NBC Nightly News - 1977-07-01

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[0:03] This is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:05] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,

[0:07] Friday, July 1st, reported by John

[0:09] Chancellor from the NBC News Center in

[0:12] New York.

[0:14] >> Good evening. It looked today as though

[0:15] the neutron bomb, a new kind of nuclear

[0:18] warhead, will be introduced as a

[0:20] battlefield weapon if President Carter

[0:22] says it's in the national interest. That

[0:24] was the decision of the US Senate today

[0:27] in some complicated voting. The Senate

[0:29] defeated by only one vote a motion to

[0:31] hold back funds for the neutron bomb,

[0:34] but this was and then adopted a

[0:35] compromise which leaves the decision on

[0:38] production, at least for now, up to the

[0:40] president. The neutron bomb kills by

[0:42] radiation mainly instead of by blast,

[0:45] heat, and radiation. The debate on it

[0:47] today took place in secret. Ford Rowan

[0:50] has the story.

[0:52] >> The Senate locked its doors to debate

[0:54] the future of the neutron bomb.

[0:56] Afterwards, Senator Mark Hatfield, an

[0:58] opponent of the bomb, complained that

[1:00] the weapon had been kept secret for so

[1:02] long.

[1:03] But the chairman of the Armed Services

[1:04] Committee, John Stennis, said

[1:06] development of the bomb is the best news

[1:08] I've heard in years.

[1:10] On a key vote, supporters of the neutron

[1:12] bomb won 43 to 42, and money for the

[1:15] weapon remained in the bill.

[1:17] But when Senator Hatfield appeared to be

[1:19] ready to filibuster, the Senate put off

[1:21] a final vote until after the

[1:23] Independence Day holiday.

[1:25] Stennis and Hatfield said they would

[1:26] continue their fight then.

[1:29] >> My personal view is to ban the bomb, but

[1:32] that is not the issue that we are voting

[1:34] on.

[1:35] Uh I think there are variations of views

[1:37] on this question of the bomb, but there

[1:39] should not be, in my opinion, any great

[1:41] disagreement on legitimate legal

[1:44] procedures, orderly procedures that

[1:46] should be followed. I don't see why the

[1:48] Senate should abandon its role and its

[1:51] responsibility here, and that in effect

[1:53] is what I think might have happened had

[1:55] we permitted this go go to a final vote

[1:57] today?

[1:58] >> There's nothing tricky about this

[2:00] matter. I can assure the American people

[2:03] they haven't found one iota

[2:06] of evidence as to the Ford

[2:08] administration or this one

[2:10] for holding back or covering up or

[2:13] anything of that kind.

[2:17] >> Stennis said he had the votes to win

[2:18] approval for the neutron bomb.

[2:21] Under his proposal, President Carter

[2:22] would give the final go-ahead on whether

[2:25] to produce the bomb.

[2:27] The President went to Camp David for the

[2:29] weekend. His aides say he will not have

[2:31] a decision on the neutron bomb until

[2:33] October.

[2:35] Ford Rowan, NBC News, Washington.

[2:38] >> The neutron bomb is essentially an

[2:40] invisible weapon. There is some blast

[2:42] damage, but the killing is done by

[2:44] radiation. The Washington Post says that

[2:46] a 1-kiloton neutron warhead will

[2:49] incapacitate everyone within a half mile

[2:52] of ground zero in 5 minutes. And they

[2:54] would all die in 1 or 2 days. Or if it

[2:57] went off between the Congress and the

[2:59] White House, all the people in that

[3:01] half-mile radius would die while the

[3:03] White House and Capitol buildings would

[3:05] not be damaged. In a minute, I'll talk

[3:07] about all of this with the Secretary of

[3:09] Defense.

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[4:15] >> Our nightly news special this evening is

[4:17] about a subject much in the news, the

[4:19] new weapons, the new cruise missile and

[4:21] the neutron warhead. The administration

[4:23] is going ahead with the deployment of

[4:24] the cruise missile as a highly important

[4:26] element in our nuclear strategy, and the

[4:29] president will have to decide by this

[4:31] fall if the neutron warhead is to be

[4:33] produced. Harold Brown, the Secretary of

[4:35] Defense, is in his briefing room now in

[4:38] Washington, and with him is Charles

[4:39] Quinn, who covers the Pentagon. Good

[4:41] evening, Mr. Secretary.

[4:43] >> Good evening, John.

[4:43] >> Good evening, Chuck.

[4:45] >> Good evening, John. Mr. Secretary, the

[4:47] Russians are already grouching about

[4:49] deployment of the cruise missile. Won't

[4:51] that, combined with the development of a

[4:54] neutron warhead, a neutron bomb, make

[4:56] reaching an agreement, an arms agreement

[4:58] with the Soviet Union, very difficult?

[5:01] >> The enhanced radiation weapon has

[5:03] nothing to do with the strategic arms

[5:05] limitation

[5:07] talks.

[5:08] The cruise missile does because it is

[5:12] mounted on strategic launch vehicles.

[5:15] Bombers.

[5:16] Like the B-52.

[5:19] I believe that we can reach a

[5:23] strategic arms limitation agreement

[5:26] equitable to both sides that

[5:29] does allow us to go ahead with the

[5:32] deployment of the cruise missile

[5:34] on our bombers.

[5:36] >> Well, is this new to the Russians, Mr.

[5:37] Secretary? We and and they have been

[5:40] arguing about the cruise missile for a

[5:42] long time, but did did the president's

[5:44] emphasis on the large deployment of it

[5:46] this week change the way the cards are

[5:48] stacked?

[5:49] >> I think not, John. I think as you say,

[5:52] the Soviets and we have been discussing

[5:55] cruise missiles for quite a long time.

[5:57] And although there's no agreement on any

[5:59] single thing until a whole agreement is

[6:02] agreed, uh

[6:04] there is more, uh

[6:07] overlap

[6:08] between our positions and the Soviet

[6:10] positions on air-launched cruise

[6:12] missiles than there is on many other

[6:14] things.

[6:15] >> Mr. Secretary, on the uh possibility of

[6:17] an agreement, haven't the Russians

[6:19] already rejected the idea of a 1,500-mi

[6:24] uh air-launched cruise missile, the one

[6:26] that the proposal that we made to them

[6:28] earlier this year?

[6:29] >> No.

[6:30] >> They have not.

[6:31] >> No. I don't think I want to go into the

[6:33] details of the uh

[6:35] uh negotiations, but uh the simple

[6:37] answer to your question is no.

[6:39] >> Would you agree Would you agree, sir, to

[6:42] uh any range lesser than 1,500 mi?

[6:44] >> I I don't want to uh carry on my

[6:46] negotiations through third parties. Uh

[6:49] and uh the discussions with the Soviets

[6:52] are going on now. Uh I don't see this as

[6:55] a problem.

[6:56] >> Uh Mr. Secretary, you call We call it

[6:58] the neutron bomb, you call it the

[7:00] enhanced radiation warhead, but

[7:03] uh

[7:03] if we go ahead and build one and deploy

[7:06] it as a tactical weapon in Europe, will

[7:08] the Russians then go ahead and do that?

[7:11] >> We have no way of knowing because in

[7:12] fact, uh their nuclear tests are carried

[7:15] out underground as are ours.

[7:18] And there's no mechanism like this one

[7:20] for us to find out about uh what what

[7:23] they're doing.

[7:24] >> What about the reports that we read in

[7:26] the press that the president really

[7:27] didn't know how far advanced this was

[7:29] and that We know that some members of

[7:31] Congress didn't know what they were

[7:32] being asked to approve.

[7:34] >> I think it has been uh

[7:37] discussed in congressional committees.

[7:39] And as you know, uh

[7:41] the uh senators who are have been aware

[7:44] of it for some time

[7:46] see it as a useful military adjunct,

[7:49] most of them.

[7:51] That's how I look at it myself.

[7:53] It is not designed to lower the

[7:55] threshold for nuclear conflict and I

[7:58] don't think it will.

[8:00] Use of nuclear warheads in Europe would

[8:02] be a very, very large step toward

[8:05] escalation. And it would not be taken

[8:08] lightly.

[8:10] The enhanced radiation warhead because

[8:13] of its characteristics which

[8:16] limit the damage

[8:18] to people and to objects

[8:21] to a fairly well-specified radius would

[8:24] allow it to be used in military

[8:26] situations of interest against tanks,

[8:28] for example,

[8:30] without doing as much damage to people

[8:34] and to things outside that radius. That

[8:37] gives it some military utility.

[8:38] >> Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for

[8:40] being with us tonight. And you too,

[8:41] Chuck.

[8:44] The Secretary of Defense saying he is

[8:45] for the neutron bomb.

[8:48] President Carter's decision on the B-1

[8:50] means that many people in the aerospace

[8:52] business will be laid off, most of them

[8:54] at Rockwell International, which would

[8:56] have been the main contractor. In all

[8:58] and various plants, about 10,000

[9:00] Rockwell employees will be laid off and

[9:02] 2,000 of them got their notices today,

[9:05] one day after Mr. Carter's decision. Roy

[9:08] Neal is there.

[9:11] >> This is black Friday for the 2,000

[9:13] employees here at the Rockwell B-1 plant

[9:15] in Los Angeles

[9:17] who received pink slips along with their

[9:18] paychecks this afternoon. Some of them

[9:20] are leaving the plant now on their last

[9:22] day.

[9:24] President Carter's announcement

[9:25] canceling the B-1 came as a surprise to

[9:27] them yesterday. That surprise was

[9:29] compounded by the rapidity of their

[9:31] layoff. For example, Steve Amos, a

[9:33] project engineer. Steve, what What

[9:35] thoughts at this time?

[9:36] >> Well, it's been an extremely emotional

[9:38] day watching people uh

[9:40] just wait to find out whether they were

[9:41] leaving on 24 hours notice.

[9:44] People canceling orders on cars trying

[9:46] to figure out how they're going to carry

[9:47] $600 a month mortgage when they're

[9:50] living on $104 a week unemployment.

[9:53] >> How about yourself?

[9:54] >> It's going to be extremely tough on me.

[9:56] I'm more fortunate than most.

[9:59] I don't know where I'm going. I don't

[10:00] know where I'll end up.

[10:02] >> Jose Viallobos is one of the workers

[10:04] from that line. You've been with the

[10:05] company for more than 30 years.

[10:06] >> 30 years on this aircraft business and

[10:08] the very disappointment in my broken

[10:10] heart. I see the people crying all over

[10:13] and no job, no place to go and I'm 55

[10:15] years old.

[10:16] I mean, that's really disappointing and

[10:19] a shame. I just hope for the sake of Mr.

[10:21] Jim Carter for the most he love in the

[10:23] world,

[10:24] he made the right decision for good sake

[10:26] and a good American United States of

[10:28] America. I hope he really did a right

[10:30] decision. I'm really shocked. I don't

[10:32] even know what to say. I'm confused as

[10:34] words right now. You got to excuse me. I

[10:36] my feeling but God bless America.

[10:39] >> Rockwell plans to set up a job

[10:41] relocation center here hopeful of

[10:43] finding jobs for these laid-off workers.

[10:45] But with 2,000 laid-off now and

[10:47] nationally including subcontractors,

[10:50] 40,000 workers on the B-1, 32,000 of

[10:53] which will be laid-off in the next few

[10:55] weeks, the job seems somewhat hopeless.

[10:57] Roy Neal, NBC News at the Rockwell plant

[11:00] in Los Angeles.

[11:02] >> President Carter said today that he

[11:04] thinks the congressional reaction to his

[11:05] B-1 decision has been good and that he

[11:08] expects the Congress to uphold his

[11:10] decision. He said that during a

[11:11] picture-taking session in the Oval

[11:13] Office.

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[12:18] >> 15-year-old Charlotte Gross, who was

[12:20] kidnapped Wednesday from a Girl Scout

[12:23] camp near Sarasota, Florida, is back

[12:25] home tonight safe and sound. She escaped

[12:27] from her kidnapper this morning by

[12:29] climbing out a window. Then she ran next

[12:31] door and called the police. A suspect

[12:33] was later arrested. Fred Francis has

[12:35] more details.

[12:37] >> Charlotte Gross, who was dragged

[12:39] screaming from a Girl Scout camp

[12:40] Wednesday morning, was held in this home

[12:42] on Siesta Key for most of her 52 hours

[12:45] in captivity. It is the home of her

[12:47] alleged abductor, a 33-year-old Sarasota

[12:50] salesman. The man had allowed the

[12:52] 15-year-old kidnap victim to call home

[12:54] once 2 days ago, but this morning, she

[12:57] managed to sneak to a phone inside the

[12:58] house and alert her family. Police were

[13:01] listening in and gave her instructions.

[13:03] >> Charlotte was talking to a detective of

[13:06] our department.

[13:08] She said, "I'm all right." He said, "Can

[13:10] you get away?" Things to this effect.

[13:11] These are not quotes. These are not

[13:13] These are paraphrased. She was told to

[13:15] leave the residence

[13:16] by any way she could, out a window or

[13:18] whatever, go next door and call again.

[13:20] She did do this. At this time, we were

[13:22] responding to the scene.

[13:24] >> After her escape, Charlotte was taken to

[13:26] a Sarasota hospital. She had not been

[13:28] harmed, she had not been raped. There

[13:30] was evidence she had been tied up.

[13:32] >> The great fear in this case was that

[13:34] Charlotte would be killed because she

[13:35] knew her abductor's identity.

[13:37] But some officers are now saying she is

[13:39] alive because the suspect, Wilford

[13:42] Arthur Bannister, wanted to be caught.

[13:44] >> Police said when the suspect Bannister

[13:46] discovered the girl missing, he tried to

[13:47] leave the area, but police blocked his

[13:49] car. He offered no resistance. He has

[13:52] been charged with kidnapping and

[13:53] involuntary sexual battery, a crime

[13:56] similar to child molesting.

[13:58] >> Fred Francis, NBC News, Sarasota.

[14:03] >> Communities in six states cleaned up

[14:04] today after tornadoes which struck

[14:06] yesterday and last night. A woman was

[14:08] killed in Kentucky, a man in Illinois.

[14:11] Property damage was worse in Ohio, more

[14:13] than $7 million. The other states hit by

[14:15] tornadoes were Wisconsin, Indiana, and

[14:18] Missouri.

[14:20] Water rationing began today in the city

[14:22] of Los Angeles. People there will have

[14:24] their water meters monitored to make

[14:26] sure they use 10% less than in the same

[14:29] month last year. If they don't, they

[14:31] face warnings first, then fines, and

[14:33] finally a cut off of water. Don Harris

[14:36] tells us what led to water rationing in

[14:38] LA.

[14:40] >> Looking at Los Angeles neighborhoods,

[14:42] it's hard to remember that this is a

[14:44] desert. Los Angeles has had so much

[14:46] water for so long that its desert brown

[14:49] has disappeared, replaced by a

[14:51] well-watered green.

[14:53] The city uses half a billion gallons of

[14:55] water each day, delivered by three huge

[14:58] aqueducts. One bringing water from

[15:00] northern California, one draining a

[15:02] valley in central California, and one

[15:04] funneling water in from the Rocky

[15:05] Mountains and the Colorado River.

[15:08] But now, the water from northern

[15:10] California has been cut off because of

[15:12] the drought.

[15:13] The supply of central California water

[15:15] has been cut in half because of a

[15:16] lawsuit.

[15:18] And the Colorado River Aqueduct is

[15:20] running at capacity trying to make up

[15:21] the difference.

[15:23] But the Colorado River water isn't

[15:24] enough.

[15:25] And today, the city began rationing its

[15:28] water.

[15:28] Requiring a 10% cutback in water usage.

[15:33] Drinking water may not be served in

[15:34] restaurants unless the customer

[15:36] specifically asks for it. Landscaping

[15:38] and lawns cannot be watered between

[15:40] 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and hosing down

[15:43] sidewalks or driveways is prohibited

[15:45] anytime.

[15:46] Non-recycling water fountains have been

[15:48] shut down and not repairing a leaky

[15:50] faucet or water pipe is now against the

[15:52] law.

[15:54] A plentiful supply of inexpensive water

[15:56] was a major reason that Los Angeles grew

[15:58] from a dusty little village into a major

[16:00] city.

[16:01] Now, that unlimited supply of fresh

[16:03] water may be a thing of the past.

[16:06] Don Harris, NBC News, Los Angeles.

[16:10] There's a new disclosure today in the

[16:12] case of Mrs. Marjorie Jackson, the

[16:14] wealthy and eccentric Indianapolis widow

[16:16] who kept millions of dollars around the

[16:18] house and who was murdered for her money

[16:20] last May. Tipped off by one of the six

[16:23] people arrested in the case, the FBI has

[16:25] dug up $2 that was buried in the Arizona

[16:29] desert. Police think it's part of the

[16:31] loot.

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[17:36] >> Police in Rhodesia reported today that

[17:38] guerrillas bombarded the country's

[17:40] foremost tourist resort, the Elephant

[17:42] Hills Country Club in Victoria Falls.

[17:44] That was done last night. The guerrillas

[17:46] fired mortar shells and bullets didn't

[17:48] do much damage. No one was hurt.

[17:51] Secretary of State Cyrus Vance talked

[17:53] about Rhodesia today in a speech before

[17:55] the convention of the National

[17:57] Association for the Advancement of

[17:58] Colored People in St. Louis. The

[18:00] Secretary also talked about American

[18:02] policy toward other African countries.

[18:04] Richard Valeriani reports.

[18:07] >> Secretary Vance used the NAACP platform

[18:10] to deliver the administration's first

[18:12] comprehensive statement on African

[18:13] policy.

[18:15] Vance made absolutely clear that policy

[18:17] includes pressure on South Africa now to

[18:20] end legal discrimination and to move

[18:22] toward one man, one vote.

[18:25] >> After careful consideration, this

[18:26] administration

[18:28] has decided to pursue actively

[18:31] solutions to all three southern African

[18:33] problems.

[18:35] Rhodesia, Namibia, and the situation

[18:37] within South Africa itself.

[18:40] Some have argued that apartheid in South

[18:42] Africa should be ignored for the time

[18:44] being

[18:45] in order to concentrate on achieving

[18:47] progress

[18:48] in Rhodesia

[18:50] and in Namibia.

[18:52] Such a policy would be wrong and would

[18:54] not work.

[19:00] >> NBC News has learned the Carter

[19:02] administration's new approach to Africa

[19:04] will be further underscored by inviting

[19:06] President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania to

[19:08] Washington later this month.

[19:11] Nyerere, who's considered a militant,

[19:13] will be the first black African leader

[19:15] to visit the White House officially

[19:17] during this administration.

[19:19] Richard Valeriani, NBC News in St.

[19:22] Louis.

[19:23] >> The United States and Cuba said today

[19:25] that the first exchange of diplomats

[19:27] between the two countries in 16 years

[19:30] will take place on the 1st of September.

[19:32] There will be no exchange of

[19:33] ambassadors, at least not yet, but 10

[19:36] American diplomats will go to Havana and

[19:38] 10 Cubans will be stationed in

[19:40] Washington. Each group will be called an

[19:42] interest section.

[19:45] >> Virginia Wade has been trying for 16

[19:47] years to win the women's single tennis

[19:49] title at Wimbledon, and today she

[19:51] finally made it. Miss Wade recovered

[19:53] from a shaky start to beat Betty Stove

[19:55] of the Netherlands in three sets. John

[19:57] Dancy reports.

[20:01] >> The 6-ft-1 Dutch woman, Betty Stove,

[20:04] dominated the first set, and many fans

[20:06] thought they were about to see another

[20:07] patented Virginia Wade collapse.

[20:14] But this year it was to be different,

[20:16] and the determined Wade began her

[20:18] comeback in the second set, winning the

[20:20] critical seventh game.

[20:24] Finally, the moment that had eluded

[20:26] Virginia Wade through 16 years of

[20:28] playing at Wimbledon.

[20:46] Afterward, Queen Elizabeth, who had

[20:47] watched the match from the royal box,

[20:49] presented Miss Wade with the trophy.

[20:51] The crowd loved it, and so did Virginia

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[21:08] John Dunsley, NBC News, London.

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[21:50] >> What you doing, Daddy?

[21:52] >> I'm helping my sore sunburn with

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[21:56] >> What you doing, Mom?

[21:57] >> First aid. Vaseline Petroleum Jelly

[21:59] soothes Billy's scraped elbow.

[22:02] >> What you doing, Dad?

[22:03] >> I'm a troll that's gardening. I'm

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[22:07] >> What you doing, Sis?

[22:09] >> Soothing these beat-up feet. No shoes

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[22:49] >> Finally, on this Friday evening, why is

[22:52] this man smiling? And why is he off the

[22:54] ground, levitating? The reason he is

[22:56] interested in Transcendental Meditation,

[22:58] which today began a a summer school

[23:01] course to teach people levitation. Our

[23:03] man Jack Perkins was there.

[23:06] >> This is Maharishi International

[23:07] University in Fairfield, Iowa and

[23:10] several hundred people are on campus to

[23:12] begin the course which starts today.

[23:16] The course which has offered them,

[23:17] quote, "the ability to levitate by mere

[23:20] intention." This very slow, delicate,

[23:24] slow levitation where the individual

[23:26] comes up very, very slowly, comes up a

[23:29] few inches or a foot, even 2 ft, hovers

[23:32] and then comes back down again.

[23:34] >> Stay with

[23:35] >> Several hundred teachers of

[23:36] Transcendental Meditation claim that

[23:38] their leader, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has

[23:40] already taught them how to levitate, how

[23:43] to fly and they are now prepared to

[23:45] teach other people.

[23:47] >> The first time, I guess, that I that I

[23:50] actually lifted off of the ground and

[23:51] started moving forward,

[23:54] the predominant thing in my awareness

[23:55] was, as everybody's mentioned, just

[23:57] intense fulfillment, just such joy.

[24:00] >> And now I find it's it seems to be cuz

[24:02] it's a natural thing. We'd rather do it

[24:03] than anything.

[24:04] >> Well, now,

[24:05] when you go home tonight,

[24:08] uh will you fly?

[24:12] >> This was at one of many public meetings

[24:14] TM people have been staging across the

[24:16] country, charging people to hear about

[24:18] levitation, then urging them to sign up

[24:21] for courses that could cost a couple

[24:23] thousand dollars more to learn

[24:25] levitation.

[24:26] There have been videotapes made of

[24:28] people, quote, levitating, but they

[24:30] don't show them at these meetings. When

[24:32] we asked, "Could we have them to show

[24:34] them on television?" TM officials said,

[24:36] "Yes, if we would pay."

[24:39] We didn't. So, the only pictures we have

[24:41] are still pictures.

[24:44] The TM people gave us these. They seem

[24:46] to show the woman on the right, for

[24:48] instance, levitating, floating

[24:50] cross-legged slightly above the floor,

[24:52] which is covered with mattresses.

[24:55] This young man, likewise.

[24:57] But one evening I was permitted without

[24:59] cameras to witness such levitation and I

[25:02] can tell you that to the extent these

[25:04] pictures make it seem people are

[25:05] floating or hovering,

[25:08] these pictures are misleading.

[25:10] What actually happens is people hop. A

[25:13] most peculiar hop, cross-legged from a

[25:16] lotus position, but a hop.

[25:19] Again, they would not let us film it.

[25:22] Instead, we took cameras down to the gym

[25:24] at USC and described to some young

[25:27] gymnasts there what we had seen. We

[25:29] asked them if they would try it.

[25:32] Well, they did.

[25:34] And this is a fair approximation of what

[25:37] the meditators had done and called

[25:39] flying or levitation.

[25:43] The meditators had gone somewhat higher.

[25:46] They've been practicing it longer.

[25:49] The young gymnasts, although in

[25:50] excellent shape, said after doing this a

[25:53] few minutes, they were exhausted. It was

[25:55] hard exertion.

[25:57] >> Yeah.

[25:59] Now for the 10 minutes.

[26:02] >> Meditators say it does not tire them, it

[26:05] refreshes them. It doesn't feel like

[26:07] exertion, it feels like effortless,

[26:10] joy-filled flying, they say. Utter

[26:13] bliss, they say.

[26:16] Well, starting today at the University

[26:18] in Iowa and later at TM centers

[26:20] elsewhere, curious people, if they wish,

[26:23] may spend a couple months, maybe a

[26:25] couple thousand dollars, and decide for

[26:28] themselves,

[26:29] is it levitation

[26:31] or is it

[26:33] something less than that?

[26:35] Chuck Perkins, NBC News, Fairfield,

[26:38] Iowa.

[26:41] >> And that's it for this week. John Hart

[26:43] will be here tomorrow evening, Catherine

[26:45] Mackin on Sunday, and David Brinkley

[26:47] will be back from his vacation on Sunday

[26:49] when mine, I am happy to say, begins.

[26:52] Good night for NBC news.

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