CBS Evening News - 1981-08-05
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[0:03] from CBS News headquarters in New York
[0:06] this is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:09] Rather and a special report on federal
[0:13] judges tonight in trouble with the law
[0:17] good evening both sides played it hard
[0:19] and tough today in the air controller
[0:21] strike this afternoon President Reagan
[0:23] started firing the strikers and the
[0:25] government claimed it was ready to
[0:26] rebuild the whole system without them by
[0:28] this evening federal judges had sent
[0:30] five local union leaders to jail but
[0:33] almost none of the Thirteen thousand
[0:34] union members went back to work and
[0:36] traffic remained below normal at major
[0:38] airports lemon Tucker reports
[0:41] day three of the strike and the bulk of
[0:44] the nation's air traffic controllers
[0:46] were still defying the president and the
[0:48] United States government in Virginia one
[0:51] Local Union president was sent off to
[0:53] jail held in contempt of court for
[0:55] refusing to go back to work himself
[0:57] refusing to order his members back
[1:03] and indeed the controllers did not seem
[1:06] to be returning to the nation's control
[1:08] Towers in meaningful numbers in
[1:10] Washington just before deadline time
[1:12] transportation secretary Drew Lewis was
[1:15] briefing reporters
[1:16] essentially the position we're taking is
[1:18] that the strike is over despite the fact
[1:20] the union still exists and they'll still
[1:22] be picking I'm the president of the
[1:24] Union Robert Poli responded
[1:27] our people are firm our people are solid
[1:30] we'd rather face this issue right now
[1:32] the government termination notices
[1:34] already telling those who continue to
[1:36] strike that in seven days they are
[1:38] officially dismi