NBC Nightly News open - 1979-07-09

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[0:00] WSMTV Nashville.

[0:05] >> This is NBC Nightly News with David

[0:08] Brinkley, who's on vacation, and John

[0:10] Hart substituting for John Chancellor,

[0:12] who's on special assignment.

[0:15] Good evening. Saudi Arabia is increasing

[0:17] its oil production by 1 million barrels

[0:20] a day, an increase of more than 10% over

[0:23] the next 3 months. President Carter

[0:26] saying he has the personal commitment of

[0:28] Crown Prince Faud of Saudi Arabia.

[0:30] Carter saying that while this helps for

[0:32] the short term, it does not relieve the

[0:34] necessity for firm action to cut down

[0:37] dependence on imported oil. Details from

[0:39] John Dancy at the White House.

[0:43] President Carter revealed the Saudi

[0:44] offer to House and Summit members who

[0:46] met with him at Camp David this morning.

[0:49] The White House said the Saudis will

[0:50] begin increasing production without

[0:52] undue delay. Some sources say it's

[0:54] already underway. NBC News has learned

[0:57] that Ambassador John West, who returned

[0:59] to Riad June 7th after talks with

[1:01] President Carter, carried a personal

[1:03] request for Mr. Carter to Prince FOD to

[1:05] increase production, but without setting

[1:07] a specific figure. The answer, yes, was

[1:10] given to roving ambassador Robert

[1:12] Strauss, who returned to Washington from

[1:13] the Middle East last night. I asked him

[1:16] today if the US had to give up anything

[1:18] in return. It in no way had any quid

[1:21] proquo and it didn't relate in any way

[1:23] uh to anything else going on politically

[1:25] in the Middle East. I'm telling you they

[1:26] did not ask us for anything. Keep in

[1:29] mind this is a limited amount of war for

[1:30] a limited amount of time and it will do

[1:32] a limited amount of good. But it's but

[1:34] it's a help. It's very positive.

[1:37] >> Mr. Carter spent much of his time today

[1:38] talking to his congressional visitors

[1:40] about a new program for synthetic fuels

[1:43] and the need for him to have standby

[1:45] authority to ration gasoline. Congress

[1:47] is reported more ready now than in the

[1:49] spring to give him that authority.

[1:52] >> Senator Henry Jackson was one of those

[1:54] who saw the president this morning. I

[1:56] believe he will come in with a strong

[1:59] proposal. This is sort of D-Day for the

[2:01] president and the option that he's now

[2:06] going to exercise will not come again.

[2:09] With meetings still going on at Camp

[2:11] David, the White House late today put

[2:12] out a statement saying the president is

[2:14] pleased with the significant amount of

[2:16] developing consensus about the steps we

[2:19] must take to deal with the crisis, but

[2:21] still no concrete word on what those

[2:23] steps are. John Dansy, NBC News, the

[2:26] White House. A prominent American who

[2:29] has not been invited to Camp David is

[2:31] Senator Edward Kennedy. And he was asked

[2:33] about that today in Boston where he was

[2:35] visiting the John Kennedy Library and he

[2:38] made a joke of it.

[2:41] >> Now the question is, have I been invited

[2:43] to Camp David? No.

[2:46] >> No, I have not been invited to camp.

[2:49] >> If you were, what advice would you give

[2:51] on the energy situation?

[2:53] >> Isn't this a wonderful bill?

[2:56] Then Kennedy went ahead and gave out

[2:57] some advice anyway, criticizing the

[3:00] Carter administration for not coming to

[3:02] grips, as he said, with the energy

[3:03] crisis and predicting a desperate winter

[3:06] for New England.

[3:07] >> Unless the refineries of this country

[3:09] are going to be mandated to produce more

[3:11] distillate,

[3:13] which will mean greater availability and

[3:15] accessibility of home heating oil as

[3:17] well as diesel oil for the crops of uh

[3:20] of uh of next year. uh we are going to

[3:24] see some of the the most desperate kinds

[3:27] of of uh human conditions that we have

[3:29] seen in our in our state and in our

[3:31] region uh for uh any period of of

[3:36] certainly of of of my lifetime going

[3:38] back I suppose to the times uh of the

[3:40] depression

[3:41] >> oil production at the world's largest

[3:43] refinery at Abadan Iran was cut by 80%

[3:47] over the weekend when two pipelines

[3:49] feeding oil to the refinery blew

[3:52] No one has said for sure what the

[3:54] explosions were.