NBC Nightly News - 1982-04-02
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[0:03] This is NBC Nightly News with John
[0:06] Chancellor in New York. Chief Washington
[0:08] correspondent Roger Mud. And tonight's
[0:11] special segment, the United States and
[0:13] Central America. Good evening. A seaborn
[0:16] force of about 4,000 troops from
[0:19] Argentina today invaded the Faulland
[0:21] Islands and seized control of that
[0:23] British crown colony. Argentina has long
[0:26] claimed sovereignty over the islands,
[0:27] which lie in the South Atlantic. 400 m
[0:30] northeast of Cape Horn. An amateur radio
[0:33] operator in the capital city of Stanley
[0:35] reported a three-hour gun battle, but
[0:37] the Argentine government said only one
[0:39] of its men was killed. No word on the 80
[0:42] British Marines there. We have reports
[0:44] from London, where there is outrage, and
[0:46] Buenosiris, where there were
[0:47] celebrations.
[0:50] >> Thousands of Argentines took to the
[0:52] streets of Buenosiris to celebrate the
[0:54] invasion. The government told them there
[0:56] would be no retreat from the island.
[0:59] There are about 200 tiny islands in the
[1:01] Faulland chain. About 1,800 people live
[1:04] there, most of them British subjects
[1:06] called Kelpers who speak English. The
[1:08] islands have been the center of a
[1:09] sovereignty dispute between Argentina
[1:11] and Britain for almost 150 years.
[1:14] Potentially rich oil deposits around the
[1:16] island make them important to both
[1:18] countries. The Argentine forces landed
[1:20] from a naval task force like this one
[1:23] shown in recent maneuvers. The nation's
[1:25] biggest aircraft carrier, the May 25th,
[1:28] took part. British troops have been
[1:30] based on the island of East Faulland
[1:32] since Britain colonized the island in
[1:34] 1833.
[1:35] The Antarctic support vessel Endurance
[1:38] was the only British ship in port.
[1:40] Argentina denied reports that it had
[1:42] been sunk. In Buenosiris, President
[1:45] Leapo Galieri went on television and
[1:48] proclaimed the invasion a success. He
[1:50] said Britain had provoked Argentina, but
[1:53] he held out the possibility of
[1:54] negotiations.
[1:55] >> The president declared today a holiday.
[1:58] The street celebrations were in sharp
[2:00] contrast to scenes of anti-government
[2:02] rioting earlier this week. Critics of
[2:05] the government said the invasion was
[2:06] intended in large part to divert public
[2:08] attention from economic and political
[2:10] problems at home. Megan O'Reilly, NBC
[2:13] News, Bueno Cyrus.
[2:17] In London, Prime Minister Margaret
[2:19] Thatcher held two emergency cabinet
[2:21] meetings. She called the invasion
[2:23] unprovoked aggression and Britain broke
[2:25] off diplomatic relations with Argentina.
[2:28] The foreign secretary, Lord Carrington,
[2:30] admitted diplomacy had failed.
[2:32] >> Well, when whenever you fail to to solve
[2:34] something diplomatically, it's defeat.
[2:36] And it's not just a defeat for me, it's
[2:38] a defeat for the peace that we're
[2:40] seeking to maintain. Parliament was
[2:42] united in condemning the invasion,
[2:44] although some thought the Thatcher
[2:46] government should have been better
[2:47] prepared.
[2:48] >> I do believe that the indications of the
[2:51] tinpot fascist junter in the Argentine,
[2:53] they always do this sort of thing when
[2:56] they're having trouble at home.
[2:58] >> In Portsouth, Southwest England, a major
[3:00] naval task force is being mobilized.
[3:03] We're preparing a naval task force which
[3:05] is large enough and powerful enough uh
[3:08] to deal with any problems that it might
[3:09] meet in the South Atlantic. Uh we have
[3:12] not yet given the orders uh for that
[3:14] task force to sail. Uh and that is a
[3:17] matter we will be considering.
[3:19] >> Many Britons learned of the invasion
[3:21] only after it was over.
[3:22] >> Well, we've got to move in. We must move
[3:24] in.
[3:25] >> Using aggression to fight aggression is
[3:27] not going to help at all. Soldiers at
[3:29] several military bases have been packing
[3:32] >> at military airfields. Troop transports
[3:34] took off all day to undisclosed
[3:37] locations.
[3:38] >> The House of Commons meets tomorrow in
[3:40] emergency session. The first meeting on
[3:42] a Saturday since the Suez crisis in
[3:45] 1956, but the British don't have too
[3:47] many options to discuss. If diplomatic
[3:50] pressure fails, then military action
[3:52] would seem necessary if Britain wants to
[3:54] reclaim the Faullands. Steve Mallalerie,
[3:57] NBC News, London.
[4:00] >> The British Defense Minister was quoted
[4:02] as saying today that a naval force is
[4:04] now in the South Atlantic, but he didn't
[4:06] say where. At the United Nations,
[4:08] Britain asked the Security Council to
[4:10] tell Argentina to get out of the
[4:11] Faulland Islands. The Argentine delegate
[4:13] said what happened was not an invasion
[4:15] in his view, but a return of the islands
[4:17] to their rightful Argentinian
[4:19] sovereignty. In Washington, concern.
[4:22] Here's Roger Mut. Other than deploring
[4:25] and urging and condemning, there was
[4:27] very little the United States could do
[4:28] in the island dispute. But the White
[4:30] House did announce that last night,
[4:31] President Reagan put in a telephone call
[4:33] to Buenus Irish in an attempt to reverse
[4:35] the Argentine invasion. Judy Woodruff
[4:38] reports.
[4:40] >> Last night, the president spent 50
[4:42] minutes on the phone with Argentine
[4:44] President Galieri. Working through an
[4:46] interpreter, Mr. Reagan tried to talk
[4:48] Galtieri out of the invasion, warning
[4:50] that the use of force would be met by
[4:52] force from the British, stressing that
[4:54] Prime Minister Thatcher was determined
[4:56] and would not give in and adding the use
[4:58] of force would wreck recently improving
[5:00] US relations with Argentina because the
[5:03] American people in the Congress would
[5:04] regard it as an act of aggression.
[5:06] Galtier, for his part, thanked Mr.
[5:08] Reagan, but said time had run out since
[5:11] the British refused to give up
[5:12] sovereignty. Today the president
[5:14] expressed regret that his efforts to
[5:16] stop the Argentinians had failed.
[5:18] >> I wish it had not gone forward. I
[5:20] understand they have landed there. Uh
[5:24] and I did talk to the president of
[5:26] Argentina and trying to persuade him not
[5:28] to go forward with that.
[5:29] >> And what action would the US take?
[5:32] >> U just to be of help if we can in this
[5:34] dispute.
[5:35] >> At the State Department, a spokesman
[5:37] called on the Argentinians to pull out.
[5:39] We've made clear that we deplore the use
[5:41] of force by the government of Argentina
[5:43] to resolve this dispute. We've called on
[5:45] Argentina to cease immediately
[5:47] hostilities and to withdraw its military
[5:49] forces from the Faulland Islands.
[5:51] >> Officials refused to say publicly who
[5:54] the US believes has claimed to the
[5:55] Faullands. But as one official put it,
[5:57] "We wish the British had pulled out some
[5:59] time ago." The president got involved
[6:02] because the administration was anxious
[6:03] to avoid having two of its key allies in
[6:06] military conflict. The British are
[6:08] strongest ally in Europe and Argentina a
[6:11] key supporter of American policy in
[6:13] Central America. Judy Woodruff, NBC
[6:16] News, the White House.
[6:18] >> As an example of how the administration
[6:19] is trying to play the episode down the
[6:21] middle, State Department spokesman
[6:22] Romberg tried to avoid using either the
[6:25] British name, the Faulland Islands, or
[6:26] the Argentine name, the Malvinus
[6:28] Islands. He simply called them the
[6:30] islands.
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[7:39] >> unemployment last month rose to 9% of
[7:41] the workforce. Since the end of the
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[7:59] have quit looking for work. In the 15
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[8:04] higher. Here's our economics
[8:06] correspondent, Irving Ar Lavine.
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[8:14] >> The number of unemployed Americans
[8:16] looking for jobs increased by 280,000 in
[8:20] March. In Norfol, Virginia, they crowded
[8:22] into the federal building when
[8:24] applications were invited for possible
[8:26] future jobs. In Birmingham, Alabama,
[8:30] hundreds camped out all night to apply
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[8:46] >> I've never seen it like this down here
[8:47] in Houston.
[8:48] >> It's always been a broom town all the
[8:50] time I've been down here. Similarly, in
[8:52] Atlanta, the Scottsdale textile mill,
[8:55] owned by the same family for three
[8:57] generations, is closing down. 500 people
[9:00] laid off everywhere. It's worst for
[9:03] black teenagers, 46% unemployed. At a
[9:07] congressional hearing, the government's
[9:09] chief statistician, Janet Norwood,
[9:11] predicted a further growth in
[9:13] unemployment, which led Senator Kennedy
[9:16] sarcastically to nominate the president
[9:18] for an Oscar. Perhaps there should have
[9:20] been one for creating the highest
[9:24] interest rates, highest deficits,
[9:27] highest unemployment.
[9:29] White House officials say things will
[9:31] improve once the Reagan program has more
[9:33] time to work. Treasury Secretary Regan
[9:36] says he's positive unemployment won't go
[9:39] much higher, not to 10%. But some
[9:41] economists say the unemployment rate
[9:43] will hit 10% before it starts dropping.
[9:47] Irving R. Lavine, NBC News, Washington.
[9:51] >> Other unemployment figures, the key
[9:53] indicator, adult men, is nearly 8%. For
[9:56] blacks, the jobless rate is 18%. In the
[9:59] construction industry, unemployment is
[10:00] nearly 18%, it's 14% for agricultural
[10:04] workers, and the worst off state is
[10:06] Michigan, where the unemployment rate is
[10:08] now more than 16%.
[10:10] More news from Washington now, and Roger
[10:12] Mut. President Reagan today decided to
[10:15] slow down the trend which began after
[10:17] World War II toward opening up
[10:18] government files. The order Mr. Reagan
[10:21] signed today was not as restrictive as
[10:23] the draft his aids originally wrote, but
[10:25] one critic said today the message is
[10:27] still classify, classify, classify.
[10:29] Here's John Palmer.
[10:31] The 19-page executive order signed by
[10:34] the president today makes it much easier
[10:36] for the administration to invoke
[10:38] national security to classify government
[10:40] documents top secret, secret, and
[10:43] confidential. The new order states,
[10:46] "Enformation shall be considered for
[10:48] classification if it concerns the
[10:50] vulnerabilities or capabilities of
[10:52] systems, installations, projects, or
[10:54] plans relating to national security." a
[10:57] catch-all phrase which gives the Reagan
[10:59] administration broad new powers to
[11:02] classify documents. President Reagan
[11:04] said the new order would not hide
[11:06] violations of the law, inefficiency, or
[11:08] administrative error, or prevent public
[11:11] release of information that does not
[11:13] require national security protection.
[11:16] But Representative Glenn English,
[11:17] chairman of the House Government
[11:19] Information and Individual Rights
[11:21] Subcommittee, disagrees. Well, I think
[11:23] the bottom line is that the American
[11:24] public is going to know a lot lot less
[11:27] about the operations of its government.
[11:29] It's going to be a lot less informed and
[11:31] it's going to be a lot more difficult to
[11:32] make good judgments about the operation
[11:34] of that government. Administration
[11:36] officials deny the new executive order
[11:38] has been made deliberately vague to make
[11:41] it easier to classify government
[11:42] documents secret, but they concede it is
[11:45] designed to make it more difficult for
[11:47] the courts to order documents
[11:49] declassified and made public. John
[11:51] Palmer, NBC News. At the White House,
[11:54] >> the State Department has denied the
[11:56] Irish Protestant leader Ian Paisley
[11:58] permission to visit Bob Jones University
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[13:56] Israeli troops shot and wounded four
[13:58] Drews Arab protesters in two towns on
[14:01] the recently annexed Golan Heights
[14:03] today. Israeli officers said in both
[14:05] incidents, troops fired after rocks were
[14:08] thrown at them. Soviet officials refused
[14:10] to comment today on a report that Leaned
[14:13] Brv may have had a mild stroke a week
[14:15] ago on his way home from a trip to Tash
[14:17] Kent. An article in the Washington Post
[14:19] also said Brv reportedly suffered a mild
[14:22] heart attack in late February. Jim
[14:24] Compton has a report.
[14:27] >> Brit's health deteriorated visibly on
[14:29] his exhausting 4-day tour of Tash Kent
[14:31] last week. Western diplomats say he may
[14:33] have undertaken the demanding trip just
[14:35] to prove that he could, but Soviet
[14:37] television was forced to show frequent
[14:39] and long shots of the audience to avoid
[14:41] picturing the ailing Soviet leader. As
[14:44] Brv wearied, several official meetings
[14:46] were cancelled and he was last seen in
[14:48] public at an airport ceremony as he
[14:50] departed for Moscow. Throughout that
[14:52] ceremony, Soviet television took pains
[14:54] not to picture a weakened Breav. There
[14:57] is no confirmation here of reports that
[14:59] he grew seriously ill during the flight
[15:01] to Moscow.
[15:02] >> Western diplomats believe that Brev is
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[15:06] Constantine Chernenko, a politic bureau
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[15:11] being. Chernenko has apparently taken on
[15:13] the duties of Mikail Suslav, the
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[15:17] died in February, though with none of
[15:19] Suslav's enormous prestige. Chernenko is
[15:22] widely expected to take power if Brev
[15:25] cannot continue in office. The days when
[15:27] Leonid Brev could easily marshall
[15:29] political consent on any issue,
[15:31] including his own succession, appear to
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[15:36] Soviet leadership is of such stature
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[15:40] post Brev era. James Compton, NBC News,
[15:44] Moscow.
[15:46] Hurricane force winds slammed into parts
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[15:50] drifts in the higher elevations and
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[15:55] The winds arrived with an eastwardbound
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[15:59] snow in the California mountains. Steve
[16:01] Gray of Denver Station KOA has a report.
[16:05] >> The wind started in the morning and
[16:07] didn't give up through the afternoon.
[16:09] Gusts in Denver were reported around 70
[16:11] mph with winds blowing at more than 100
[16:14] mph in the foothills west of the city.
[16:16] There was one reported gust of more than
[16:19] 140 mph north of Denver. Damage was
[16:22] widespread. Plate glass windows were
[16:25] shattered and billboards were blown
[16:26] over. Crews were also kept busy removing
[16:29] fallen trees which cut off power lines
[16:32] and damaged homes.
[16:33] >> Well, I was standing in the back
[16:35] watching this tree knowing it was going
[16:37] to come down. Nothing I could do about
[16:38] it. Made a big noise. I thought it blew
[16:41] up the house. It just missed me by
[16:45] seconds.
[16:46] >> Despite all the damage, officials say
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[16:50] Weather forecasters are predicting
[16:52] diminishing winds through the night.
[16:54] Steve Gray for NBC News in Denver.
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[18:32] >> Roberto Dwison, the leader of the most
[18:34] popular right-wing party in El Salvador,
[18:36] was talking today about the left-wing
[18:38] rebel groups which are fighting there.
[18:40] He said, "We will pass an amnesty law,
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[18:46] Doson also promised to carry out the
[18:48] reforms which have been started in El
[18:50] Salvador.
[18:52] Last night in our special segment, we
[18:53] looked at the people and geography of
[18:55] Central America. Tonight, Richard
[18:57] Valyriani looks at the history of
[18:58] American involvement there.
[19:03] Nicaraguan exiles training in Florida.
[19:06] A buildup of American military advisers
[19:08] in Honduras next door to Nicaragua.
[19:11] Many people are asking if the United
[19:13] States is preparing to intervene
[19:14] militarily in Central America. Once
[19:16] again,
[19:18] >> there are no plans to send American
[19:20] combat troops into action any place in
[19:22] the world.
[19:23] >> But Latin American expert Abraham
[19:25] Lowenthal of the Woodro Wilson Institute
[19:27] in Washington says the perspective is
[19:29] different in Managa.
[19:30] >> But from the Nicaraguan standpoint, you
[19:33] know, that country has never been
[19:34] invaded by anyone but the United States.
[19:36] and uh they are probably conditioned to
[19:39] uh to worrying about what uh an
[19:42] administration might do that reserves
[19:44] the right to use force that wants to
[19:46] keep all its options open. So from their
[19:48] standpoint uh they don't have to be uh
[19:51] uh crazy to be uh to be fearful.
[19:54] >> US Marines intervene repeatedly in
[19:56] Nicaragua's internal affairs during the
[19:57] early 1900s to put down rebellions and
[20:00] to protect American commercial
[20:01] interests. Not until 1933 did they
[20:04] withdraw for good, leaving behind a
[20:07] dictatorial dynasty established by
[20:08] Anastasio Samosa, a US-trained National
[20:12] Guard commander. It was President
[20:14] Theodore Roosevelt who provided the
[20:16] institutional rationale for
[20:17] intervention. His corollary to the
[20:20] Monroe Doctrine claimed America's right
[20:22] to exercise police power in this
[20:24] hemisphere.
[20:25] When the building of the Panama Canal
[20:27] was blocked by Colombia, Roosevelt
[20:29] simply helped carve out a new nation,
[20:31] Panama, and then made a treaty with it.
[20:34] Under General Smidley Butler, the
[20:37] Marines turned the Caribbean into an
[20:38] American lake during the early part of
[20:40] the century. Butler boasted about his
[20:42] role, writing, "I helped make Mexico
[20:45] safe for American oil interests. I
[20:48] helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent
[20:49] place for the National City Bank Boys to
[20:51] collect revenue in. I helped pacify
[20:54] Nicaragua for the international banking
[20:55] house of Brown Brothers. I brought light
[20:58] to the Dominican Republic for American
[20:59] sugar interests. I helped make Honduras
[21:02] right for American fruit companies.
[21:05] Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
[21:07] the United States sought to improve
[21:08] relations with the other countries of
[21:09] this hemisphere. Roosevelt declared a
[21:12] good neighbor policy and direct military
[21:14] intervention stopped for a while. But in
[21:17] 1954, when Guatemala's left-wing
[21:19] president Hakobo Arben carried forward a
[21:22] land reform program instituted by his
[21:24] predecessor at the expense of the United
[21:26] Fruit Company, the United States
[21:28] condemned him as pro-communist, a pawn
[21:30] of Moscow.
[21:32] With President Dwight Eisenhower's
[21:34] approval, the CIA went to work
[21:35] organizing, training, and arming an
[21:37] exile force, which overthrew the freely
[21:40] elected government of Arbans.
[21:42] 7 years later, a similar operation
[21:44] failed miserably at the Bay of Pigs in
[21:46] Cuba. An army of Cuban exiles, also
[21:49] organized and trained by the CIA, was
[21:51] quickly overwhelmed by the forces of
[21:53] Fidel Castro. President John F. Kennedy
[21:56] refused to provide air cover for the
[21:58] exiles.
[22:00] After leading a triumphal revolution to
[22:02] power in 1959, Castro drifted steadily
[22:05] into the Soviet orbit, expropriating
[22:07] millions of dollars worth of American
[22:09] property along the way.
[22:12] The spectre of Castro haunted the civil
[22:14] war which broke out in the nearby
[22:16] Dominican Republic in 1965
[22:18] when supporters of deposed President
[22:20] Juan Bosch tried to restore him to
[22:22] power. President Lyndon Johnson sent
[22:25] Marines and troopers of the 82nd
[22:26] Airborne to Santa Domingo to restore
[22:28] order. And he left no doubt why. The
[22:32] American nation
[22:34] cannot, must not,
[22:39] and will not
[22:42] permit the establishment of another
[22:44] communist government
[22:47] in the Western Hemisphere.
[22:49] >> It was only 17 years ago that the United
[22:51] States last interveneed militarily in
[22:53] the Caribbean. Since then, however, the
[22:56] United States has been severely shaken
[22:57] by an intervention abroad, the one in
[23:00] Vietnam. And the damage done to the
[23:02] national spirit by that experience is
[23:04] clearly affecting any thought of
[23:06] reviving gunboat diplomacy in 1982.
[23:09] Richard Valyriani, NBC News, Washington.
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[24:47] >> Klaus von Bulo went back to court in
[24:49] Newport, Rhode Island today to ask for a
[24:51] new trial. Last month, a jury convicted
[24:54] him of twice trying to murder his wife.
[24:56] After that trial, one of Von Bulo's
[24:58] lawyers said someone had contacted him
[25:00] with information that would prove Von
[25:02] Bulo's innocence, but no mystery witness
[25:04] appeared today. Lee McCarthy reports.
[25:07] Von Bulo's lawyer, Harold Price
[25:09] Baringer, moved for a new trial, arguing
[25:11] that the state had never proved that
[25:12] Klaus von Bulo injected his wife with
[25:14] insulin, never proved he possessed the
[25:16] black bag that was critical prosecution
[25:18] evidence.
[25:19] >> This case, I believe, illustrates better
[25:21] than any other the hazards of
[25:24] circumstantial evidence.
[25:25] >> Prosecutor Steven Fami rejected that
[25:28] claim. state is confident that all of
[25:30] the evidence and all of the testimony
[25:31] points in one direction and one
[25:33] direction only and that is to the guilt
[25:35] of the defendant plus Judge Thomas Nem
[25:39] then went through a lengthy detailed
[25:40] review of the evidence and the testimony
[25:42] and agreed with the jury's verdict.
[25:45] >> It's not against the evidence, the law,
[25:48] and the weight thereof.
[25:49] >> Judge Neon denied the motion for a new
[25:51] trial. The state then moved to have Von
[25:53] Bulo's $100,000 bail revoked on the
[25:56] ground that Von Bulo might flee the
[25:57] country. The judge wouldn't do that, but
[26:00] he did raise the bail. I'm going to
[26:02] direct that he
[26:04] post bail
[26:06] in the sum of $1.5 million, $500,000.
[26:11] That is a as large a sum of money that
[26:15] this justice has ever imposed upon a
[26:18] convicted felon. But I feel that this
[26:20] defendant has substantial control of
[26:23] money, has substantial assets.
[26:26] >> Von Bulo came prepared. He posted
[26:28] $50,000 in certificates of deposit as
[26:31] shy against the half million bail and
[26:33] was released until his sentencing May
[26:35] 7th. Lee McCarthy, NBC News, Newport,
[26:38] Rhode Island.
[26:40] >> And that's nightly news for this Friday.
[26:42] John Hart will be here tomorrow. And on
[26:44] Monday, a brand new nightly news. NBC
[26:47] News has appointed two, count them, two
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[26:58] As for me, after 2,860
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[27:07] appearing three or four times a week.
[27:10] What pleases me most is that I don't
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