NBC Nightly News open - 1977-05-10

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

[0:04] Chancellor

[0:06] and David Brinkley.

[0:07] Tonight, Tuesday, May 10th, reported

[0:09] from London and the NBC News Center in

[0:12] New York.

[0:13] >> Good evening. The Senate Foreign

[0:15] Relations Committee voted today to

[0:16] improve relations with Cuba. It

[0:19] recommended that the Cubans be allowed

[0:21] to buy medicine and agricultural

[0:23] products, including grain, in the United

[0:25] States. The committee is against opening

[0:27] American markets to Cuban sugar since

[0:29] that lucrative prospect could be used in

[0:32] later bargaining with Fidel Castro.

[0:34] There is no indication of when the

[0:35] Senate will vote on the committee's

[0:37] action, and the administration, which

[0:39] stayed neutral in today's vote, is not

[0:41] displeased.

[0:42] This news broke as President Carter was

[0:44] flying home from summit talks in Europe.

[0:46] David Brinkley reports from London.

[0:50] >> The economic summit, or slump summit,

[0:52] out of the way, the side trip to

[0:54] Switzerland out of the way,

[0:56] President Carter stayed over here in

[0:58] London for part of today for the NATO

[1:00] meeting

[1:01] and to discuss the defense of Europe.

[1:04] Marilyn Berger has a report on that.

[1:07] >> His last day in London, two summits, one

[1:10] on economics and energy, the other on

[1:12] Berlin, already completed. Today,

[1:14] President Carter attended his first

[1:16] meeting of NATO, perhaps the most

[1:18] colorful ceremony of all, complete with

[1:20] herald trumpets.

[1:29] British Prime Minister Callaghan

[1:30] welcomed everyone, noting a sense of

[1:33] relief that Portugal, the last

[1:34] dictatorship of Europe, had joined the

[1:36] ranks of the representative democracies.

[1:40] The 15 nations talked of growing Soviet

[1:42] strength in Eastern Europe and agreed to

[1:44] try and build up their own alliance.

[1:47] But this summit, like the others that

[1:49] preceded it, was a time of testing of

[1:51] President Carter.

[1:53] Callaghan left no doubt that he passed

[1:55] that test.

[1:57] >> I think he's been like a breath of fresh

[1:58] air

[1:59] to the to the Western world. He's

[2:01] brought a vitality

[2:03] and a sense of conviction and dedication

[2:06] and confidence. And I think he's proving

[2:08] a true leader of the Western world.

[2:11] >> President

[2:11] >> Mr. Carter, once the country boy from

[2:13] Plains, went away with a new sense of

[2:15] the role of the United States.

[2:18] >> I I have uh

[2:20] got a new appreciation for the strength

[2:23] and influence of the United States

[2:25] as observed from the view from the

[2:27] viewpoint of of other nations.

[2:31] And this is a sobering thing, but also a

[2:32] very gratifying thing.

[2:34] I think there's a much greater depth of

[2:37] friendship

[2:38] toward our nation than I had uh

[2:41] anticipated.

[2:43] And and I think that my own presidency

[2:45] and the fact that the United States has

[2:47] now come through the ordeal of of

[2:49] Watergate and Vietnam

[2:51] uh adds a renewed confidence to the

[2:53] people in in Western Europe.

[2:56] So,

[2:58] it's been a gratifying thing for me.

[3:02] >> President Carter headed home from a

[3:03] series of summits, hailed as a man who

[3:06] has infused a new spirit into a Europe

[3:08] troubled by economic and political

[3:10] problems.

[3:11] The leaders agreed to learn from the

[3:13] past, not to let their economic problems

[3:16] divide them, but to draw them together,

[3:18] and to try to strengthen their defensive

[3:20] alliance not with more money, but with

[3:22] greater efficiency.

[3:26] Marilyn Berger, NBC News, London.

[3:30] >> After about a week of summiteering here

[3:32] in London and an endless round of

[3:35] airport arrivals, receptions,

[3:38] handshakings, dinners, meetings,

[3:40] ceremonies,

[3:42] the heads of government are beginning to

[3:43] get a little tired.

[3:45] This was clear today at a meeting when

[3:47] the British Prime Minister James

[3:49] Callaghan had a little trouble reading

[3:51] what was written on the paper in front

[3:53] of him.

[3:55] We welcome today two heads of state.