CBS Evening News - 1980-01-03
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[0:00] WTVF Nashville.
[0:02] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Roger
[0:06] Mud substituting for Walter Kankite.
[0:09] Good evening. It has been weeks since
[0:11] anyone in Washington believed the Senate
[0:13] would ratify the Salt Treaty. But today,
[0:16] President Carter asked that debate on
[0:17] the Moraban Treaty be formally suspended
[0:20] as a form of retaliation against the
[0:21] Soviet Union. Leslie Stall reports from
[0:24] the White House.
[0:27] Faced with overwhelming opposition to
[0:29] SALT 2 in the Senate, the president sent
[0:31] a letter to Majority Leader Robert Bird
[0:33] asking for a delay in consideration of
[0:35] the treaty for an indefinite period of
[0:37] time. While the president continues to
[0:40] believe that ratification of the Salt 2
[0:43] treaty is in the national security
[0:45] interest of the United States, he has
[0:48] concluded that the Soviet invasion of
[0:51] Afghanistan
[0:52] in defiance of the United Nations
[0:54] charter has made consideration of the
[0:57] Salt 2 treaty inappropriate at this
[1:00] time.
[1:02] >> Bird quickly agreed with the request.
[1:04] The president will ask Congress instead
[1:06] to take up some new measures needed to
[1:08] respond to the crisis. Measures that
[1:10] could mean increased military aid for
[1:12] Pakistan. Spokesman Paul said that the
[1:15] president hopes that salt 2 is not dead.
[1:18] But several senators have other ideas.
[1:21] >> I think the president made the right
[1:22] decision in postponing salt. It would
[1:24] have been a better decision to withdraw
[1:26] salt. I think salt is dead as a doornail
[1:30] in the Senate. The salt process is
[1:33] temporarily paralyzed if not dead. The
[1:37] treaty was in serious trouble before
[1:39] Afghanistan.
[1:41] R