CBS Evening News - 1980-01-09
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[0:00] address tonight at 6:30.
[0:02] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:05] Kronite.
[0:07] >> Good evening. President Carter is
[0:09] seeking broad bipartisan support for his
[0:11] toughened Soviet policy because of the
[0:13] Afghanistan invasion. Last night, Mr.
[0:15] Carter briefed about a hundred senators
[0:17] and representatives on the crisis. This
[0:19] morning at a White House breakfast, he
[0:21] consulted with key advisers from past
[0:23] administrations from Eisenhower's on.
[0:25] Robert Perpoint reports.
[0:28] >> Mr. Carter told his guests the current
[0:31] threat to peace is the greatest since
[0:32] the Second World War. Greater even, he
[0:35] said, than the Soviet invasions of
[0:37] Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Most of
[0:39] those present seem to agree.
[0:42] >> He did characterize the uh situation of
[0:45] the Soviets invading Afghanistan as the
[0:48] a
[0:50] most serious crisis since uh World War
[0:52] II. I think that is a correct
[0:54] characterization of of what's taking
[0:56] place. What impressed me most was a very
[0:59] strong sense of of common feeling that
[1:03] this was perhaps the most dangerous
[1:05] situation that has confronted the United
[1:07] States since the almost since the war.
[1:10] There was also I think a general
[1:11] consensus
[1:13] uh that uh more has to be done uh in
[1:17] order to uh restore
[1:20] uh the credibility of the United States
[1:22] particularly in terms of the vital
[1:25] interest that we have in the area of the
[1:28] Persian Gulf and in the area of the
[1:30] Arabian Peninsula.
[1:32] Cisco was forecasting a major goal of
[1:34] the president's current drive, the
[1:36] establishment of a strong American
[1:38] military presence in the Persian Gulf
[1:40] area. Discussions have a