CBS Evening News - 1981-10-05
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[0:02] around the world.
[0:06] >> From around the world and from CBS News
[0:09] in Washington, this is the CBS Evening
[0:12] News with Dan Rather. And tonight, a
[0:15] special report,
[0:17] highway robbery, the big business of
[0:20] stealing cars.
[0:22] Good evening. President Reagan's
[0:23] sweeping new $180 billion defense
[0:26] package today took heavy shelling,
[0:28] including some from the nation's chief
[0:30] military officer and key Republican
[0:32] senators. The fire came as the Senate
[0:34] began to scrutinize details of the
[0:36] Reagan plan, which the president insists
[0:38] is worth the money because it will
[0:41] significantly strengthen America's
[0:42] nuclear defenses. The two most
[0:44] controversial aspects of the big overall
[0:46] package are deployment of MX missiles
[0:49] and the B1 bomber. The Senate Armed
[0:51] Services Committee concentrated today on
[0:53] the missile decision where opposition
[0:55] doubts are deepest. Ike Papis reports.
[1:00] >> The Senate committee immediately zeroed
[1:02] in on the question of vulnerability,
[1:04] whether the MX missiles under the Reagan
[1:06] plan to put them in reinforced Titan and
[1:08] Minuteman silos would survive a Soviet
[1:11] nuclear strike. General David Jones, the
[1:14] chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
[1:15] said his first choice for a basing
[1:17] scheme was the old Carter
[1:19] administration's plan to shuttle the
[1:21] missiles among thousands of protected
[1:23] shelters, the so-called NPS method.
[1:26] >> I think it's no secret that I
[1:28] recommended the MPS system as as the
[1:31] best system to provide a survivable ICBM
[1:34] uh in the in the mid to late 80s. I was
[1:37] unable to convince the secretary or the
[1:39] president that the MPS was