World News Tonight (ABC) - 1979-06-11

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[0:03] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:07] with Barbara Walters conducting the

[0:09] first interview with the new Prime

[0:10] Minister of Canada. And from our desk in

[0:13] Washington, Frank Reynolds.

[0:15] >> Good evening. Ever since the crash of

[0:16] American Airlines Flight 191 in Chicago

[0:19] and the deaths of 275 persons, the

[0:22] Federal Aviation Administration has been

[0:24] under fire for its handling of the DCT10

[0:27] situation. Now, of course, all the

[0:29] planes have been grounded indefinitely.

[0:31] But today on Capitol Hill, members of a

[0:33] House subcommittee and representatives

[0:35] of an airlines passenger organization

[0:37] charged the FAA still doesn't really

[0:39] know what to do and that its chairman

[0:41] should be fired. Here's the story from

[0:44] Bill Zimmerman. In the manner of Daniel

[0:46] walking into the lion's den, Langghorn

[0:48] Bond went to Capitol Hill today to

[0:50] defend his actions since the Chicago

[0:52] crash, the three separate groundings of

[0:54] domestic DC10s.

[0:56] >> We acted. I think it is fair to say

[0:58] immediately upon receipt of that

[1:01] information

[1:03] as each

[1:05] layer was peeled back during this

[1:06] investigation, the FAA took action

[1:09] immediately. It is unprecedented in its

[1:12] scope and its promptness in the history

[1:14] of the United States. But all hindsight

[1:16] is 2020. Based upon what you knew now,

[1:19] did you put unsafe airplanes back into

[1:21] the sky?

[1:22] >> I don't know the answer to that. But if

[1:24] we knew what had what we know now, which

[1:26] is to have all the airplanes on the

[1:28] ground, if I knew that the day before

[1:30] the crash or the day after the crash or

[1:32] any point up to the final decision, I

[1:35] would have made that decision at that

[1:36] point. The most hostile questioning

[1:38] concerned an internal FAA memo

[1:41] describing apparent structural problems

[1:43] with the DC10. A memo dated 5 days

[1:46] before the last grounding of the plane.

[1:48] >> I can only repeat that it would be

[1:50] helpful to us if you would let us have

[1:52] this paper. We'll give it to you. It's

[1:54] your document. It would be helpful to

[1:55] the public if you'd read what your

[1:57] people send you that affects air traffic

[1:59] safety

[2:02] here.

[2:03] >> So, Bond was given a copy of his own

[2:05] agency's memo. A memo dated 4 days

[2:07] before his lawyers went to court to try

[2:09] to keep the DCT10s flying. I

[2:12] >> I want the record to indicate that that

[2:14] isn't a subcommittee document. That's an

[2:17] FAA document uh that came to the FAA

[2:21] talking about a safety pro problem after

[2:25] the crash on the 25th of May.

[2:28] >> This material was going to be designed

[2:29] >> and I'd like to compliment you on your

[2:31] preparedness.

[2:32] >> Bill Zimmerman, ABC News, Washington.

[2:35] >> During the weekend, the FAA ordered a

[2:37] new inspection of all widebody jets,

[2:40] 747s, L1011s, and the A300 Airbus.

[2:44] Inspections are already underway like

[2:46] this check of Eastern's Airbuses in

[2:48] Miami. However, the inspections will not

[2:50] cause any further disruption of air

[2:52] travel. The airlines have been given 45

[2:54] days to check out the planes. Many have

[2:56] already completed the required

[2:58] inspection.

[3:00] Late this afternoon, a DC3 twin engine

[3:02] plane carrying 12 passengers crashed in

[3:05] an area of rugged terrain about 200 m

[3:08] north of Boise, Idaho. The plane is

[3:11] leased to the US Forest Service.

[3:13] Emergency medical teams are now on the

[3:15] way to the area. So far, there have been

[3:17] no reports on casualties.

[3:20] Here in Washington, the question of who

[3:22] or what is responsible for the current

[3:24] spot shortages of gasoline across the

[3:26] country was discussed at another

[3:28] congressional hearing today. A high

[3:30] official of the Federal Trade Commission

[3:32] suggested there may be one fairly simple

[3:34] reason why the lines are long at service

[3:37] stations. Here's the story from energy

[3:39] correspondent Roger Peterson.

[3:42] >> Alfred Dohy, head of the FTC's Bureau of

[3:45] Competition, testified the oil companies

[3:47] stockpiled crude oil during the first

[3:49] quarter of this year and refined less

[3:52] gasoline than they could have. Uh it

[3:54] appears to us that there was sufficient

[3:57] crude uh in the country during the first

[4:01] quarter of n of this of this year uh to

[4:04] run refineries at a higher utilization

[4:07] rate than they ran in the first quarter.

[4:09] >> Dory said refineries had all that crude

[4:11] oil because imports were up 3 and 12% in

[4:14] the first quarter but the refineries

[4:16] were operated at 7 to 8% below capacity.

[4:20] The information that we are using so far

[4:23] is information provided by the American

[4:25] Petroleum Institute, the International

[4:27] Energy Agency, information that is

[4:29] available to the public.

[4:31] >> Well, I just don't want to.

[4:33] >> All it does is raise questions. It

[4:35] doesn't provide answers. Dy added, "The

[4:38] FTC has to rely on such figures, even

[4:40] when checking into possible antitrust

[4:42] violations, because the energy

[4:44] department has refused for more than 2

[4:46] years to give the commission information

[4:48] on individual oil companies, just

[4:50] overall industry figures." That

[4:53] infuriated committee members. Have you

[4:55] ever gone to the president to tell him

[4:57] there's a bureaucratic war going on in

[4:59] this country and people are shooting

[5:00] themselves in gasoline lines and

[5:02] somebody ought to do something about it?

[5:05] I hear

[5:06] >> this is outrageous.

[5:08] >> Dhy didn't have to answer that, but

[5:10] energy department officials will have to

[5:11] answer questions when they're grilled

[5:13] here tomorrow about why they haven't

[5:14] been more cooperative with the FTC.

[5:17] Roger Peterson, ABC News on Capitol

[5:20] Hill.

[5:21] The head of the Independent Truckers

[5:23] Association, representing about 30,000

[5:25] of the country's longhaul truckers,

[5:27] called today for a nationwide shutdown

[5:29] to protest diesel fuel shortages, high

[5:32] prices, and the 55 mph speed limit,

[5:35] among other things. There were various

[5:37] protest actions in parts of the country

[5:39] today. In Nashville, Tennessee, truckers

[5:42] staged a typical protest, slowing

[5:44] traffic on main arteries and circling

[5:46] the Tennessee State Capital. The

[5:48] protests do not involve Teamsters Union

[5:51] members or regulated trucking companies.

[5:54] Trans Alaska pipeline officials say

[5:56] there is no evidence of sabotage in that

[5:58] leak that has forced the shutdown of the

[6:00] pipeline until work crews can locate and

[6:03] repair the damage. The line normally

[6:05] carries about 1.2 million barrels of

[6:07] crude oil every day. And more bad news

[6:10] on oil prices. An authoritative Middle

[6:12] East Weekly reports that Iraq plans to

[6:15] raise its crude oil prices to more than

[6:17] $21 a barrel. Other Persian Gulf oil

[6:20] producers who now charge about $17 a

[6:23] barrel may be expected to do the same.

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[7:38] In Nicaragua today, the evacuation of

[7:40] dependents of American officials and

[7:42] other American citizens was to have

[7:44] begun, but fighting between Sandinista

[7:46] rebels and the government forces of

[7:48] Anastasio Samosa made it impossible for

[7:51] the evacuation operation to get

[7:53] underway. Here's a report from Bill

[7:55] Stewart in Monagua. The Americans waited

[7:58] here at the US embassy in Managa while

[8:00] National Guardsmen tried to clear

[8:02] Sandinista gerillas from the road

[8:03] leading to the airport. While they

[8:05] waited, they talked about the days of

[8:07] heavy firefighting in the capital city.

[8:10] >> We can't we can't do our work. We can't

[8:12] go out of the house at night. And when

[8:14] it gets to that point, there's no sense

[8:15] to be here.

[8:16] >> It's just difficult to sleep at night.

[8:18] Bombs going off, banging going on all

[8:20] over the place. And I'm just scared.

[8:23] It's dangerous. We have just tried to

[8:25] get to the airport. We couldn't get

[8:27] through.

[8:28] >> Why not?

[8:28] >> There was a shootout.

[8:30] >> But after an hour, the roads were still

[8:32] not clear and the gunfire moved closer.

[8:34] maybe 600 yd. The embassy dependants and

[8:38] other Americans hoping to evacuate moved

[8:40] inside as US officials tried to pinpoint

[8:43] the source of the gunfire. Finally, when

[8:46] the embassy learned the Pan-American

[8:47] plane, which was to evacuate the

[8:49] Americans, could not land because of the

[8:51] situation, the evacuation was postponed.

[8:54] The Americans were moved to a safer

[8:56] area, the US ambassador present

[9:00] in Managa. Meanwhile, gunfire between

[9:02] National Guardsmen and guerillas

[9:04] continued heavy and widespread.

[9:06] Guardsmen searched houses doortodoor.

[9:10] The body count is growing.

[9:13] This pregnant woman had been shot in the

[9:14] stomach. This 8-month-old baby girl had

[9:17] been hit by a bullet which came through

[9:18] a wall. X-rays show the bullet lodged in

[9:21] her skull. Doctors are deciding what to

[9:24] do.

[9:25] Meanwhile, Nicaraguan President

[9:27] Anastasia Samoza told a news conference

[9:29] this morning that ID cards recovered

[9:31] from bodies of guerillas show that some

[9:34] are panameanian fighting with arms

[9:36] supplied by Cuba. He said he will

[9:38] complain to the Organization of American

[9:40] States. Thus far, the fighting in Managa

[9:42] has been inconclusive, but the fact that

[9:44] the rebels are able to operate here,

[9:46] even this openly, suggests that this

[9:48] time Samosa could be in serious trouble.

[9:51] Bill Stewart, ABC News, Managua,

[9:53] Nicaragua.

[9:55] The Sha of Iran has now arrived in

[9:58] Mexico. His fourth port of call since

[10:01] the downfall of his regime last January.

[10:03] Here's a report from Tom Shell in

[10:05] Mexico. The plane that brought the Shaw

[10:08] to Mexico City was provided by one of

[10:10] Mexico's leading bankers, Manuel

[10:12] Espinosa Iglas. The Mexican government

[10:15] has made no official comment on the

[10:16] Shaw's visit. Private security was

[10:19] extremely tight at the Mexico City

[10:21] airport. The Shaw, his wife, and their

[10:23] 18-year-old son did not get off the twin

[10:25] engine jet until it was inside a hanger

[10:28] away from the main airport complex. The

[10:30] Shaw looked relaxed and calm as he

[10:32] stepped onto Mexican soil, the fourth

[10:34] nation he's visited since leaving Iran

[10:36] last January 19th. Bashaw and his family

[10:39] were then driven to Quavaka, 50 mi south

[10:41] of Mexico City, to stay at the home of

[10:44] the president of Mexico's Bank of

[10:46] Commerce, the same man who provided the

[10:48] airplane. The Shaw is expected to move

[10:50] to Aapokco where his sister is

[10:52] refurbishing a home she leased two

[10:54] months ago. Tom Shell, ABC News, Mexico.

[10:59] Former Secretary of State Henry

[11:00] Kissinger personally intervened with the

[11:02] government of Mexico to help arrange for

[11:04] the Sha's visit there. And the State

[11:06] Department says it provided assistance

[11:08] in communications between the Mexicans

[11:11] and the Sha.

[11:13] Israel and Egypt opened a second round

[11:15] of talks on Palestinian autonomy today

[11:17] in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. As

[11:19] the talks began, the Israeli delegate

[11:22] said he objected to Egyptian press

[11:23] criticism of Prime Minister Bean for

[11:26] establishing that latest new settlement

[11:27] on the occupied West Bank. And in Tel

[11:30] Aviv, Bean himself issued a statement

[11:32] rejecting criticism of the settlement's

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[12:50] covered wagon. When I got into auto

[12:53] mechanics, I just realized I was

[12:55] pioneering a field that not too many

[12:57] women were in.

[12:59] >> Anne Duncan, visiting service

[13:00] instructor. This is who we are and what

[13:03] we do at General Motors.

[13:04] >> Most of my towns that I go to are really

[13:07] small. I'll get into a dealership and

[13:10] then I'll work with each mechanic and

[13:13] ask them what their problems are and if

[13:15] they do have problems, um, I try to help

[13:18] them out. We're working all the time to

[13:21] improve the service departments, you

[13:23] know, all the way across the United

[13:24] States.

[13:26] General Motors has established this

[13:28] training program so that we can train

[13:30] the mechanics in the dealerships where

[13:32] they're working to help them do a better

[13:35] job for the customer.

[13:37] And I really enjoy it. I love it.

[13:40] >> General Motors, people building

[13:42] transportation to serve people.

[13:46] >> The Supreme Court handed what may be a

[13:48] major legal setback to handicapped

[13:51] Americans today. The court ruled that

[13:53] educational institutions are not

[13:55] required to make significant changes in

[13:57] their programs to accommodate the

[13:59] handicapped. Tim O'Brien has the

[14:01] details.

[14:02] >> I put my handicap where it belongs. It's

[14:05] in my ears. It's not in my mind.

[14:08] >> But because Francis Davis is hard of

[14:10] hearing, she was denied admission to

[14:12] nursing school.

[14:13] >> The start of people to death is somebody

[14:15] that had a hearing problem wanting to be

[14:18] a nurse. Never heard of it. School

[14:21] officials at Southeastern Community

[14:23] College reasoned that poor hearing would

[14:25] keep her from performing safely in both

[14:27] the nursing program and the profession.

[14:30] Mrs. Davis took the college to court,

[14:32] relying on a 1973 federal law which

[14:35] prohibits federally financed

[14:37] institutions from discriminating against

[14:39] otherwise qualified handicapped people.

[14:42] But today, the court interpreted that

[14:44] law in favor of the college. Justice

[14:46] Lewis Powell, writing for a unanimous

[14:48] court, rejected Mrs. Davis's argument

[14:50] that her handicap should not be

[14:52] considered. And Powell concluded that

[14:54] colleges are not obligated to lower

[14:57] standards or make major modifications

[14:59] just to accommodate the handicapped. The

[15:02] justices interpreted the law narrowly,

[15:04] concluding that it does not require a

[15:05] school to consider an applicant without

[15:07] regard to her handicap. Rather, it

[15:09] requires the applicant to prove she's

[15:11] qualified despite the handicap. A

[15:14] setback for the handicap. The ruling is

[15:15] also a rebuff to the Carter

[15:17] administration which had urged the court

[15:19] to go the other way. Tim O'Brien, ABC

[15:22] News, at the Supreme Court. In other

[15:24] actions today, the court ruled that

[15:26] individual consumers may sue businesses

[15:29] suspected of fixing prices in violation

[15:31] of antitrust laws. And the court upheld

[15:34] a lower court ruling that the national

[15:36] motto in God we trust and its use on

[15:39] American currency does not violate the

[15:41] constitutional separation of church and

[15:43] state.

[15:46] In Florida today, Theodore Robert Bundy

[15:48] went on trial for murder. He is charged

[15:50] with killing two female students at

[15:52] Florida State University, but police and

[15:55] prosecutors say he is also a suspect in

[15:57] the deaths and disappearances of many

[15:59] other young women. Here's more from

[16:01] Rebecca Chase. Ted Bundy entered the

[16:04] courtroom looking more like the lawyer

[16:05] he once aspired to become than the man

[16:08] on trial for murder here today. The

[16:10] 32-year-old University of Washington

[16:12] graduate and former law student is

[16:14] suspected in the murder or disappearance

[16:16] of at least 21 women in four states.

[16:19] Those whose bodies have been found were

[16:21] sexually molested and severely beaten.

[16:24] Early last year at this Florida State

[16:26] University sorority house, five co-eds

[16:29] were brutally attacked. Margaret Bowman

[16:31] and Lisa Levy were found dead. Ted

[16:34] Bundy, who was living at this nearby

[16:36] boarding house, was charged with the

[16:37] murders. In court today, the judge was

[16:40] asked to decide if Ted Bundy is mentally

[16:42] competent to stand trial.

[16:45] >> I do think that he has a a an excellent

[16:49] grasp of the proceedings that is

[16:51] intellectually he certainly is

[16:54] exceedingly well informed.

[16:56] >> I find the defendant confident stand

[16:58] trial and we're ready to proceed.

[17:00] >> Then Bundy himself made a motion to

[17:02] dismiss his courtappointed attorney.

[17:05] It's my position that my council one

[17:08] believe that I am guilty, two that they

[17:11] have told me they see no way of

[17:13] presenting effective defense and in no

[17:15] uncertain terms they have told me that

[17:17] and three that they see no way of

[17:19] avoiding a conviction.

[17:21] >> I'm going to deny the motion to

[17:23] substitute counsel.

[17:24] >> Ted Bundy has also asked the court to

[17:27] move the trial to another city. The

[17:29] judge has taken that motion under

[17:30] adisement, but he plans to go ahead with

[17:33] jury selection here tomorrow. Rebecca

[17:36] Chase, ABC News, Tallahassee, Florida.

[17:41] Last Saturday afternoon, a lot of people

[17:43] lost a lot of money when Spectacular Bid

[17:45] failed to win the Belmont Stakes and the

[17:48] third leg of Racing's Triple Comm. Well,

[17:50] now it turns out there was and is

[17:52] something wrong with the horses leg.

[17:54] Here's a report from James Walker. With

[17:56] victories in the Kentucky Derby and the

[17:58] Preenness behind him, just about all

[18:00] racing fans expected spectacular bid to

[18:02] win the Belmont and the 1979 Triple

[18:05] Crown. The fans were so convinced that

[18:07] they bet some $700,000 that the bid

[18:10] would be first across the line. Instead,

[18:12] he finished third. Suddenly, everyone

[18:15] was asking what went wrong. Yesterday,

[18:17] the bid's trainer, Buddy Delp, revealed

[18:19] that before the Belmont, the horse had

[18:21] jammed a safety pin into his left front

[18:23] hook. Delp said he removed it. But why

[18:25] did he let the horse run?

[18:27] >> I got back out there about 3:30. I moved

[18:29] him around good and looked at him good

[18:30] and he was he was okay. So we decided I

[18:34] decided to go on running because um it

[18:36] was the third leg of the triple crown

[18:38] and bell my stakes and no way I was

[18:40] going to win it if I didn't run him.

[18:42] >> Tonight spectacular bids owner Tom

[18:45] Meerhoff said the bid has a temperature

[18:46] of 101 and is receiving antibiotics.

[18:50] James Walker, ABC News.

[18:53] Some racing fans are also raising the

[18:55] ethical question about whether

[18:56] Spectacular Bids injury should have been

[18:58] made public before the race.

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[19:45] >> He has held the record for the highest

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[20:00] I think this is an example of California

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[21:10] Last week, the new prime minister of

[21:12] Canada was officially sworn in. His

[21:14] name, Joe Clark. Clark, it is said,

[21:17] faces the most difficult challenge to

[21:18] confront its country in its 112 years.

[21:22] But the province of Quebec is

[21:23] threatening separation, and Clark must

[21:25] find the solution. Barely 40, Clark is

[21:28] the youngest and probably least known

[21:29] leader Canada has ever had. But he

[21:32] defeated that country's dynamic and

[21:34] longest governing prime minister, Pierre

[21:36] Elliot Trudeau. Who is this new prime

[21:38] minister and what are his views? To find

[21:40] out, we went last week to Ottawa for

[21:42] this. Joe Clark's first interview since

[21:44] becoming prime minister.

[21:46] >> Mr. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was a

[21:49] charismatic leader to say the least. How

[21:51] did you beat him?

[21:53] >> I suppose he beat himself. I think that

[21:55] after 11 years, attitudes grew up

[21:57] against governments. Uh we put together

[21:59] a very strong group of candidates across

[22:01] the country and were able to marry that

[22:03] with a a sense that it was time for a

[22:05] change in the country. So, you think

[22:07] it's not so much that you won, but that

[22:09] he lost?

[22:10] >> I think that's probably uh generally the

[22:12] the view in Canada, and it's one that

[22:14] that I share. I think it was time for a

[22:16] change in Canada. My promise was that uh

[22:18] I wouldn't solve the people's problems

[22:20] for them, that I was going to have to

[22:22] count on their cooperation throughout

[22:24] the long piece to uh to solve them

[22:26] together.

[22:27] >> Do you think that Margaret Trudeau was

[22:29] in any way responsible for her husband's

[22:30] defeat?

[22:31] >> Oh, it might have lodged in the back of

[22:33] people's minds and been a factor. Uh but

[22:35] it really was uh referred to very rarely

[22:38] uh almost not at all in the election

[22:39] campaign.

[22:41] >> Mr. Prime Minister, you face a very

[22:42] difficult situation, a divided Canada.

[22:45] If Quebec does want to secede at one

[22:47] point or another, what can you do?

[22:50] >> Well, I think that what we have to turn

[22:52] our attention to is ensuring that Quebec

[22:54] does not take that decision. And I'm

[22:56] personally persuaded that it can happen.

[22:58] Uh, I think that probably there are

[23:00] going to be accommodations that I can uh

[23:02] achieve within the country that might

[23:04] not have been possible for a French

[23:06] Canadian prime minister.

[23:07] >> Mr. Prime Minister, that sounds rather

[23:08] like what was said about Richard Nixon,

[23:10] that he was able to open the doors to

[23:12] China because he was a Republican and

[23:14] not a Democrat and a liberal. You're

[23:16] saying because you're English speaking,

[23:18] you can do more than Pierre Trudeau, who

[23:20] was from Quebec, could do

[23:21] >> at this stage because of the things that

[23:23] he did when he was a prime minister who

[23:25] came from Quebec. One of the great

[23:27] things that's happened in Quebec in the

[23:28] last 10 years is that there is a

[23:30] tremendous self-confidence. One

[23:32] expression is separatism, but the other

[23:34] expression that is as strong, probably

[23:36] stronger, is a determination to take

[23:38] part and to play a role in in the whole

[23:40] large country, Canada. Uh there's been a

[23:42] sense that the door was closed to that

[23:44] kind of participation. And I think that

[23:46] if I can show as an English-speaking

[23:47] prime minister uh sympathetic to Quebec

[23:50] that the door of the rest of the country

[23:52] is open to Quebecers, they'll choose a

[23:54] large country rather than a small one.

[23:55] That's what I think is is is going to

[23:57] happen in the next few years.

[23:59] >> What if Quebec decided it was going to

[24:01] secede? What would you do? Would you

[24:03] send troops?

[24:04] >> Oh, of course not. You don't if you

[24:06] can't keep a country together by the by

[24:08] the force of argument. You uh you don't

[24:09] use the force of arms. But you see,

[24:11] you're asking a what if question. and uh

[24:13] I'm saying the if won't happen.

[24:15] >> On other subjects, Mr. Clark said he

[24:17] will increase Canada's commitment to

[24:19] NATO, but can't say yet by how much.

[24:21] Would sell oil to the US, but only after

[24:24] Canada's own needs were met, and that is

[24:26] not quote today. Will move the Canadian

[24:29] embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to

[24:31] Jerusalem in spite of Arab and possibly

[24:33] US anger. But he set no date, saying it

[24:36] would be within his 4-year term of

[24:38] governing. Mr. Mr. Prime Minister, you

[24:41] know, of course, that you're usually

[24:42] described as uh awkward, bland,

[24:45] nondescript. Do these descriptions

[24:48] bother you? Uh I'm a professional

[24:50] politician. I say that without making

[24:52] any any apologies. Uh my skills are in

[24:55] making a system work and in bringing

[24:57] people together. I think I came as a

[24:59] politician with healing capacities at a

[25:02] time when the nation very much needed

[25:03] that. But do you mind when people

[25:07] describe you as so awkward, as without

[25:09] personality? I'm embarrassed to ask you

[25:11] these questions, but you know, it's said

[25:12] again and again about you.

[25:13] >> Sure, I'd prefer that they uh that they

[25:15] were more accurate, but um uh I can't I

[25:18] can't correct that. No, it rides off

[25:20] your back after a while, does it?

[25:21] >> Uh it rides off your back considerably

[25:23] more easier after you've just won an

[25:24] election than it did during the

[25:26] campaign.

[25:28] >> How does the US view Joe Clark? The

[25:30] State Department says it expects no

[25:32] significant change in US Canada

[25:34] relations. Will Jimmy Carter feel the

[25:37] same personal raor with Clark as he did

[25:39] with Trudeau? We'll find out later this

[25:41] month when at the Tokyo Summit, it will

[25:44] be Jimmy meet Joe as Carter and Clark

[25:47] size each other up for the first time.

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[26:59] >> Finally tonight, we note the passing of

[27:01] Russell Jones, whose last assignment in

[27:03] journalism was as chief of the ABC News

[27:06] bureau in Moscow. He retired 3 years

[27:08] ago, went to live in Vienna where he

[27:10] died on Saturday. One of the more

[27:12] valuable traits in any journalist is the

[27:14] ability to keep cool under pressure.

[27:17] Russell Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for

[27:19] his reporting under pressure and in

[27:22] personal danger during the Hungarian

[27:24] uprising in 1945 56 as a correspondent

[27:27] then with the United Press. He was for a

[27:29] time almost the only source of

[27:31] information to the rest of the world

[27:33] about the revolt and the brutal Russian

[27:35] suppression of it. He was a brave man, a

[27:38] very solid and responsible reporter and

[27:41] a good friend.

[27:43] That's our report on World News Tonight

[27:45] for ABC News. Good night

[27:51] from ABC. This has been World News

[27:54] Tonight.

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[28:31] This week on ABC's Monday Night

[28:32] Baseball, hot socks, fills, thrills, and

[28:35] more. The Red Hot Red Sox take on the

[28:37] Royals. And the surprising Houston

[28:39] Astros battle Pete Rose and the

[28:41] Philadelphia Phillies. Check local

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[28:50] The local news is presented at 6:00 on

[28:52] News Watch here on Channel 2. In the

[28:55] news today, truck drivers and their fuel

[28:57] problems are in the headlines, and we

[28:59] plan a full report on their activities

[29:00] in the Nashville area, as well as

[29:03] reaction from local police. There was a

[29:05] truck blockade, a truck parade, and it

[29:08] all relates to the price to be paid for

[29:10] fuel. We'll have all this for you, plus

[29:13] sports and weather information on News

[29:14] Watch, the 6:00 news here on Channel 2.

[29:20] >> Hey, Chuck. What's up?

[29:21] >> Big date with Wendy tonight.

[29:23] >> Where's the close-up toothpaste?

[29:25] >> Don't carry it anymore.

[29:26] >> What? No closeup. No white teeth. No

[29:29] fresh pill. No Wendy.