CBS Evening News - 1981-03-21
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[0:02] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:05] Schiffer.
[0:06] >> Good evening. The Reagan administration
[0:08] until now has saved most of its hardline
[0:10] comments for the Soviet Union. But
[0:12] today, National Security Adviser Richard
[0:14] Allen told European allies to shape up.
[0:17] Allen's comments came in a speech that
[0:18] also underlined the changing US attitude
[0:21] towards South Africa and was coupled
[0:23] with a hardline speech by the new UN
[0:25] envoy that reaffirmed US feelings toward
[0:28] El Salvador. both spoke at a meeting of
[0:30] conservative groups in Washington.
[0:31] Richard Roth has a story.
[0:34] >> Lecturing in public for the first time
[0:36] since assuming his White House post,
[0:38] Allen gave the Conservatives all they
[0:40] could have asked for, a clarion call for
[0:42] Allied strength and vigilance. He said
[0:44] the NATO alliance has been weakened by
[0:46] what he called a dangerous economic
[0:48] crisis that is testing Europe's will to
[0:51] meet Soviet challenges. We are even
[0:53] hearing in other countries the
[0:55] contemptable better read than dead
[0:58] slogan of a generation ago. Clearly
[1:00] referring to the Dutch without naming
[1:02] them and to social democrats elsewhere
[1:04] in Europe, Allen warned against a
[1:06] growing sentiment of pacifism. It is
[1:08] illusory, he said, to expect Moscow to
[1:11] respond to anything but a show of
[1:13] strength. The only way to deal with the
[1:15] Soviet Union is from a strong position.
[1:18] Only if it is absolutely clear then that
[1:21] we are in the process of fielding
[1:22] weapons of our own will they agree to
[1:25] serious bargaining on their weapons.
[1:27] Advocating more pragmatism in diplomacy
[1:30] in response to