slept at his brother's

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[23:30] And finally on a Friday evening, sport

[23:33] croquet to be exact. The game played on

[23:35] manicured lawns by manicured people and

[23:38] occasionally in Central Park in New York

[23:40] City. Richard Hunt reports.

[23:45] >> In 194 croquet was an Olympic sport, but

[23:48] it was more popular as a social game

[23:50] played on the broad lawns of big estates

[23:53] by whatever rules pleased the master of

[23:55] the house.

[23:56] Now the US Croquet Association is trying

[23:59] to revive the game as a competitive

[24:01] sport with a revised set of rules.

[24:05] The championship matches in New York

[24:06] drew top players from as far away as

[24:09] Arizona and Bermuda.

[24:12] >> Under the complicated new rules, a

[24:14] scorer keeps track of the position of

[24:16] every ball. The game calls for strategy

[24:19] and a killer instinct.

[24:23] >> So before you even strike the ball, you

[24:26] have to see what the other players are

[24:29] doing in the positions. It's like chess

[24:30] on grass. And it uh has a tendency to

[24:33] bring out the very worst in some people

[24:35] and some of the best in some people.

[24:38] >> Oh, we hate each other, but we can't

[24:40] hate each other too much because the guy

[24:42] we're against might be your partner in

[24:44] the next game.

[24:47] >> It looks relaxed and casual on a

[24:49] manicured lawn, but in a tournament, the

[24:52] players are very, very intense.

[24:55] A player has only one minute to figure

[24:57] out each shot, plan where he wants to be

[24:59] for the next shot, line up on the ball,

[25:02] and hit it. It's the thinking that looks

[25:04] so painful.

[25:06] >> Every now and then there's an argument.

[25:08] >> He hit the flag wall.

[25:11] >> Most of the players are businessmen,

[25:13] professional men, or their wives and

[25:14] widows. So, they're polite, but very

[25:17] determined.

[25:20] >> Jack,

[25:22] darling, it doesn't make any difference.

[25:24] He hit it.

[25:24] >> Where's Teddy?

[25:26] >> It is a stroke. Then it is a missed

[25:28] stroke. It is a missed stroke. It is

[25:30] similar to hitting two balls with your

[25:32] mallet.

[25:32] >> As a spectator sport, croquet has a long

[25:35] way to go.

[25:36] >> It is not a spectator sport in any form,

[25:38] shape, or way. Actually,

[25:41] >> Teddy, I'm I'm talking to that camera

[25:43] over there and he's recording me with

[25:44] the wireless microphone.

[25:47] >> Thank you. As a spectator sport, Cro has

[25:50] a long way to go in this game. It's the

[25:53] players who get the kicks. As one of

[25:55] them said, it's one game where you can

[25:57] drink and play at the same time. Richard

[26:00] Hunt, NBC News, New York.

[26:08] Have a nice weekend, everybody. Have a

[26:10] nice weekend, everybody. And good night

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