NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-10

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[0:00] Nashville.

[0:05] >> [music]

[0:06] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Roger Mudd

[0:09] in Washington and Tom Brokaw in Tel

[0:12] Aviv.

[0:14] Good evening from Tel Aviv where the

[0:15] prospects for peace in Beirut seem very

[0:17] promising tonight. The Israeli cabinet

[0:20] now has approved in principle an

[0:22] evacuation plan for the PLO and the man

[0:24] who worked out that evacuation formula,

[0:26] American diplomat Philip Habib, is in

[0:29] Israel tonight to provide additional

[0:30] information to the Begin government.

[0:32] Here are the main points of the plan.

[0:35] All PLO fighters would leave Beirut and

[0:37] the United States would assure Israel of

[0:39] their departure.

[0:41] As the first PLO leave, two to 300

[0:44] French members of a peacekeeping force

[0:46] would move into Beirut.

[0:47] After most of the PLO fighters have

[0:49] left, the rest of the peacekeeping force

[0:51] would take up positions. That includes

[0:54] 800 Americans, 400 Italians, and another

[0:57] 500 French.

[0:59] Finally, if the PLO does not go or stops

[1:02] its evacuation, the peacekeeping force

[1:04] is to stand aside and Israel is free to

[1:07] resume the attack.

[1:09] This peacekeeping plan went before a

[1:11] special session of the Israeli cabinet

[1:13] this morning and Martin Fletcher has

[1:14] been covering that part of the story.

[1:18] Ambassador Philip Habib arrived suddenly

[1:21] in Israel tonight and looked as though

[1:22] he had good news. One report from Beirut

[1:25] said he carried a list of countries that

[1:26] would accept PLO fighters. If so, that

[1:29] would overcome Israel's main problem

[1:31] with his plan.

[1:32] Prime Minister Begin's cabinet said a

[1:34] list of countries was a precondition to

[1:36] final agreement and Israel wants to know

[1:39] how many PLO fighters each country will

[1:41] take and insists that number adds up to

[1:44] the number of guerrillas Israel believes

[1:46] to be in Beirut. The cabinet spokesman

[1:48] said Israel wanted agreement soon. I can

[1:51] say that we wanted and we hope it will

[1:53] be as soon as possible. I wouldn't put

[1:55] any deadline. US Ambassador Samuel Lewis

[1:57] saw Begin twice today clarifying and

[2:00] explaining details of the plan preparing

[2:02] the way for Habib. If the question of

[2:04] where the PLO will go is being solved,

[2:07] then the next stumbling block is the

[2:09] timing of the arrival of the

[2:10] multinational peacekeeping force. But

[2:13] Israel has already said it's prepared to

[2:14] compromise on this one.

[2:16] Israel has also put forward several

[2:18] other more minor objections to the plan

[2:21] but Israeli sources say agreement on

[2:22] these should not be difficult. Hopes

[2:25] have been high several times before only

[2:27] to fade again but this time agreement

[2:29] could be near. Martin Fletcher, NBC

[2:32] News, Tel Aviv.

[2:34] Shortly after the cabinet meeting broke

[2:35] up, Israeli forces surrounding West

[2:37] Beirut and Israeli warplanes resumed

[2:40] their attacks on positions of the PLO.

[2:43] An Israeli military spokesman said they

[2:44] were responding to fire from the PLO at

[2:47] the time. More on that part of the story

[2:49] now from James Compton in Beirut.

[2:52] Israeli jets came back in the afternoon

[2:54] and bombed Beirut suburbs.

[2:58] The jets were expected. Israel is

[3:00] keeping the pressure on to make sure

[3:02] Palestinian forces leave Beirut.

[3:06] Life in a dangerous city.

[3:09] Even as a peace settlement seems near,

[3:11] Israel tightens its blockade of Muslim

[3:13] West Beirut. The city struggles just to

[3:16] burn its growing mountains of rubbish.

[3:19] This is what remains of a hospital that

[3:21] has now been hit hundreds of times.

[3:24] There are still 20 patients here. They

[3:26] live in the basement.

[3:28] The Israeli blockade and the suffering

[3:30] of civilians has angered the foreign

[3:32] community in Beirut. A group of women

[3:34] today tried to march to Israeli lines to

[3:36] protest the lack of food and fuel, to

[3:39] protest civilian casualties. They never

[3:42] got close enough for any Israeli to hear

[3:44] their plea. It was another frustration.

[3:48] People are just tired. It's gone on for

[3:50] so long and they don't see when there's

[3:51] going to be an end and they just they

[3:53] just don't know anymore. They live from

[3:55] day to day today. It's either a day you

[3:57] get bombed or it's a day you don't get

[3:58] bombed. It's that's how you divide time.

[4:03] This morning snipers were firing on an

[4:05] intersection at the edge of West Beirut.

[4:08] The shots came from the direction of

[4:09] Israeli lines but they could easily have

[4:12] been Palestinian.

[4:14] This is how one returns from a grocery

[4:16] shopping trip in West Beirut today.

[4:22] James Compton, NBC News, West Beirut.

[4:25] The Israeli government is convinced that

[4:27] this continuous military pressure has

[4:29] forced the PLO to accept the evacuation

[4:31] plan.

[4:32] And as I was leaving Beirut today, I saw

[4:34] the Israelis setting up for a rocket

[4:36] attack. It appeared that they were

[4:37] preparing to give the PLO some of their

[4:40] own.

[4:41] They were preparing to fire Katyusha

[4:43] rockets captured from the PLO.

[4:46] Roger.

[4:47] President Reagan has made no public

[4:49] comment on the Beirut negotiations since

[4:51] his sharp comments and angry looks of a

[4:53] week ago Sunday but his spokesman have

[4:56] have and clearly the administration is

[4:58] quietly pleased at the progress. Here's

[5:00] Bernard Kalb at the State Department.

[5:03] Have any The Reagan administration

[5:05] quickly welcomed the Israeli decision.

[5:07] The State Department spokesman saying

[5:08] the US is encouraged by the continuing

[5:11] momentum in the negotiations.

[5:13] We are cautiously optimistic that the

[5:15] remaining issues with regard to West

[5:17] Beirut can be worked out soon

[5:19] and that we will be able to move rapidly

[5:21] to implementing the agreement. That

[5:24] cautious optimism was echoed by a

[5:26] visitor to the White House, the leader

[5:27] of the Israeli political opposition,

[5:29] Shimon Peres. The president expressed

[5:33] his belief that we are very near

[5:36] solving the Beirut problem peacefully.

[5:41] He feels that

[5:43] as I do, that there may be an opening

[5:46] for the continuation of a peace momentum

[5:50] in the Middle East. And Syria's

[5:52] ambassador to Washington reiterated his

[5:54] country's readiness to accept the PLO's

[5:56] leaders and officers.

[5:58] Altogether, they might reach 1,000 and

[6:01] if they reach 1,000 we accept them. We

[6:04] didn't say we stop at 1,000 or short of

[6:07] 1,000. We said

[6:10] practically, literally, we accept the

[6:12] leadership and the officers. And a late

[6:15] report by the Syrian government news

[6:16] agency that Syria is also prepared to

[6:19] accept PLO rank and file fighters.

[6:22] But despite all the upbeat signals, US

[6:25] officials are pointedly warning that

[6:26] there's always the possibility of things

[6:28] still falling apart. Bernard Kalb, NBC

[6:32] News, the State Department.

[6:34] And there are now reports that Iraq has

[6:36] offered to take all of the PLO

[6:38] guerrillas and that Tunisia says it will

[6:40] accept the first contingent of the PLO.

[6:43] Tunisia's ambassador to the United

[6:44] States said tonight, our doors are open.

[6:47] We hope there is no more talk of Arab

[6:49] unwillingness to accept the PLO.

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[8:34] The Israeli Prime Minister Begin today

[8:36] condemned the shooting of a number of

[8:38] Jews in a Paris restaurant yesterday.

[8:40] Begin said if the French government

[8:42] cannot protect the Jews, then the Jews

[8:44] will have to protect themselves. More on

[8:46] that story now from Steve Mallory in

[8:48] Paris.

[8:51] French security forces were making

[8:53] themselves seen in the Jewish

[8:54] neighborhoods of Paris.

[8:56] Police were stationed outside synagogues

[8:59] and businesses.

[9:00] Security at the Israeli Embassy was

[9:02] tighter than usual.

[9:04] A few dozen people gathered outside Joe

[9:06] Goldenberg's restaurant, the site of

[9:08] yesterday's killings, and debated the

[9:11] French government's professed concern

[9:12] about protecting French Jews.

[9:15] Two officers watched nearby.

[9:17] Goldenberg's restaurant reopened today.

[9:20] Inside, business was slow. Over the

[9:23] counter service only.

[9:25] Late this afternoon, a militant Jewish

[9:27] organization ignored a government plea

[9:29] not to stage a demonstration at the

[9:30] Israeli Embassy.

[9:32] Speakers denounced the French government

[9:34] saying it was pro-Arab and they praised

[9:36] Prime Minister Begin.

[9:38] Several hundred of the demonstrators

[9:40] then marched through police lines and

[9:42] onto the Champs-Élysées, Paris' busiest

[9:45] avenue, to protest yesterday's shooting.

[9:48] They chanted, "PLO murderers."

[9:51] The government believes a rival

[9:53] Palestinian group may be responsible for

[9:55] the incident, not the PLO.

[9:58] The demonstrators shouted insults

[10:00] against France's president, François

[10:01] Mitterrand.

[10:03] Police reinforcements were brought in,

[10:05] but they were unusually patient. And

[10:07] after an hour, the demonstrators

[10:09] dispersed without serious incident.

[10:11] Steve Mallory, NBC News, Paris.

[10:15] Today, two of those victims were

[10:17] identified as Americans. Roger.

[10:20] The House Foreign Affairs Committee

[10:22] voted 22 to 12 today to repeal sanctions

[10:25] imposed by President Reagan against

[10:27] companies doing business on the Soviet

[10:29] natural gas pipeline. Members of the

[10:31] committee, many of whom have companies

[10:33] in their home districts which are

[10:34] hurting because of the sanctions, paid

[10:36] attention to local political concerns

[10:38] and resisted the strong White House

[10:40] pressure against the vote.

[10:42] The White House had hoped to be more

[10:43] successful today in its efforts on

[10:45] behalf of the $99 billion tax increase.

[10:48] The president spent the day twisting

[10:50] arms and applying his persuasive skills

[10:52] on a continuous stream of influential

[10:54] visitors. John Palmer reports.

[10:57] They came in waves beginning at 9:30

[10:59] this morning and continued all day. More

[11:01] than 50 members of Congress, all

[11:03] Republicans, coming to the White House

[11:05] to hear the president argue for his $99

[11:07] billion tax bill. At one point,

[11:10] reporters were ushered in to hear the

[11:12] president make his pitch. What we're

[11:14] really talking about

[11:16] is the necessity to reduce the deficits

[11:19] and thus get interest rates to continue

[11:21] coming down to get the economy moving

[11:23] again.

[11:24] And this will do it. The press office

[11:27] alerted reporters when friendly visitors

[11:29] in favor of the tax bill were leaving

[11:31] the White House. May have your

[11:32] attention, please. Senator Roth is now

[11:35] on the driveway in front of the West

[11:36] Lobby. Thank you.

[11:38] Senator Roth co-authored last year's tax

[11:40] cut and now supports the president's tax

[11:43] increase. When they begin to understand

[11:45] this tax package,

[11:47] what it contains, that it's not really a

[11:50] tax increase, but tax reform, that

[11:54] you're going to find more and more

[11:55] people will join us. The other author of

[11:57] last year's tax cut, Congressman Jack

[11:59] Kemp, remains opposed to the tax bill,

[12:02] and his departure went unheralded. Even

[12:05] Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca was

[12:07] produced in the driveway, where he

[12:09] offered reporters a new version of his

[12:11] TV sales technique to endorse the

[12:14] president's tax bill.

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[12:17] As I said, you know, if somebody can

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[12:22] John Palmer, NBC News at the White

[12:24] House.

[12:26] The nation's governors, half of whom are

[12:28] facing the voters in November, today

[12:30] decided it would not be politically

[12:32] sound either to oppose President

[12:33] Reagan's new federalism or to endorse

[12:36] it. So, they did neither. The Reagan

[12:38] plan would transfer social welfare

[12:40] programs to the states, and the

[12:41] governors voted today to endorse a plan

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[14:27] In Houston today, a man in court on a

[14:29] burglary charge gave authorities

[14:30] information which persuaded them he had

[14:32] committed between 9 and 22 murders of

[14:35] young women in seven different cities.

[14:38] He said he wants to plea bargain.

[14:39] Barbara Rowan has the story.

[14:43] Coral Watts, a 28-year-old bus mechanic,

[14:46] led police on a search today for the

[14:47] body of a woman he said he killed. Watts

[14:50] confessed to nine murders, but police

[14:52] believe he may have been involved in as

[14:54] many as 22 deaths.

[14:58] Watts was in court today pleading guilty

[15:00] on an unrelated burglary charge in

[15:02] exchange for a 60-year prison term and

[15:04] immunity from further prosecution in the

[15:06] murders. Watts agreed to lead detectives

[15:08] to burial spots in several cities:

[15:11] Austin, Galveston, and Houston in Texas,

[15:14] Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Kalamazoo in

[15:15] Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. District

[15:19] Court Judge Douglas Shaver says it's

[15:20] important to find out the truth. know

[15:23] that moms and dads are sitting out there

[15:24] someplace wondering where their missing

[15:27] child is, and every time the phone rings

[15:29] or there's knock on the door, is the

[15:30] child going to return? Now, at least

[15:33] they'll know where their child is.

[15:35] Prosecution psychiatrist described Watts

[15:37] as a battered child from a broken home

[15:40] with fantasies that all women were evil.

[15:42] Investigators say all the victims were

[15:44] teenagers or women in their 20s and

[15:47] appear to have been selected at random.

[15:49] Barbara Rowan, NBC News, Houston.

[15:53] Vernon Jordan, former president of the

[15:55] National Urban League, testified today

[15:56] in the trial of Joseph Paul Franklin.

[15:58] Franklin is accused of violating

[16:00] Jordan's civil rights by trying to kill

[16:02] him more than two years ago. Roger

[16:04] O'Neil reports from South Bend, Indiana.

[16:07] The man accused of shooting Vernon

[16:09] Jordan in the back, Joseph Paul

[16:10] Franklin, who now has shoulder-length

[16:12] hair, heard Jordan describe today how it

[16:14] felt to be shot. Jordan appeared to look

[16:16] at Franklin only once in his 30 minutes

[16:18] of testimony. Franklin stared at Jordan

[16:20] when he took the witness stand, but then

[16:22] turned away and never looked at him

[16:23] again.

[16:24] Jordan told the jury how Martha Coleman,

[16:26] a member of the Fort Wayne Urban League,

[16:28] had driven him back to his hotel after

[16:30] having coffee at her home. When he went

[16:32] around the car toward the room, Jordan

[16:34] said, "All of a sudden, I felt myself

[16:36] sailing into the air and felt dramatic,

[16:38] sharp pain." At first, he said, "I

[16:40] thought I was dreaming and wanted to go

[16:41] back to sleep." Then he added, "I knew I

[16:43] had been shot." Federal prosecutors

[16:46] charged Franklin was hiding in some tall

[16:47] grass near the hotel waiting for Jordan

[16:49] with a high-powered hunting rifle.

[16:51] Franklin, an avowed racist, was

[16:53] described as enraged after seeing Jordan

[16:55] and Mrs. Coleman, who is white,

[16:56] together.

[16:57] The prosecutor then asked Jordan, "Did

[16:59] you see the person who shot you?"

[17:00] Jordan, "No, I did not." "Did you hear a

[17:02] shot?" "No."

[17:04] Jordan avoided reporters as he left the

[17:06] courtroom.

[17:08] Federal prosecutors now have to build

[17:09] their case on circumstantial evidence,

[17:11] trying to place Franklin in Fort Wayne

[17:13] at the time of the shooting, his car

[17:14] seen near the hotel, trying to sell a

[17:16] rifle a week later, and hearing from two

[17:18] men who claim Franklin boasted about

[17:20] shooting Vernon Jordan.

[17:22] Roger O'Neil, NBC News, South Bend,

[17:24] Indiana.

[17:26] A federal appeals judge today delayed

[17:28] the execution of convicted murderer

[17:30] Frank Coppola because Virginia's death

[17:32] penalty law has not yet been reviewed by

[17:34] the courts. Lawyers for Virginia will

[17:36] ask Chief Justice Warren Burger to

[17:38] overturn the stay so that the execution

[17:40] can go ahead as scheduled at 11:00

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[19:19] A National Transportation Safety Board

[19:21] staff report concluded today that flight

[19:24] crew error was the probable cause in the

[19:26] crash of Air Florida Flight 90 last

[19:28] January. Robert Hager reports.

[19:31] Seven months after the snowy day last

[19:33] January when the crash occurred,

[19:35] investigators for the Safety Board met

[19:37] and agreed there were two major causes.

[19:39] First, the crew's decision to take off

[19:41] in spite of a 45-minute buildup of snow

[19:44] and ice on the wings and fuselage,

[19:46] inhibiting the plane's ability to lift

[19:47] off. Second and equally important, the

[19:50] crew's failure to use the onboard engine

[19:52] deicing system built into all 737s.

[19:56] That caused small pressure valves like

[19:58] these on the fronts of the engines to

[19:59] plug with ice, would have caused

[20:01] inaccurate meter readings in the

[20:02] cockpit, and led the pilots to believe

[20:04] they were taking off faster than they

[20:06] really were. Investigators said the

[20:08] pilots should have decided to abort the

[20:09] takeoff before they were airborne. It's

[20:12] our belief that the the takeoff should

[20:14] have been rejected very early on. The

[20:16] board also said there are still many

[20:18] questions about deicing procedures. The

[20:21] winter season will be upon us again, and

[20:23] I'm not sure we know now, even after Air

[20:26] Florida, any more about deicing

[20:29] anti-icing than we knew before. The

[20:31] board was critical of the Air Florida

[20:33] crew, saying it had only limited winter

[20:35] flying experience, and expressed some

[20:38] worry that 737s generally may tend to

[20:41] pitch nose up when their wings are iced.

[20:44] The Air Florida company tonight issued a

[20:45] statement saying it believed that was

[20:47] the major cause of the crash. Robert

[20:49] Hager, NBC News at the National

[20:50] Transportation Safety Board.

[20:53] The Los Angeles County District

[20:54] Attorney's Office said today Marilyn

[20:56] Monroe's suicide in 1962 is being

[20:59] reinvestigated because of her missing

[21:01] diary, and because of allegations that

[21:03] the death certificate signature had been

[21:05] coerced. Here's Heidi Schulman in Los

[21:07] Angeles.

[21:10] Los Angeles County supervisors called

[21:11] for the new investigation after a flurry

[21:13] of publicity given charges Marilyn

[21:15] Monroe was murdered. A private detective

[21:18] offered $10,000 for her missing diary,

[21:20] claiming it had information about

[21:22] government dealings with gangsters and a

[21:24] plot to kill Fidel Castro. Information

[21:26] he said she got from Robert and John

[21:28] Kennedy.

[21:35] Gossip linked Monroe romantically to the

[21:38] Kennedy brothers, and a friend who

[21:39] claims he read the diary says she was

[21:41] about to tell all when she died. That

[21:43] diary, I would say, would contribute

[21:46] greatly to her death. The detective

[21:48] theorizes someone in the CIA killed

[21:50] Monroe to keep her quiet. That's at odds

[21:53] with the coroner's report, which said

[21:54] she died from an overdose of sleeping

[21:56] pills. But news stories that a coroner's

[21:58] investigator said he was coerced into

[22:00] signing the death certificate prompted

[22:02] supervisors to call for a new probe. To

[22:05] me, after 20 years, it's time to clear

[22:07] up this case once and for all.

[22:09] An assistant district attorney is

[22:11] reviewing the information in the case,

[22:13] but he says that 20 years after Marilyn

[22:15] Monroe's death, it is so stale, it would

[22:17] take huge resources to uncover anything

[22:19] new. Heidi Schulman, NBC News, Los

[22:22] Angeles.

[22:24] Henry Fonda's heart condition has gotten

[22:26] worse, and he is back in the hospital in

[22:27] Los Angeles in serious condition. This

[22:30] is the fifth time the 77-year-old actor

[22:32] has been hospitalized in the past year

[22:34] and a half. Doctors are readjusting his

[22:36] heart medicine.

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[24:14] Douglas Kiker, moving west along US

[24:16] Route 30, is in Ohio tonight, reporting

[24:18] from Mansfield, one of a hundred smaller

[24:20] cities that give Ohio its special

[24:22] character, and provide a different angle

[24:24] on America's faith in the future.

[24:27] From the Ohio State Fair.

[24:32] Are the good times really over for good?

[24:35] >> [music]

[24:37] >> And with double-digit unemployment in

[24:39] Richland County, well, it's being

[24:41] >> The news from Mansfield is not good.

[24:48] Mansfield, Ohio, [music] population

[24:50] 51,000, unemployment rate 13 and 1/2%,

[24:55] way over the national average, with no

[24:57] immediate relief in sight. This

[25:00] recession

[25:01] has blowed everybody's mind apart. They

[25:03] they they they're not counting on

[25:04] anything.

[25:06] The people here make washers and dryers,

[25:08] stoves and pumps and auto parts.

[25:11] Mansfield is not very big, so the

[25:13] layoffs and the pay cuts in the

[25:15] factories have sent an economic

[25:17] shockwave rumbling through the entire

[25:19] town.

[25:20] Well, good morning, ladies and

[25:21] gentlemen, and welcome to the party in

[25:23] the park here in Central Park,

[25:24] Mansfield.

[25:26] But morale, morale is surprisingly high.

[25:30] >> [music]

[25:35] >> Nobody in Mansfield is going around

[25:37] singing happy days are here again. This

[25:39] is more akin to wartime morale, when

[25:42] people say, "We're all in this together,

[25:44] so let's all pull together and see it

[25:46] through somehow."

[25:50] >> [music]

[25:50] >> If the town is on hard times, the

[25:52] financial community itself is also on

[25:54] hard times.

[25:56] I think the name of the game today is we

[25:58] have to help those customers hang on,

[26:00] cuz they're going to be here in the

[26:01] future, and that's what we're building

[26:02] on.

[26:04] >> [music]

[26:05] >> I think most of the merchants are are

[26:07] doing are doing okay in the downtown.

[26:10] Breaking even? Yes, breaking even.

[26:15] I just hope that I can get by

[26:17] till this thing breaks.

[26:19] Years back you were good to semi-night.

[26:22] Right now, it's slow. No, before maybe

[26:24] we really didn't care, but now you see

[26:25] how hard times are, and you're making a

[26:28] bigger effort. And I think I think

[26:30] things will turn around.

[26:32] >> [music]

[26:33] >> So, they are holding on here in

[26:35] Mansfield as best they can, hoping for,

[26:39] waiting for, believing in a better day.

[26:42] Indeed, what other choice do they have?

[26:45] Ohio now has the third highest

[26:46] unemployment rate of the

[26:49] Good [music] times ain't over for good.

[26:55] Douglas Kiker, NBC News along Route 30

[26:57] in Mansfield, Ohio.

[27:00] When things really get bad in Mansfield,

[27:02] they can always look back to those

[27:04] glittering days right after World War

[27:06] II, when Lauren Bacall and Humphrey

[27:07] Bogart were married in Mansfield.

[27:09] That's Nightly News for Tuesday. I'm

[27:11] Roger Mudd in Washington.

[27:15] And I'm Tom Brokaw in Tel Aviv. Good

[27:16] night for all of us at NBC News.

[27:26] Tomorrow morning on Today, reports from

[27:28] Beirut and Tel Aviv on the situation in

[27:30] Lebanon.

[27:31] Bob Kur talks to the PLO's new man in

[27:34] Washington about the US plan for ending

[27:36] the conflict. Bryant Gumbel talked to

[27:38] some Lebanese Americans who went to

[27:41] Beirut looking for members of their

[27:42] families.

[27:43] Jane Pauley looks at the war game some

[27:45] adults play, and listens to the Wright

[27:47] brothers, one of Nashville's

[27:49] up-and-coming groups. Elia Kazan talks

[27:52] about the movie business as some Italian

[27:54] Americans accuse the media of giving

[27:56] them image problems.

[27:59] That plus the latest overnight news

[28:00] developments, tomorrow morning on Today.

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