NBC Nightly News - 1980-06-22
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[0:00] SMTV Nashville
[0:02] >> from New York. This is NBC Nightly News
[0:05] with Jessica Savage.
[0:09] >> Good evening. Just as the leaders of the
[0:11] seven western nations were about to
[0:13] begin their summit in Venice today,
[0:15] there was an unexpected announcement
[0:16] from the Soviet Union. The vaguely
[0:19] worded statement carried by the Soviet
[0:20] news agency TAS said the Russians will
[0:23] withdraw some of the estimated 85,000
[0:25] troops from Afghanistan. No word from
[0:28] the Soviets on how many or when, but
[0:30] radio KBO reports the withdrawal began
[0:32] this morning. Our Moscow correspondent
[0:34] Gene Pel says Western analysts there see
[0:37] the move as a gesture tied to the
[0:39] opening of the summer Olympics and the
[0:40] Venice summit. White House correspondent
[0:42] Judy Woodruff at that summit reports
[0:45] that Western leaders there will accept
[0:46] only a total withdrawal of Soviet
[0:49] troops.
[0:51] It was early morning in Venice when the
[0:53] seven leaders arrived separately at San
[0:55] Gorgio Island for their first meeting
[0:57] together. Preliminary publicity on the
[0:59] summit had focused on the disarray in
[1:01] the alliance. But when the group came
[1:03] out to pose for pictures, they were
[1:04] faced with a declaration from the
[1:06] Soviets that would later elicit from
[1:08] them a unified response. It was French
[1:11] President Jizar Dist who relayed a
[1:13] message to the Allied leaders from
[1:15] Soviet President Brev, announcing a
[1:17] partial troop withdrawal from
[1:19] Afghanistan. Much of the afternoon, the
[1:21] leaders worked on a statement on the
[1:23] Afghan situation. The results announced
[1:26] later by the summit host appeared to be
[1:28] a victory for the U