World News Tonight (ABC) - 1979-06-12
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[0:02] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:05] with Barbara Walters reporting on the
[0:07] John Wayne story, part one of a special
[0:10] assignment series assessing President
[0:12] Carter's performance and problems. And
[0:15] from our desk in Washington, Frank
[0:17] Reynolds. Good evening. President Carter
[0:19] today proposed his version of a limited
[0:22] national health care plan, a program
[0:24] that would begin in 1983 and would
[0:27] include protection for all Americans
[0:29] from catastrophic illness costs. It is
[0:32] on the issue of health care that the
[0:34] president and Senator Edward Kennedy of
[0:36] Massachusetts are most sharply divided.
[0:38] And that division was re-emphasized
[0:40] today. Here's a report from White House
[0:42] correspondent David Garcia.
[0:46] President Carter brought some key
[0:47] members of Congress to the announcement.
[0:49] Senators and congressmen whose support
[0:51] is crucial to his step-by-step approach
[0:53] to ensure all Americans against health
[0:55] costs. Conspicuously absent was Senator
[0:57] Edward Kennedy. And while the president
[1:00] did not mention Kennedy by name, he
[1:01] blasted Kennedy's concept.
[1:04] >> There are those who sincerely believe
[1:06] that we must insist upon a full-scale
[1:09] comprehensive plan enacted all at once.
[1:14] But I must say in all cander that no
[1:16] child of poverty, no elderly American,
[1:20] no middle class family has yet benefited
[1:24] from a rigid and unswerving commitment
[1:26] to this principle of all or nothing.
[1:29] >> The president's idea is called the
[1:31] national health plan, a phased approach
[1:33] ending with a comprehensive plan in
[1:35] 1990. It includes a $2,500 limit on what
[1:38] working families would have to spend in
[1:40] a year to cover the cost of illness. For
[1:42] poor people, there's a total subsidy.
[1:44] All pregnant women are covered with
[1:46] prenatal, delivery, and infant service
[1:47] costs with a first-year price tag to the
[1:50] taxpayers of just over $18 billion.
[1:54] >> The national health plan will rid this
[1:56] nation of the fear of financial ruin
[2:01] from catastrophic illness.
[2:02] >> The president pointed to those on stage
[2:04] with him as proof of widespread support.
[2:07] And while supportive, they also found
[2:09] room for improvement. uh we'll try to
[2:11] take the best that he has to offer and
[2:13] the best that we can offer and bring the
[2:16] same to Bill.
[2:17] >> There is rhetoric, there is controversy,
[2:19] there is politics in this issue that
[2:21] affects every person in the United
[2:23] States. But when you consider the
[2:24] similarities, the controversy can be
[2:27] submerged and I believe the controversy
[2:30] will be submerged.
[2:32] >> But on Capitol Hill, the person many
[2:34] feel must be convinced wasn't.
[2:36] >> We cannot afford it. It is too
[2:39] inflationary and too inequitable. By
[2:43] failing to set a national budget, by
[2:45] inadequately controlling hospital costs,
[2:48] by failing to control doctor's fees in
[2:51] the private sector, by perpetuating two
[2:54] separate and unequal systems of care,
[2:57] the president's plan may well become the
[2:59] straw that breaks the back of the
[3:02] American health care system.
[3:04] >> Senator Kennedy's response came as no
[3:06] surprise here. One senior staffer
[3:09] reading the Kennedy press release called
[3:10] it a political document attacking the
[3:13] president with an eye on 1980. David
[3:16] Garcia, ABC News, the White House.
[3:19] In a moment, a report on the passing of
[3:22] John Wayne.
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[4:32] >> President Carter issued a statement
[4:34] today about the death of John Wayne. Mr.
[4:36] Carter said, "In an age of few heroes,
[4:39] he was the genuine article."
[4:42] John Wayne's long battle against cancer
[4:44] came to an end last night when he passed
[4:47] away at the UCLA Medical Center. Here's
[4:50] Barbara
[4:52] >> Frank. John Wayne's funeral will be
[4:54] Friday. And according to his wishes, it
[4:56] will be private. His eldest son,
[4:58] Michael, said today, "Dad lived with
[5:00] dignity and he wanted his funeral
[5:01] services conducted the same way. He
[5:04] personally didn't care for funerals. He
[5:06] liked to remember people as they were."
[5:09] From Los Angeles, where John Wayne lived
[5:11] and worked. Here's Steven G.
[5:14] >> 29 years ago, when John Wayne put his
[5:16] bootprints into the cement at the
[5:18] Chinese Theater in Hollywood, he had
[5:20] been a star for more than a decade. He
[5:22] died yesterday evening at 5:35 at the
[5:24] UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. And
[5:27] the qualities of strength and courage
[5:29] that helped make Wayne a star were
[5:31] evident to hospital personnel in his
[5:33] final hours. Mr. Wayne died in a coma.
[5:37] >> He had been having considerable pain
[5:40] for for some time. He was under
[5:43] medication.
[5:45] Uh at times he he he denied medication.
[5:49] He wanted to be awake. He wanted to be
[5:51] with his children, his grandchildren.
[5:54] >> John Wayne underwent two cancer
[5:56] operations at UCLA this year after
[5:58] recovering from open heart surgery last
[6:00] year and removal of a cancerous lung in
[6:02] 1964.
[6:04] This year, the UCLA Medical Center
[6:06] switchboard has been flooded with calls
[6:07] from fans and admirers. And today,
[6:10] tributes came from around the world,
[6:12] including one from San Clementi.
[6:14] John Wayne was true grip on and off the
[6:17] screen. The roles he played and the life
[6:20] he lived will inspire Americans for
[6:22] generations to come.
[6:25] >> 40 years ago, Wayne starred in the
[6:27] classic western film Stage Coach with
[6:29] actor John Keredine. Today, Keredine
[6:32] remembered the Duke.
[6:33] >> He was a
[6:37] man for all men and all women.
[6:40] Men liked him. Rose admired him.
[6:46] He's a hell of a guy.
[6:48] >> Just three years ago with Lauren Beall
[6:51] and with Keredine, John Wayne made his
[6:53] last film, The Shootest, the story of a
[6:55] gunfighter dying of cancer. The producer
[6:58] was Mike Franovich.
[6:59] >> Duke felt just as the man in the picture
[7:02] did,
[7:03] uh, that he wanted to die with his boots
[7:05] on, and I think he did both in both the
[7:08] picture and in real life. He was
[7:10] battling and fighting right to the end.
[7:12] Here in the motion picture capital of
[7:14] the world, the flags are at half staff
[7:16] today. Steven Gear, ABC News, Hollywood.
[7:22] >> He was born in 197 in Winteret, Iowa,
[7:25] the son of a drugist. His family moved
[7:28] to Southern California when he was six.
[7:30] There he learned to ride horses. He
[7:32] wanted to be a lawyer, but instead
[7:34] became a Hollywood stuntman. Director
[7:37] John Ford took notice of his ambition
[7:39] and threw some parts his way. He made
[7:42] dozens of cheap westerns and then in
[7:44] 1939 he made the film that turned him
[7:46] into a star. John Ford's classic western
[7:50] stage coach co-starring Claire Trevor.
[7:54] >> Look, Miss Dallas,
[7:56] you got no folks.
[7:58] Neither have I. Well, maybe I'm taking a
[8:02] lot for granted, but
[8:05] >> but you don't know me.
[8:08] You don't know who I am. I know all I
[8:11] want to know.
[8:15] There you go.
[8:18] >> John Wayne made over 200 films. Even he
[8:21] didn't know the exact number. And he was
[8:23] the greatest box office draw in the
[8:25] world for over 25 years. But his
[8:28] worldwide fame made his personal life
[8:30] difficult. He was married three times,
[8:33] all to Latin American women, and
[8:35] altogether he had seven children and 21
[8:38] grandchildren.
[8:39] On screen, John Wayne was the inevitable
[8:42] hero. He never served in the armed
[8:44] forces, but he fought the enemy on film
[8:46] throughout the Second World War. It was
[8:49] during the Vietnam War that he got the
[8:51] reputation of being a hawk. The movie
[8:54] Green Berets personified his point of
[8:56] view. He defended the war and this
[8:58] offended a lot of people. But Wayne
[9:01] always felt he had not just the right
[9:03] but the duty to speak out. If I want
[9:07] things to be done, I feel that I have to
[9:10] be a part of it. I can't sherk it off
[9:12] onto somebody else. If I feel that I
[9:15] have something that is worthwhile
[9:17] saying, I say it.
[9:20] >> But his views could not be categorized.
[9:23] He surprised many by working to help
[9:24] Jimmy Carter passed the Panama Canal
[9:27] Treaty. He also advocated the release of
[9:29] Patty Hurst. 10 years ago, he made the
[9:33] movie True Grit, playing the part of a
[9:35] tough old gunslinger. The film won him
[9:38] his only Academy Award. But True Grit
[9:41] could also serve to characterize the
[9:43] man.
[9:44] >> He fought a battle with cancer for 15
[9:46] years, survived heart surgery and more
[9:48] operations for cancer. And in April,
[9:51] erect and smiling, he appeared for the
[9:54] last time before an audience at the
[9:56] Academy Awards.
[10:03] This past winter, John Wayne talked with
[10:05] us for what was to be his last
[10:07] interview. He told us how he felt about
[10:10] life and death.
[10:11] >> Listen, I spoke to the man up there on
[10:15] many occasions and and I have uh
[10:19] but I've always had deep faith that
[10:21] there is a supreme being. There has to
[10:24] be. You know, that's just to me that's
[10:27] just a a normal thing to have that kind
[10:30] of faith.
[10:32] The fact that he's let me stick around a
[10:34] little longer or she's let me stick
[10:36] around a little longer. Uh uh certainly
[10:40] goes great with me and then and I want
[10:42] to hang around as long as I'm healthy
[10:44] and not in anybody's way.
[10:46] >> Do you fear death?
[10:47] >> I don't look forward to it because it's
[10:50] as you know, I mean, I don't care what
[10:52] faith you have. Uh
[10:56] maybe he isn't the kind of a father that
[10:58] I have to my children. Maybe he's a
[11:00] little different. Maybe he won't uh be
[11:03] as nice to me as I think he will. But I
[11:05] think he will.
[11:09] >> That was John Wayne's last interview. We
[11:12] taped it one day before he went into the
[11:14] hospital, ostensibly for a gallbladder
[11:15] operation. But he had the feeling he
[11:18] told us that the doctors might find
[11:19] something more. And I think that's why
[11:21] he did the interview. A few years ago,
[11:23] Wayne decided I was getting rough
[11:25] treatment from the press, as he had from
[11:27] time to time. And although we'd never
[11:28] met, he wrote and said, "Hang in there."
[11:31] That's how our relationship began, and
[11:33] it led to our talk on camera. There were
[11:35] some things Wayne wanted people to know,
[11:38] that he was worried about what inflation
[11:39] could do to this country, that he
[11:41] considered the capitalistic system the
[11:43] best in the world, and that he was at
[11:45] peace with himself. John Wayne left
[11:48] behind a large and devoted family, seven
[11:50] children, and 21 grandchildren. But in
[11:52] truth, there isn't one of us who knew
[11:54] him or watched him on screen who doesn't
[11:56] feel tonight like one of the family.
[11:59] We'll have a special program on John
[12:01] Wayne, Homage to the Duke, tonight at
[12:03] 11:30, 10:30 central time.
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[14:16] >> A US Air Force transport plane today
[14:18] evacuated 61 Americans from Nicaragua
[14:21] and flew them away from the Civil War
[14:23] there to the Panama Canal Zone. The
[14:25] evacuees were mostly women and children.
[14:28] Bill Stewart has more on the fighting in
[14:30] Nicaragua today.
[14:32] National Guard planes fired rockets into
[14:35] Managua neighborhoods yesterday and
[14:37] today, hoping to kill Santinistas on the
[14:39] ground while avoiding heavy casualties
[14:41] themselves from a constant stream of
[14:43] sniper fire. Some of the National Guard
[14:46] rockets hit this church, killing an old
[14:48] man and five children. The Sandinistas,
[14:52] frequently teenagers wearing bandanas to
[14:54] hide their identities, use firepower and
[14:57] roadblocks to protect their positions.
[14:59] But the National Guard has better
[15:01] weapons supplied by the United States in
[15:03] Israel and the only airplanes, giving
[15:06] them clear military superiority.
[15:09] Superiority used to bomb this opposition
[15:12] newspaper in a poor neighborhood
[15:14] yesterday and the homes of a growing
[15:16] stream of refugees who fear that their
[15:19] families will be bombed next. These
[15:22] people are refugees among those hurt
[15:24] most by this fighting. And yet at this
[15:26] refugee center, everyone we have talked
[15:28] with says he supports the Sandinistas
[15:30] and would stay and fight with them if
[15:32] only he had the weapons to do so. This
[15:35] is a Catholic refugee center. Sunday it
[15:38] had 800 people. Today, 2 days later,
[15:41] several thousand.
[15:43] Bill Stewart, ABC News, Managua,
[15:46] Nicaragua.
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[15:55] former Cuban Air Force pilot who flew a
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[15:59] Cuba 10 years ago. The airliner arrived
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[16:04] passengers and crew members safe. Cuban
[16:06] authorities took the hijacker into
[16:08] custody in Havana and released the plane
[16:10] and its passengers shortly afterward.
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[18:48] >> In a congressional hearing room today,
[18:50] the subject was the current gasoline
[18:52] shortage and the question, are the oil
[18:54] companies holding back on refining more
[18:56] gasoline? Roger Peterson has the story.
[19:00] >> Energy Department officials told
[19:01] Congress oil company policies
[19:03] contributed to the gas shortage and
[19:05] higher prices. Because they feared
[19:07] Iranian oil production would not resume
[19:09] this year, Deputy Energy Secretary John
[19:11] Olirri said the companies stockpiled
[19:13] crude oil and cut back on gasoline
[19:16] production.
[19:16] >> I think they were too conservative and
[19:18] that had the the the uh effect of
[19:21] increasing the shortfall in gasoline and
[19:25] forcing prices up. At another point in a
[19:28] hearing that became a shouting match at
[19:30] times, energy officials answered charges
[19:32] they had failed to share information on
[19:34] oil production with the Federal Trade
[19:35] Commission. They said the FTC never
[19:38] asked for the figures.
[19:39] >> There has not been a single statement
[19:41] that we have denied to the Federal Trade
[19:43] Commission or indeed to anyone else any
[19:45] data that were available to us that we
[19:47] properly could diss.
[19:48] >> Exactly. And therefore, how could we
[19:50] have denied it?
[19:51] >> This is a circus. We will call Patrick
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[19:55] Will you give them everything they asked
[19:56] for?
[19:56] >> No, I have put bounds around what they
[19:59] will get.
[20:00] >> Oly said he would provide what wasn't
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[20:04] with the FTC to settle the problem. If
[20:06] there are any further difficulties,
[20:08] Rosenthal said he'd have Congress
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[20:12] from the president.
[20:13] >> You got to cooperate. I'm not kidding.
[20:15] You have got I'm telling you, we will
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[20:18] >> Roger Peterson, ABC News, Washington.
[20:22] Secretary of State Vance warned the
[20:23] Congress today that President Carter
[20:25] will probably veto any attempt by
[20:27] Congress to lift trade sanctions against
[20:30] the new government of Zimbabwe,
[20:31] Rhodesia. But even as Vance testified,
[20:34] the Senate was preparing to vote on an
[20:35] amendment to lift those sanctions and
[20:37] that vote could come tonight.
[20:40] Senator Henry Jackson of Washington uses
[20:42] very strong words tonight in a speech
[20:45] about the new arms limitation treaty
[20:47] with the Russians. Jackson will say that
[20:49] acceptance of Salt 2 will quote
[20:52] constitute appeasement in its purest
[20:54] form, reminiscent of British policy
[20:56] toward Nazi Germany in the 30s. That
[20:58] comes quite close to calling Jimmy
[21:00] Carter Neville Chamberlain. And the
[21:02] White House will surely not be pleased.
[21:04] Tonight, we begin a three-part special
[21:07] assignment series on the president and
[21:09] his conduct of the presidency. To begin,
[21:12] here is our White House correspondent,
[21:14] Sam Donaldson.
[21:16] I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear.
[21:18] >> I, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear.
[21:23] >> It all began on a note of high
[21:25] expectation and goodwill. But as the
[21:27] months and years have gone by, the
[21:28] public's opinion of Jimmy Carter has
[21:30] steadily declined through successes as
[21:33] well as failures. So that now the
[21:35] expectation has been sharply reduced.
[21:38] And so has the goodwill. This is the
[21:40] most inflationary anti-consumer decision
[21:43] that has been made in the White House in
[21:45] this century.
[21:46] >> Uh people realize that Carter's
[21:48] abandoned the the party. I think the
[21:50] administration did throw in the towel uh
[21:53] without a fight on the issues of uh
[21:55] deontrol.
[21:56] >> The president's problems include
[21:57] inflation, recession, the energy crisis,
[21:59] and the strategic arms debate. But none
[22:02] of them seems to be by itself
[22:03] responsible for Mr. Carter's decline.
[22:06] Instead, debate about the president and
[22:08] the way he does his job has come to be
[22:10] dominated by one central theme.
[22:12] >> I think it's leadership. I think there's
[22:14] a theme running through all those
[22:16] particulars that uh you don't know where
[22:19] Jimmy Carter is going or is trying to
[22:22] take the country. William Lee Miller,
[22:25] political scientist, presidential
[22:26] watcher, early student of Jimmy Carter,
[22:29] says that despite such admirable
[22:30] qualities as honesty and intelligence,
[22:32] the president simply hasn't made a
[22:34] strong impression on the public. He
[22:37] doesn't arouse very strong emotions
[22:39] either way. And it would it would be a
[22:41] mark of his becoming a leader if there
[22:44] were people who hated him.
[22:46] >> You mean actually hated him better?
[22:48] >> That's right. Because he would then have
[22:51] the electricity would be flowing. Ladies
[22:53] and gentlemen, the president of the
[22:55] United States.
[22:59] >> The White House media machine has been
[23:00] doing what it could lately to try to get
[23:02] the electricity flowing. The pump is
[23:04] back. The speech writing staff has been
[23:06] turned over. But the president can be
[23:09] his own worst enemy when as a leader he
[23:11] tries to rouse the country to his side,
[23:14] for he often sends confusing signals on
[23:17] inflation.
[23:18] All of you know how bad inflation is and
[23:22] it will not get much better in the near
[23:25] future. I think the inflation rate is
[23:28] going to turn and go down in the
[23:31] foreseeable future after a few months.
[23:33] >> And on energy,
[23:34] >> the American people are willing to face
[23:36] the hard reality of the petroleum
[23:39] problem and they are willing to see oil
[23:41] priced on a realistic basis. The
[23:44] American people have absolutely refused
[23:46] to accept a simple fact. We have an
[23:50] energy crisis. I don't I'm not blaming
[23:53] the Congress. We've not had adequate
[23:55] support from Congress. It's necessary to
[23:58] stop aggravating the problem by blaming
[24:01] one another and by seeking out
[24:03] scapegoats.
[24:05] >> But if some of the major problems are
[24:06] still fuzzy and unsolved, the vice
[24:09] president contends the reason is not
[24:11] failure of leadership. We are confronted
[24:13] with factors that any president would
[24:15] have the same problems that we do. Uh
[24:18] runaway and energy costs that we can't
[24:21] control yet because in past
[24:23] administrations they did not deal with
[24:24] the energy problem. We're dealing with
[24:26] it but it takes time. I think President
[24:28] Carter's been doing an excellent job.
[24:30] He's been honest. He hasn't embarrassed
[24:32] the American people. He is able and he's
[24:35] standing up and telling the truth and
[24:36] doing it in an open way. And I think
[24:38] that's what Americans want.
[24:39] >> Then why is he so low in the polls? Uh,
[24:42] polls go up and down. I've been in
[24:44] politics, as I said, for a long time.
[24:47] >> His go down, but they've also gone up
[24:49] and they'll go up again. But not yet.
[24:52] The polls are not yet going up for Mr.
[24:54] Carter. Americans are measuring
[24:55] leadership in more ways than honesty and
[24:57] openness, as we shall see tomorrow in
[25:00] the second of our series on Jimmy
[25:01] Carter's presidency. Sam Donaldson, ABC
[25:04] News, the White House.
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[26:15] >> On the map, the English Channel doesn't
[26:18] appear all that wide. But the more than
[26:21] 20 miles between England and France
[26:23] represented a major challenge to a young
[26:25] man from California who today did
[26:27] something no one has ever done before.
[26:30] Greg Dobs has the story.
[26:34] In the flying machines, they go up to
[26:37] your
[26:41] >> This flying machine is the Gossamer
[26:43] Albatross, a pedal powered airplane or a
[26:46] bicycle with wings.
[26:52] >> More than $200,000 was at stake this
[26:55] morning. A prize put up by an English
[26:57] businessman for the first humanpowered
[26:59] flight across the English Channel. 22
[27:02] miles from the White Cliffs of Dover to
[27:04] Crop Green.
[27:06] 70 lb of plastic and polystyrene.
[27:09] Wingspan longer than a DC9 and a 135lb
[27:14] engine by the name of Brian Allen. To go
[27:17] up up, the engine pedals faster. For
[27:20] downity down, slower. And apart from the
[27:23] noise from boatloads of rescue teams and
[27:25] reporters, the albatross itself was
[27:27] silent if you don't count the huffing
[27:29] and puffing of the engine. Finally, the
[27:32] French coast.
[27:34] >> Shades of Charles Lindberg, baby.
[27:38] Come on.
[27:41] >> The engine had performed flawlessly as
[27:43] if pedaling a bike 20 mph for nearly 3
[27:46] hours and no coasting. Does the engine
[27:50] now view itself like Lindberg as a
[27:52] celebrity?
[27:53] >> Right now I view myself as pretty tired.
[27:55] >> Tired, but with the rest of the
[27:57] Albatross team richer. Now they can
[28:00] afford a motor. They probably don't want
[28:02] one. Greg Dobs, ABC News on the English
[28:05] Channel.
[28:08] >> Thank you, Greg. And congratulations,
[28:10] Brian. That's our report on World News
[28:12] Tonight for ABC News. Good night
[28:17] >> from ABC. This has been World News
[28:20] Tonight.
[28:25] Tonight, homage for the Duke. An ABC
[28:29] News special on the death of John Wayne
[28:32] with Barbara Walters. Tonight at 11:30,
[28:36] 10:30 Central time here on ABC. The
[28:40] local news is presented at 6:00 on
[28:42] Channel 2's News Watch. In today's news,
[28:45] there's more on the trucker's
[28:46] dissatisfaction with diesel fuel prices
[28:49] and some interesting political comments
[28:51] in a committee hearing on the transfers
[28:53] of some state employees. A facelift
[28:56] offer raises some questions. And there's
[28:59] a guitar picker school here in Music
[29:01] City. All these and more local news
[29:03] stories on News Watch the 6:00 news on
[29:06] channel 2.
[29:09] and Sundance are together again.
[29:11] >> Butch and Sundance are together again
[29:14] for the first time.
[29:15] >> Stop the train.
[29:17] >> Oh, you thought I'd want to get off
[29:18] >> when they were young enough and man
[29:21] enough
[29:23] and cool enough to try anything
[29:26] and get away with it. Butch and
[29:28] Sundance.