NBC Nightly News - 1977-09-08

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[0:05] This is NBC Nightly News

[0:08] with David Brinkley in Washington and

[0:11] John Chancellor in New York.

[0:15] >> Good evening. The comproller of the

[0:16] currency, John Heyman, told the Senate

[0:19] committee today that if it had been up

[0:21] to him, he would not have recommended

[0:23] Bert Lance to be budget director. Heyman

[0:25] told the governmental affairs committee

[0:27] that while his lengthy report on Lance

[0:29] last month found no evidence of

[0:31] illegality justifying prosecution, it

[0:34] did show financial improprieties. Irving

[0:36] our Lavine has more

[0:42] avoiding a direct reply to senators who

[0:44] asked if he would have recommended Bert

[0:47] Lance to be budget director.

[0:49] >> Then you you would recommend uh his his

[0:51] confirmation.

[0:54] No, I Let me try that question again.

[0:57] You're You were asking if I would

[0:59] recommend

[1:00] >> I'm not trying to put you on the spot,

[1:01] but I think it's a very

[1:03] >> It's funny I feel that way.

[1:06] >> I feel

[1:07] >> finally Heyman told the senators he

[1:09] would not have written a letter of

[1:10] recommendation for Lance. And after

[1:13] reciting a long list of Lance's

[1:15] violations of banking regulations, he

[1:17] criticized Lance's ability as a banker.

[1:21] >> Would you state that Mr. lands meets the

[1:24] standard of ethical conduct in the

[1:26] banking industry that you expect as a

[1:29] controller of currency.

[1:30] >> I I would think I would state senator

[1:32] that

[1:34] uh Mr. Lance in the management of some

[1:38] of his banking practices needed to be

[1:41] corrected.

[1:42] >> What controller Heyman told the senators

[1:44] is that he would give Bert Lance a

[1:46] second chance as a banker even though he

[1:49] made mistakes and engaged in unsafe

[1:51] banking practices. Lance's supporters on

[1:54] the Senate committee hope that judgment

[1:56] will help Lance keep his job as budget

[1:58] director despite the growing demands

[2:01] that Lance resign. Irving R. Leavine,

[2:04] NBC News at the capital.

[2:08] >> Tom Pettit, there are some demands that

[2:10] Lance resign. Is it what you would call

[2:12] a swelling chorus?

[2:14] >> Yes, absolutely, David. More politicians

[2:16] and more newspapers are joining the

[2:18] resignation chorus. If Bert Lance were

[2:21] reading the New York Daily News in his

[2:23] office today, he'd have read an

[2:25] editorial calling for him to be gone. Be

[2:28] gone.

[2:29] No comment from Lance.

[2:33] >> No comment from his boss. It was

[2:36] appointed no comment, not even in words,

[2:37] but in body language. When a reporter

[2:40] asked him about the Lance editorials,

[2:43] >> that was it.

[2:44] >> How much longer?

[2:45] >> That was all of it. Mr. Carter has

[2:47] learned not to talk. Maybe by watching

[2:49] G. Gordon Letty.

[2:54] Mr. Lance has become the butt of black

[2:57] humor by newspaper editorial

[2:59] cartoonists. In the Baltimore Sun today,

[3:01] this one by Flannry. The blind leading

[3:04] the blind

[3:06] in the Los Angeles Times by Conrad. A

[3:09] hold up man saying Bert Lance sent me.

[3:13] Two Democratic governors now want Lance

[3:15] out. Five in Congress want him out.

[3:19] Others say privately he has been hurt so

[3:21] much that people think he and Carter

[3:24] don't know right from wrong. That Lance

[3:26] David should quit right after

[3:27] testifying. Tom, you've talked to a lot

[3:30] of people around town today. Do you

[3:31] think Lance will go?

[3:33] >> Ultimately, yes.

[3:35] >> Thank you.

[3:37] One of those anxiously awaiting the

[3:39] outcome of all this is Lance's wife,

[3:41] Mrs. Label Lance. in an interview.

[3:43] Here's what she thought about what is

[3:45] happening to her husband a few months

[3:47] after they both moved to Washington.

[3:52] I don't understand all the banking

[3:55] terminology, but I do know this that

[3:58] perhaps if you had a fundraising in one

[4:01] account and a checking account in

[4:03] another and a savings account somewhere

[4:05] else and a household budget account

[4:07] somewhere else. If one of those accounts

[4:11] should become overdrawn because say you

[4:14] had a huge advertising bill that came in

[4:17] which would explain something like the

[4:19] 50,000s and 100,000 account if that's

[4:23] for a total campaign for governor

[4:26] then if that did not be fully accounted

[4:31] in one account they were to take from

[4:34] another account and I know my husband

[4:36] had even deposited a personal

[4:39] account with a check signed by him from

[4:43] his own account to say now use this if

[4:46] I'm ever close to being overdrawn in

[4:48] maybe one of those campaign accounts. So

[4:50] the whole point is the money was in the

[4:52] bank. It was just maybe not in that very

[4:55] very account.

[4:57] uh in my own mind I know that none of

[5:01] the charges are true that they are all

[5:04] totally explainable and I think in due

[5:07] time we will see that

[5:10] >> the latest Harris poll shows that 33% of

[5:13] its respondents give Mr. Carter positive

[5:15] marks for handling the Lance case, but

[5:18] more than that, 40% give him a negative

[5:20] rating, while 27% aren't sure. And the

[5:23] president's overall job rating shows 52%

[5:27] favorable. That's down 17 points from

[5:30] last April's high mark. The president

[5:32] was asked about these figures today. And

[5:34] here is some of what he said. that's

[5:36] related to the last.

[5:38] >> It's hard to say u you know what causes

[5:41] the ups and downs of u of a public

[5:45] officials uh approval rating.

[5:48] I think though that uh if I continue to

[5:52] make a judgment on each individual

[5:55] decision that confronts me on the basis

[5:57] of its merits uh that ultimately I'll

[6:00] I'll survive and and u and will retain

[6:05] an adequate support from our people.

[6:08] >> The Harris figures bear out the White

[6:10] House's own report that the Mail has

[6:12] been running two to one against the

[6:14] administration on the Lance case.

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[7:57] The President of the US and the Prime

[7:59] Minister of Canada have agreed on the

[8:01] building of a huge pipeline to bring

[8:03] natural gas from Alaska to the 48

[8:06] states. It'll cost a lot, but eventually

[8:08] it'll save money, they say. Here's Rick

[8:11] Davis.

[8:14] >> The only evidence of natural gas you see

[8:15] in Prudto Bay, Alaska, is this waste

[8:17] burnoff. Most of the gas is just pumped

[8:19] back underground. There is an oil

[8:21] pipeline here, but there's no way to get

[8:22] the gas out. Now, there are several

[8:24] proposals. This is the plan favored by

[8:27] the US and Canadian governments. The gas

[8:29] would be piped to an area near

[8:30] Fairbanks, then along the Alcan Highway,

[8:33] and down to the lower 48 through Canada.

[8:35] it would pass through the beauty of the

[8:37] Yukon territory. Although governments

[8:39] favor the route, a lot of the people

[8:40] here do not, particularly the Indians.

[8:43] They point to the huge caribou herds and

[8:45] say that their natural migration may be

[8:47] disturbed by the pipeline, destroying

[8:49] the herds. And they point to the past,

[8:52] the gold rush days, when much was taken

[8:55] from this land, but little was returned.

[8:58] They point to the ghost towns and ask

[9:00] their government if the pipeline will

[9:01] mean more ghost towns when construction

[9:04] is over.

[9:05] These people will will take their

[9:07] profits and leave while remain behind

[9:10] with the social and environmental ills

[9:12] with no steady work. Are we animals that

[9:15] we cannot think of ourselves? The land

[9:18] is our string to hold on to. We are

[9:22] asking you to leave us at least that.

[9:28] >> The people of the Yukon point to the

[9:29] towns of Alaska with their fast growth,

[9:31] inflation, crime, and hope it will not

[9:33] happen to them. But now they know the

[9:36] pipeline is on the way. Rick Davis, NBC

[9:39] News.

[9:40] >> In Washington, the House of

[9:41] Representatives today voted 22 to 199 to

[9:46] stop production of the B1 bomber. Two

[9:48] votes. The other way would have changed

[9:50] the outcome. But now the House, the

[9:52] Senate, and President Carter all agree.

[9:54] No B1.

[9:56] Senator John Sparkman, chairman of the

[9:58] Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

[10:00] today told General Omar Torios of Panama

[10:02] that he can't be sure that the Senate

[10:04] will approve the Panama Canal Treaty.

[10:06] And Ronald Reagan in a Washington speech

[10:08] called Torios a dictator.

[10:12] Edidy Aamin of Uganda operated on

[10:14] yesterday is reported today to be in

[10:16] some sort of coma. His condition is

[10:18] serious and they don't know what's

[10:20] wrong. The Tong Sun Park case has

[10:22] reached a rather high level. Jimmy

[10:25] Carter himself has written the president

[10:27] of South Korea asking that Park be sent

[10:29] here to face charges of bribing

[10:31] congressmen. David,

[10:33] three years ago today, Richard Nixon got

[10:35] a full absolute pardon. G. Gordon Litty

[10:38] did not. Nixon has spent the years since

[10:41] at San Clementi. Litty has spent them in

[10:43] prison. Well, now he is out talking a

[10:46] little but not much. Here's Carl Stern.

[10:51] Joined by his family, Litty came forward

[10:53] to thank President Carter for shortening

[10:55] his prison term and to complain about

[10:57] prison conditions.

[10:59] He shed no new light on Watergate,

[11:02] disclaiming responsibility for President

[11:04] Nixon's downfall. Litty described

[11:06] himself as the strong link who never

[11:09] broke silence about Watergate. I don't

[11:11] know that one can

[11:14] uh lay the blame

[11:18] on a particular link in a chain unless

[11:21] that link has snapped. I submit to you

[11:24] that I have yet to snap.

[11:26] >> Do you have uh any remorse uh because of

[11:30] your involvement in in war?

[11:35] >> No.

[11:36] >> Why not, sir?

[11:40] Just no.

[11:42] >> Ly likened himself to a lieutenant who

[11:44] had followed a prince. He refused to

[11:46] speak unkindly of Richard Nixon,

[11:48] although Mr. Nixon has spoken unkindly

[11:50] of him. Litty's parting shot was for the

[11:53] man who first revealed Watergate, John

[11:55] Dean.

[11:56] >> What do you think about John Dean?

[12:00] >> Qualified fully to sing the title role

[12:03] in Rosen Cavalier.

[12:06] Carl Stern, NBC News, Washington.

[12:10] >> Supreme Court Justice William Brennan

[12:12] said today the court has no objection to

[12:15] a gymnasium being built where four Kent

[12:17] State students died in 1970. But efforts

[12:20] to block construction continue in a

[12:22] lower court. And a county judge in

[12:25] Wisconsin has been removed from the

[12:26] bench. The first judge to lose his job

[12:29] in a recall election in the history of

[12:31] Wisconsin. One reason, some unpopular

[12:33] remarks he made about a rape case.

[12:37] >> This is Judge Archie Simson accepting

[12:40] defeat.

[12:42] >> That's all right. He ended up worse than

[12:44] this.

[12:46] >> Newsmen asked him a lot of questions

[12:47] about it last night. There were long

[12:50] pauses and short answers.

[12:53] Question. What is the meaning of your

[12:55] defeat?

[13:01] I suspect it means a lot of things.

[13:04] >> One of the things it means is that for

[13:06] the first time in the history of Dne

[13:07] County, a woman was elected judge. She

[13:10] is Moria Kger, a lawyer. How are you?

[13:15] >> Kger is one of five people who ran

[13:17] against Judge Simonson. The theme of her

[13:20] campaign was that Simson was a bad judge

[13:22] even before he started talking about

[13:24] rape. The cost of her campaign will be

[13:27] about seven times as much as Simson's.

[13:30] >> There was a certain education.

[13:31] >> Creger spent most of this day talking

[13:32] about her victory.

[13:34] >> Here is one of the things she thinks she

[13:36] proved.

[13:37] >> Gratuitous remarks from the judge on the

[13:39] bench. By that I mean remarks that are

[13:41] not necessarily related to the case or

[13:43] the facts at hand are not what the

[13:45] people want coming from their judges.

[13:47] >> Archie Simson says that he will never

[13:49] run for judge or any other office again.

[13:54] Eric Burns, NBC News, Madison,

[13:56] Wisconsin.

[14:00] >> City dwellers in recent months may have

[14:02] been a little confused by the news from

[14:04] the farms. There have been reports of

[14:06] too much cold, too much heat, too much

[14:09] rain, too little rain causing the farms

[14:11] to blow away in clouds of dust. Well, in

[14:14] California at least, somehow it has all

[14:16] worked out and there's a huge harvest

[14:19] and even the garlic crop is good. Here's

[14:21] Frank Burkholzer.

[14:24] >> California's farms have not dried up and

[14:26] blown away in the drought.

[14:31] The harvest in California this year is

[14:33] bountiful.

[14:35] Gross farm income is expected to be the

[14:38] second best in history. The tomato

[14:41] harvest will be just about the best in

[14:43] history. And prices are good, too.

[14:46] Almonds, a big cash crop in California,

[14:49] will have a record harvest this year,

[14:51] and so will walnuts. Raisin grapes are

[14:54] smaller this year because of the lack of

[14:56] water, but the crop still will be nearly

[14:58] 2 million tons, which is very good.

[15:02] Wine grapes probably will have a record

[15:04] harvest because more vines than ever are

[15:07] producing, although each vine's output

[15:10] is less because of the dryness. But this

[15:13] also means the quality, at least for red

[15:15] wines, will be extra good this year. The

[15:19] garlic harvest is good this year. Garlic

[15:22] takes relatively little water and is

[15:24] selling at high prices. In this vein,

[15:27] farmers have switched crops. Fewer acres

[15:29] of corn and wheat, for example, which

[15:31] have a bad market anyway. More crops

[15:33] like cotton and tomatoes, which have a

[15:36] good market. They've also spent money to

[15:38] dig wells, recycle water. So net income

[15:41] is down, but this year at least they

[15:43] have conquered the drought. Frank Burke

[15:46] Holdzer, NBC News, in the central valley

[15:48] of California.

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[17:31] >> Our segment three this evening, healing

[17:33] the sick and the lame as an act of faith

[17:36] has not always been taken seriously or

[17:38] literally and in general probably still

[17:40] is not. But nevertheless, there is a

[17:43] growing interest in it rapidly growing.

[17:46] A Roman Catholic priest in Pittsburgh,

[17:48] Massachusetts, believes he and his faith

[17:50] are an instrument of healing, even

[17:53] though many might not accept this. And

[17:55] obviously, we cannot explain or prove or

[17:58] endorse what he says he is doing, but it

[18:00] is interesting to know about it.

[18:02] Nevertheless, here's Lee McCarthy.

[18:13] Father Ralph Dioro performs the ordinary

[18:16] duties of a Roman Catholic priest.

[18:19] But he is not an ordinary priest. When

[18:22] he gives a blessing, strange things

[18:25] happen.

[18:30] I remember when I was a priest about

[18:32] four years I I was working with the poor

[18:36] in Adikoken Ontario and this natural

[18:39] desire to stay with the poor and the

[18:41] Lord seemed to bless it very much

[18:43] whenever I would assist these uh sick

[18:45] persons with the sacrament of rights of

[18:47] the church for the sick uh people were

[18:50] were regaining their health.

[18:54] Father Dioro is a charismatic priest, a

[18:56] priest said to have the gift of healing.

[19:05] Not everyone he touches gets well, but

[19:08] there have been enough mysterious

[19:10] recoveries to bewilder many of the

[19:12] skeptics

[19:17] at his services. Some are what Father

[19:20] Dioro calls slain in the spirit. When he

[19:24] touches them, they collapse and remain

[19:27] unconscious for as long as an hour.

[19:38] When father touched me, it was such a

[19:41] beautiful feeling like God says you

[19:44] aren't you're mine. After a few minutes,

[19:48] I just opened my eyes and I could see

[19:51] the people singing with their

[19:53] outstretched arms and I just knew that I

[19:56] was healed and I know that I'm going

[19:59] back healed after needing a transplant.

[20:06] >> The charismatic renewal is the fastest

[20:08] growing movement in the Roman Catholic

[20:09] Church.

[20:11] from a handful of believers 10 years

[20:13] ago. It now numbers half a million

[20:16] Catholics and several hundred priests.

[20:20] >> I think the renewal is because we have a

[20:25] society which has completely lost itself

[20:28] in materialism

[20:30] uh has turned itself to a countless uh

[20:34] amount of escapisms, neuroticisms. They

[20:38] they've tried sex without love. They've

[20:40] tried dope. Uh they've tried alcohol.

[20:44] And finally, having run uh the

[20:47] merrygoround of these escapisms, they

[20:51] finally are turning on to God.

[21:12] Thousands turn to God here each week.

[21:14] They come from all walks of life, from

[21:17] all parts of the United States.

[21:21] >> What they have in common is hope. Hope

[21:23] that they will have a spiritual

[21:25] reawakening, perhaps a physical miracle.

[21:32] We've had miracles where you see legs

[21:35] just grow two or three inches or we've

[21:38] seen our spinal column just straighten

[21:40] out or discs or crooked faces or mouths

[21:46] just straighten right out. It's

[21:48] something to orac and it makes you very

[21:51] very humble because you know it's not

[21:52] you.

[22:02] I am a doctor. My wife Dorothy had

[22:04] besitis in her right shoulder and it was

[22:07] instantly alleviated being at the

[22:09] service with Father Diario. I also have

[22:12] a patient who was severely crippled with

[22:14] arthritis after several months of

[22:16] surgery and he had to remain in a

[22:19] wheelchair and he met me at the door and

[22:21] led me to the pew for the services. It

[22:25] was amazing. I have no answers for it.

[22:31] >> And so they come confident that they are

[22:34] right and the doubters wrong. That one

[22:37] need only believe.

[23:06] Lee McCarthy, NBC News.

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[24:55] Two brief items. A 19-year-old girl from

[24:58] Canada named Cindy Nicholas today

[25:00] arrived in Dover, England. The first

[25:02] woman to swim the English Channel both

[25:04] ways nonstop. She also cut the previous

[25:07] channel record by a whopping 10 hours.

[25:10] In Washington, the National Cancer

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[25:19] but will rely instead on case histories

[25:21] of patients who have already tried

[25:24] Leatril. David,

[25:26] tax collectors use one cute trick or one

[25:29] dirty trick after another to get people

[25:31] to pay their taxes. Well, Boston now is

[25:34] trying a trick that isn't new, but may

[25:36] be somewhat effective. Embarrassing

[25:38] people who owe taxes by posting in

[25:40] public places their names, pictures, and

[25:43] the amounts owed. Here's Robert Hagar.

[25:47] >> Boston's crackdown on delinquent

[25:48] taxpayers began in June when 6,000 names

[25:51] were printed in the Boston Globe. Within

[25:54] a few weeks, the city collected $2

[25:55] million in back bills. Last week, the

[25:58] city lined up its fleet of tow trucks

[26:00] and began seizing taxi cabs from cab

[26:02] drivers it claimed owed money. The

[26:04] cabies paid up $21,000.

[26:07] Next, the city tried to seize a

[26:09] helicopter owned by the well-known

[26:10] lawyer Effley Bailey. Bailey quickly

[26:13] paid $5,000 of a disputed tax bill. And

[26:16] today, in the lobby of city hall, a

[26:18] display was unveiled featuring posters

[26:21] of prominent people the city claims have

[26:23] ignored tax bills for years. Among them,

[26:25] a former city housing inspector, a state

[26:28] senator, and a state representative.

[26:31] Some of them said they hadn't paid

[26:32] because they were arguing about the size

[26:34] of their bills. Boston's mayor, Kevin

[26:36] White, presided at today's opening and

[26:38] said, "If this doesn't work, the city

[26:40] may try billboard displays."

[26:42] But while Boston is plunging ahead with

[26:44] its campaign to publicize those it says

[26:47] owe taxes, city fathers in the suburb of

[26:50] Rivier just north of here are having

[26:52] second thoughts about a similar campaign

[26:54] there. They were about to publish a list

[26:56] of delinquent taxpayers in Rivier and

[26:58] somebody discovered the mayor of

[26:59] Ravier's name was on the list. The mayor

[27:02] explained he'd forgotten about the bill

[27:03] and settled up to the tune of $4,000.

[27:07] Robert Hager, NBC News, Boston.

[27:10] Thank you and good night from

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