CBS Evening News - 1980-01-05
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[0:02] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:04] Schaefer.
[0:06] >> Good evening. It has been another tense
[0:08] day for superpower relations at the
[0:10] Kremlin in Moscow and at the UN Security
[0:12] Council in New York. The Soviet Union
[0:14] reacted angrily to last night's speech
[0:16] by President Carter, accusing him of
[0:18] discarding to taunt and reverting to
[0:20] cold war tactics. The reaction came as
[0:23] diplomatic sources in Pakistan estimated
[0:25] that the Soviets now have about a
[0:27] 100,000 troops in Afghanistan. As
[0:30] Defense Secretary Harold Brown arrived
[0:32] in Ping for talks with the Chinese. Talk
[0:35] sure to reflect the administration's new
[0:36] get tough policy with the Soviets. And
[0:39] as the situation in Iran seemed more
[0:41] confused than ever. There's been no
[0:42] change in the status of the American
[0:44] hostages in Thrron. But in the Iranian
[0:46] countryside, new fighting has broken out
[0:48] among followers of the rival Ayatollas.
[0:50] Our report on all of this begins with a
[0:53] story in Moscow. Here's Mike Lee.
[0:56] It
[0:56] >> wasn't until 12 hours after President
[0:58] Carter's speech that people on the
[1:00] streets of Moscow were officially
[1:01] informed that American, Soviet relations
[1:04] in the areas of trade, economics,
[1:06] science, technology, and the arts had
[1:08] all changed overnight. The official news
[1:11] agency pass in its first mention of
[1:13] President Carter's announced measures
[1:14] against the Soviet Union that said these
[1:17] measures borrowed from the cold war
[1:19] arsenal are a flagrant violation by the
[1:21] United States of its own commitments and
[1:23] relations with the USSR. Task went on to
[1:26] say that those measures confi