NBC Nightly News - 1982-06-27

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[0:00] News

[0:01] >> reporting from New York, John Hart.

[0:05] >> Good evening. Israel today called for

[0:07] West Beirut to be emptied, advising

[0:09] civilians to leave and save their lives

[0:12] and the PLO to drop their guns and go to

[0:14] Syria under escort by the Red Cross.

[0:16] Israel promises to continue honoring the

[0:19] ceasefire unless fired upon. Journalists

[0:22] in the mountains east of Beirut say they

[0:24] saw more than 300 Israeli troop carriers

[0:26] and ammunition trucks moving into the

[0:28] towns of Ali and Bamdun. Significant

[0:31] reinforcements brought up to the key

[0:33] towns on the Beirut to Damascus road.

[0:36] Our reports tonight begin with Steve

[0:37] Mallalerie in Beirut.

[0:40] >> Israeli planes showered West Beirut with

[0:43] leaflets. People ran through the streets

[0:45] to grab a copy. Some gathered in groups

[0:48] to read the Israeli warning. The message

[0:51] written in Arabic was brief. The

[0:53] Israelis said they hadn't used the full

[0:55] force of their army so far. That they

[0:57] didn't want to hurt civilians, but that

[1:00] civilians should use the presidency's

[1:01] fire to leave Beirut while they still

[1:03] had the chance. The streets leading out

[1:06] of the capital were jammed with hundreds

[1:08] of cars.

[1:09] Earlier, Palestinian guerillas used the

[1:12] ceasefire this morning to clean up their

[1:13] neighborhoods. The sound of machine gun

[1:16] fire in the background is not uncommon

[1:17] here. Maybe it's target practice.

[1:21] Families use the lull to do some

[1:22] shopping. A few stores have reopened.

[1:26] A Palestinian fighter with his family,

[1:28] seemingly dazed by the weeks of

[1:30] bombardments.

[1:32] Others took the opportunity to pack up

[1:34] and leave their homes, fearing more

[1:36] Israeli attacks.

[1:38] But there are those who have no place to

[1:40] go. This Palestinian hospital was hit by

[1:43] Israeli artillery and gunboat fire. It's

[1:46] a hospital for the handicapped and the

[1:48] elderly. All the doctors have fled. A

[1:52] few nurses remain. There's no food,

[1:55] water, or electricity here. No hope.

[2:00] The search for a peaceful solution to

[2:02] the crisis continues. The PLO and the

[2:05] United States have agreed in principle

[2:07] for the Palestinians to lay down their

[2:09] weapons and leave Lebanon. But the

[2:11] Palestinians want to leave with some

[2:13] honor. They are not going to throw down

[2:15] their weapons and raise their hands and

[2:16] surrender, leaving demoralized and

[2:18] defeated. They want the Israelis to

[2:20] withdraw from the Lebanese capital a few

[2:22] miles. Then the Palestinians will hand

[2:24] over their weapons to the Lebanese army

[2:26] or to an international observer force

[2:28] and leave. The United States has agreed.

[2:31] The Israelis so far have rejected the

[2:33] compromise. Steve Mallalerie, NBC News,

[2:36] Beirut.

[2:40] Just south of Beirut today, a long

[2:42] Israeli convoy carried artillery shells

[2:45] toward the city. Preparation for a

[2:47] possible invasion continued. But in

[2:49] Jerusalem, the threats suddenly stopped.

[2:52] The lead story in Prime Minister Bean's

[2:54] newspaper reflected the new tone. It

[2:56] said the cabinet wants heavy pressure on

[2:58] Beirut, but a military timeout for

[3:01] negotiations. Late today, Defense

[3:03] Minister Ariel Chiron told NBC News he

[3:06] wants a peaceful settlement and believes

[3:08] Israel is positioned to get one. the way

[3:11] that uh

[3:13] we are deployed now,

[3:17] keeping in our hands

[3:19] the most important strategic

[3:22] area in Lebanon that along the road

[3:25] between Beirut and Damascus

[3:28] and the fact that the terrorist are

[3:31] encircled in western Beirut that gives

[3:35] us more chances

[3:37] to solve this problem in in a peaceful

[3:40] mean.

[3:41] >> An Israeli general also reflected the

[3:43] new tone at a news conference.

[3:46] >> From the military angle,

[3:49] the most important objectives have been

[3:52] achieved.

[3:54] And I think the ball really passes now

[3:56] into the hands of the political level.

[3:59] >> But for Israel's cabinet, which met

[4:01] today, political level means PLO

[4:04] surrender with guaranteed safe conduct

[4:06] out of Lebanon.

[4:08] The government of Israel recommends that

[4:10] the Libanese army enter West Beirut.

[4:13] All the 15 terrorist organizations of

[4:16] which the roof organization called the

[4:18] PLO is comprised will hand over their

[4:20] weapons to the Lebanese army.

[4:23] All members of the above mentioned

[4:25] terrorist organizations without any

[4:27] exception will leave Beirut and Lebanon.

[4:31] >> At least three things remain uncertain.

[4:33] whether the PLO will agree, if not,

[4:36] whether Israel will compromise, and

[4:38] whether Israeli troops will invade

[4:40] Beirut if the Beagan government doesn't

[4:42] get what it wants. Bob Kerr, NBC News in

[4:45] Tel Aviv.

[4:47] An Israeli general confirmed today that

[4:50] Israel has dropped cluster bombs in

[4:52] Lebanon. These are Americanmade bombs

[4:54] which explode and scatter into many

[4:56] smaller bomblelets which then explode

[4:58] into thousands of shredding pieces of

[5:00] metal and do no real damage except to

[5:03] people. They were supplied to Israel

[5:05] with the understanding they'd be used

[5:06] only in defense. Palestinians claim the

[5:09] cluster bombs have been used against

[5:11] civilians in Lebanon. The Israeli

[5:13] general said today, "No, they've been

[5:15] used only against organized resistance."

[5:19] The PLO has demanded economic sanctions

[5:21] by Arab countries against the United

[5:23] States for supporting Israel. Arab

[5:25] foreign ministers had a meeting in

[5:26] Tunisia today, but finished without any

[5:29] recommendations on what to do about the

[5:31] war in Lebanon. An analysis of the

[5:33] meeting and of Arab disunityity over the

[5:35] Lebanon crisis. Now, from Paul Miller in

[5:38] London, Arab foreign ministers met 3

[5:40] weeks after the Israeli invasion of

[5:41] Lebanon, but failed to agree on what to

[5:44] do about the invasion. The Palestine

[5:46] Liberation Organization had pleaded for

[5:48] an oil embargo and economic sanctions

[5:50] against the United States to force

[5:52] Israel out of Lebanon.

[5:55] Many Palestinians fighting the Israelis

[5:57] in Beirut feel betrayed by the Arab

[5:59] countries who have talked about Arab

[6:01] unity but done little. The Syrians

[6:04] fought the Israelis but agreed to a

[6:06] separate ceasefire once they could say

[6:07] they had come to the aid of the PLO. The

[6:10] other two major Arab armies stayed out

[6:12] of the fight. Iraq could not fight the

[6:14] Israelis because of its war with Iran.

[6:17] Egypt would not fight because it is

[6:19] committed to peace with Israel.

[6:23] >> A few Egyptians have publicly protested

[6:25] the invasion and American support for

[6:27] Israel, but their government has

[6:29] concentrated on diplomatic moves to get

[6:31] the United States to put pressure on

[6:33] Israel.

[6:34] Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud has

[6:36] demanded United States pressure. But

[6:38] Saud is also worried about the threat to

[6:40] his country from revolutionary Iran and

[6:43] has tried to work with the United States

[6:45] for a diplomatic solution in Lebanon.

[6:47] Some Palestinians believe the

[6:49] conservative Arab countries are actually

[6:51] happy to see the radical PLO take a

[6:53] beating. Today's failure of the Arab

[6:55] ministers to even agree on when to hold

[6:57] a full summit on the Israeli invasion

[6:59] will do little to change that opinion.

[7:02] Paul Miller, NBC News, London.

[7:05] >> There is a report today that Saudi

[7:07] Arabia has threatened an oil embargo

[7:09] against the United States while trying

[7:11] to work out a peace plan for Lebanon.

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[8:20] >> Sunday Times of London reported today

[8:22] that King Faud of Saudi Arabia trying to

[8:25] arrange peace in Lebanon last week, ran

[8:27] into cross signals in Washington, made

[8:30] massive economic threats against the

[8:32] United States, and played a part in the

[8:34] resignation of Alexander Heg as

[8:36] Secretary of State. The London Times

[8:38] says three-way negotiations between King

[8:41] Fod, Yaser Arafat, and US National

[8:44] Security Adviser William Clark include

[8:46] an agreement by Israel to pull back to a

[8:48] ceasefire line 3 miles outside the

[8:51] Beirut city limits. The newspaper says

[8:53] he was giving instructions the pullback

[8:56] had to be stalled. So, King Fraud

[8:58] threatened an oil embargo against the

[9:00] United States and withdrawal of huge

[9:03] amounts of Saudi money from American

[9:05] banks. The Israelis were shelling West

[9:08] Beirut when Heg resigned. And within an

[9:10] hour, the London Times points out there

[9:12] was a ceasefire

[9:14] in Beirut today. Arafat seemed to agree

[9:17] with that Times report, saying to the

[9:19] UPI, "The whole war was controlled by

[9:22] Hague." Arafat adding, "America's going

[9:25] to pay a lot in the very near future."

[9:28] In Washington, NBC diplomatic

[9:30] correspondent Marvin Calb looks at the

[9:32] situation now that Hey has resigned, but

[9:34] not yet left. And George Schultz has

[9:36] been appointed but not yet taken over.

[9:40] >> George Schultz, still observing his vow

[9:42] of silence, spent a busy Sunday learning

[9:44] some of the complexities and problems of

[9:46] American diplomacy in the midst of the

[9:47] Middle East crisis. He drove through

[9:50] nearly empty Washington streets for a

[9:52] lunch with Vice President Bush, who

[9:54] played a key role in the Hague

[9:55] resignation. Then Schultz left for the

[9:58] State Department for an initial

[10:00] three-hour session with the man he's

[10:01] displacing. Heg and other officials are

[10:04] extremely preoccupied with Lebanon,

[10:07] specifically with the concern that the

[10:08] PLO, happy about Heg's departure, may

[10:11] now be less willing to accept a deal on

[10:13] Beirut, which makes it more likely that

[10:16] the Israelis seeking to avoid a war of

[10:18] attrition will attack Palestinian

[10:20] positions in Beirut.

[10:22] But hey, having resigned, is now a lame

[10:25] duck with only limited influence. His

[10:27] successor, Schultz, may not actually be

[10:29] confirmed by the Senate until mid July.

[10:32] That leaves the United States highly

[10:33] vulnerable without a real secretary of

[10:35] state at the most critical moment of the

[10:37] M East crisis. Because on top of

[10:40] everything else, one official

[10:41] acknowledged here today, Saudi Arabia

[10:43] has now begun to warn the United States

[10:45] about a possible oil embargo unless the

[10:48] administration forces Israel to withdraw

[10:50] from Beirut and then Lebanon. One

[10:53] problem is the US wants Syria to

[10:55] withdraw also and the PLO to be

[10:58] disarmed. From here, the situation in

[11:00] Lebanon looks very grim. The options for

[11:03] the US very limited. Marvin Calb, NBC

[11:06] News, the State Department. William

[11:09] Clark, the president's friend and

[11:10] national security adviser, is a central

[11:13] figure in the change over from Heg to

[11:15] Schultz. White House correspondent

[11:17] Andrea Mitchell, has been looking at his

[11:18] role in Heg's departure.

[11:21] But we must.

[11:22] >> William Clark, unlike Alexander Heg, has

[11:24] a lot in common with Ronald Reagan. Not

[11:27] just his western roots, but also his

[11:29] easygoing manner.

[11:31] >> Heg, a man of the military, cared about

[11:33] ceremony position. Whether leaving to

[11:36] ride horses with the president and the

[11:37] king of Morocco, or making sure the new

[11:40] secretary of state didn't talk to

[11:41] reporters before seeing the president,

[11:43] Clark is much quieter in style. At the

[11:46] State Department, they said he didn't

[11:48] know much about foreign policy, but

[11:50] could help explain Al Heg to the White

[11:52] House. Replacing Richard Allen last

[11:54] January, it was thought he would be

[11:56] Heg's ambassador to White House aids.

[11:58] But above all, Clark is loyal to Ronald

[12:00] Reagan.

[12:01] >> I now must view the area of um national

[12:04] security from a presidential perspective

[12:07] rather than uh from the State Department

[12:10] perspective.

[12:11] >> Last Wednesday, Ed Me denied that Clark

[12:13] is in charge. I don't think Bill Clark

[12:15] has ever tried to formulate the foreign

[12:17] policy if he

[12:17] >> but me didn't know that he was about to

[12:19] resign or that Clark having decided that

[12:22] hey he was hurting Ronald Reagan had

[12:24] told him to go see the president that

[12:26] led to he's resignation offer partly

[12:29] because of Clark's advice the president

[12:31] accepted it. Other White House aids say

[12:34] Clark is effective because he always

[12:35] asks how does this relate to Ronald

[12:38] Reagan. Senior aids Misan Dver used to

[12:41] work for Clark and still defer to him

[12:43] and he has the ear of the president.

[12:46] Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, the White

[12:48] House.

[12:50] In Moscow today, the Communist Party

[12:52] newspaper said President Reagan used

[12:54] Secretary of State Heg as a scapegoat

[12:56] for the failure of his government. Prova

[12:59] saying no changes in the American

[13:01] administration can help the dangerous

[13:04] character and inconsistency of US

[13:06] foreign policy.

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[14:48] ocean, float, and be picked up. They

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[15:05] workmen patched up the 400 tiles which

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[15:09] afternoon. As astronauts Thomas

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[15:22] first perfect launch of the shuttle.

[15:24] >> T-minus 10 9 8 7 6. We have main engine

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[15:37] America's first shuttle on its third

[15:39] mission. And we observe the tower.

[15:49] Houston now controlling mission control

[15:50] confirms all maneuver started.

[15:54] 20 seconds left. Looks good.

[16:00] 26 seconds. Roll maneuver completed.

[16:04] Colombian now 21 nautical miles

[16:05] altitude. 21 nautical miles down range.

[16:08] 2 minutes 3 seconds. Standing by for

[16:10] solid rocket booster separation.

[16:12] >> PC50.

[16:14] >> After the launch, one hitch. The solid

[16:16] rocket boosters separated normally, but

[16:18] they're supposed to be reusable. And

[16:20] when they fell in the ocean, they

[16:21] apparently sank and NASA could not

[16:23] recover them. The Colombia is now

[16:25] orbiting 130 mi above the Earth. The

[16:28] astronauts have a busy day until they go

[16:30] to sleep at 8:30 tonight, Eastern time.

[16:32] The landing is scheduled for next

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[16:36] Base in California. Over the next week,

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[16:41] mission. That's partly because the

[16:43] flight doesn't pass over the TV

[16:44] receiving stations as often, but also

[16:46] because NASA has to be careful not to

[16:48] send back any pictures of the secret

[16:50] military cargo on board. Robert Bazelle,

[16:54] NBC News at the Kennedy Space Center.

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[18:32] basting President Reagan at their

[18:34] midterm convention in Philadelphia and

[18:36] finished today, as Ken Bod reports,

[18:38] having cheered themselves up

[18:40] considerably.

[18:41] >> Are the working men and women of America

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[19:00] >> I had my disagreements with the last

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[19:05] of human rights, Ronald Reagan is wrong

[19:08] and Jimmy Carter was right.

[19:15] There was more than the usual amount of

[19:17] democratic unity in Philadelphia. These

[19:20] midterm conventions have become the

[19:21] first official testings of the

[19:23] presidential waters. Look back at the

[19:26] first one, Kansas City 1974. The

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[19:35] Hubert Humphrey maybe, and good old will

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[19:41] Four years later, Memphis. The Democrats

[19:43] served notice on Jimmy Carter that his

[19:45] presidency was in trouble. Listen to

[19:48] correspondent Doug Kiker.

[19:49] >> Outgoing Pennsylvania Governor Milton

[19:51] Shap warned that Carter administration

[19:53] domestic policy could lead to a

[19:55] Republican landslide in 1980.

[19:58] >> This year, none of the presidential

[19:59] prospects missed the reception given by

[20:02] the Iowa delegation.

[20:04] >> Yes, good to see you.

[20:07] >> Yeah, I know.

[20:10] I see.

[20:11] They met each other coming and going.

[20:13] How are you? Good to see you.

[20:15] >> Iowa is still the first caucus state.

[20:18] And the Iowa caucuses are only a year

[20:20] and a half away.

[20:22] >> So, it went just as the Democrats hoped

[20:24] it would in Philadelphia. No bickering

[20:26] amongst themselves. The only target was

[20:27] Ronald Reagan. Ken Bod, NBC News,

[20:30] Philadelphia.

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[20:58] Medicare subscribers will pay more. The

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[22:35] >> The Black Forest, where Porsches stretch

[22:38] out and run. What's a Mazda RX7 doing

[22:41] here? Making a point about outstanding

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[22:46] the RX7 offers the performance, economy,

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[22:56] more you look at some of the finest

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[23:00] like the 1982 Mazda RX7.

[23:05] >> When the shuttle went into space today,

[23:06] it was the first time we knew of that

[23:08] the Pentagon had a classified package

[23:10] aboard. There has been increasing talk

[23:12] lately about an arms race in space. And

[23:15] that is Robert Abernathy's report.

[23:17] >> Space is not yet a real battleground,

[23:20] but there's no doubt of its growing

[23:22] military importance.

[23:24] >> And liftoff. liftoff of America's.

[23:26] >> Today's shuttle carries a military

[23:28] payload. The Air Force will soon be

[23:30] launching its own shuttles. And this

[23:32] past week, the Air Force announced

[23:34] creation of a Space Command.

[23:37] The message is that space isn't just for

[23:39] research anymore. It's in essential

[23:42] everyday use. The military now depends

[23:45] on communication satellites,

[23:47] surveillance and early warning

[23:48] satellites, weather satellites,

[23:50] navigation satellites. In all, the

[23:53] United States now has in orbit 2659

[23:56] working satellites.

[24:00] The Soviet Union 1880.

[24:04] But our increasing dependence on

[24:06] satellites also raises some concerns.

[24:09] Congressman Ken Kramer of Colorado

[24:11] Springs, where the new space command

[24:13] will have its headquarters. So, we run a

[24:15] risk today uh of in effect uh at some

[24:19] not too distant point in the future of

[24:21] literally being Pearl Harbored in space.

[24:24] >> 10 days ago, the Soviets tested again an

[24:26] anti-satellite weapon, following it with

[24:29] a so-called ripple launch of ICBMs, one

[24:32] wave after another, and then a test of

[24:34] an anti-missile missile. It was a

[24:36] warfighting scenario, and the first

[24:38] target was a satellite.

[24:41] So, the US is trying to find ways to

[24:43] harden and protect our satellites.

[24:46] Permanent manned space stations may

[24:48] someday help. And the Air Force is

[24:51] developing its own anti-satellite weapon

[24:54] launched from an F-15 fighter nicknamed

[24:56] a tomato can. It would knock out another

[24:59] satellite by releasing a kind of

[25:01] shrapnel. Meanwhile, here in Washington,

[25:03] on the conservative right, there's a

[25:05] controversial campaign underway to seize

[25:07] the space high ground for real defense.

[25:10] The plan is widely ridiculed as

[25:12] impractical and perhaps in violation of

[25:14] existing treaties, but its supporters

[25:16] are fervent.

[25:17] >> My vision is that we should make a

[25:20] national commitment to homeland defense.

[25:22] >> Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming, a

[25:24] member of the intelligence committee.

[25:26] >> I believe that we should accelerate our

[25:28] commitment to the defensive use of

[25:30] space. Uh that is a more civilized

[25:33] concept than man has come up with in

[25:35] this century. The specific proposal is

[25:37] called High Frontier and its author is

[25:39] the former head of the Defense

[25:40] Intelligence Agency, retired General

[25:42] Daniel Graham.

[25:43] >> For we get away from the strategy we've

[25:46] had for the last 15 years, which was an

[25:48] offense strategy. In other words, we

[25:50] defend the country by threatening to

[25:52] slaughter a lot of Russians after our

[25:54] own people have been slaughtered. That

[25:56] doesn't make military sense to me. Never

[25:58] did. So Graham proposes that the US put

[26:00] into orbit 432 anti-missile satellites

[26:04] at a cost of more than $20 billion.

[26:07] >> When a Soviet missile rises up, these

[26:10] satellites detect it and track it and

[26:13] then dispatch a small hit vehicle.

[26:15] Within the the small hit vehicle is an a

[26:19] small explosion that that creates a

[26:21] shotgun effect and the pieces of

[26:23] material hit the Soviet

[26:26] uh missile and tear it to pieces.

[26:28] These new capabilities will knock in the

[26:31] hat a lot of the old uh theories of

[26:34] contemporary warfare. Namely, the best

[26:37] defense is a good offense. And it may

[26:39] prove to be that a best defense is a

[26:41] good defense.

[26:42] >> Many critics say a missile defense in

[26:44] space will always be wishful thinking,

[26:47] but it's hard to remember what's already

[26:49] been achieved in space and say for sure

[26:52] that something else can never be done.

[26:55] Bob Athy, NBC News, Washington.

[26:59] >> That's all for this evening. Roger Mud

[27:00] and Tom Brokaw will be here tomorrow

[27:02] night. I'm John Hart. Good night.

[27:24] Tomorrow morning on today, the HEG

[27:26] resignation, the why and the what

[27:28] happens now. Chris Wallace and Brian

[27:30] Gumble with the chairman of the Senate

[27:31] Foreign Relations Committee, Charles

[27:33] Percy, and our former ambassador to the

[27:35] UN, Senator Daniel Moyahan. The voice of

[27:38] the war in the Faullands, BBC reporter,

[27:40] Brian Henraan. American doctors find

[27:43] some anti-uclear colleagues in the

[27:45] Soviet Union. And a special report on

[27:47] the London concert of the Rolling

[27:49] Stones. That plus the latest overnight

[27:51] news developments tomorrow morning on

[27:54] today.

[28:19] Sunday, a tragic death strikes the

[28:21] orphanage on Father Murphy. Then it's a

[28:24] space age showdown on chips. Then Hill

[28:27] Street Blues head Marinaro stars in

[28:29] three eyes. Private detectives who go to

[28:31] any lengths to solve a case. Then it's

[28:33] the Texas Rangers modern day cops taming

[28:35] the wild west. A double feature Sunday.

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[29:10] >> On Miller & Company this week, a rare TV

[29:12] appearance by the man known as the

[29:14] father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. The

[29:17] Louisiana Love was a she was a nice

[29:19] lady, but no no girlfriend of mine, you

[29:21] know, just a just a good friend.

[29:24] >> Okay. And you write the the blues.

[29:27] >> You do believe me, don't you?

[29:28] >> I know.

[29:30] Bill Monroe.