NBC Nightly News - 1977-10-13

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[0:04] This is NBC Nightly News

[0:07] with David Brinkley in Washington and

[0:10] John Chancellor in New York.

[0:14] Good evening. Jimmy Carter came out

[0:16] swinging today against the oil industry

[0:18] which he accused of profiteering. He

[0:21] said that unless the Congress approves

[0:22] his plan for saving energy, now in

[0:24] shreds and tatters in the Senate, the

[0:26] country faces the biggest ripoff in

[0:29] history from the oil companies, which

[0:30] could even lead to gasoline rationing.

[0:33] One official described the president's

[0:35] slashing attack at the press conference

[0:37] today as a real blitz. Bob Jameson has

[0:40] the was there. This was President

[0:42] Carter's strongest attack yet on the oil

[0:44] companies. Last spring, he called the

[0:46] energy crisis the moral equivalent of

[0:48] war. Today he carried that a step

[0:50] further in his attack on the oil

[0:52] industry.

[0:52] >> But as is the case in time of war, there

[0:55] is potential war profiteering

[1:00] in the impending energy crisis.

[1:04] This could develop

[1:07] with the passing months as the biggest

[1:10] ripoff in history. The package that was

[1:13] presented to the Congress in April is

[1:16] fair. It's well balanced.

[1:20] It assures that the American people are

[1:22] not robbed.

[1:24] It also ensures that the oil companies

[1:27] get enough incentive to ensure adequate

[1:30] exploration and production. But the oil

[1:32] companies apparently want it all. Under

[1:35] his plan, the president said oil and gas

[1:37] companies whose income was 18 billion in

[1:39] 1973 will have a hundred billion income

[1:42] by 1985. But the producers he charged

[1:45] want 50 billion more. If we deregulate

[1:48] natural gas prices,

[1:51] then the price will go to 15 times more

[1:55] than natural gas prices were before the

[1:59] oil embargo.

[2:01] These billions and billions of dollars

[2:05] are at stake. whether that money should

[2:08] be given partially to the oil companies

[2:10] to encourage production and partially to

[2:13] the American people in a fair way

[2:16] or whether it should all be grabbed by

[2:19] the oil companies at the expense of the

[2:21] American consumer. If he doesn't get the

[2:24] plan he wants, Mr. Carter might ration

[2:26] gasoline in an emergency and put import

[2:28] taxes on oil. The president carefully

[2:30] avoided criticizing the Senate or its

[2:32] members who manhandled his program. The

[2:34] president said he was partially to blame

[2:36] for that, but at the same time, he took

[2:38] still another poke at the oil companies.

[2:40] >> I'm not trying to to blame all the

[2:42] problem on the oil companies. The the

[2:45] the grabbing for the financial rewards

[2:50] is what I deplore in the oil companies.

[2:52] So, what last spring was a mild rebuke

[2:55] of the oil interests opposition to the

[2:56] energy plan has in the autumn, when the

[2:58] votes are crucial, become a full-scale

[3:00] attack on their motives. It is an

[3:02] attempt by the president to picture the

[3:04] oil people as the bad guys who want to

[3:05] gouge consumers with the hope here that

[3:08] it will convince Congress and the

[3:09] American people to go along with the

[3:11] president's energy program. Bob Jameson,

[3:13] NBC News, at the White House.

[3:16] The oil industry feels it is constantly

[3:18] and unfairly kicked around anyway and so

[3:21] it was less than happy with Mr. Carter's

[3:23] assault today. Tom Pettit reports now on

[3:26] what the oil people have to say.

[3:30] David, it was not until very late this

[3:32] afternoon that the oil industry decided

[3:34] how upset it should be and how public.

[3:38] Right after the news conference, the

[3:39] American Petroleum Institute said only,

[3:41] "The American Petroleum Industry is

[3:43] deeply concerned about the energy

[3:45] situation." Pretty bland. No comment

[3:47] about Carter. At Exxon, the biggest oil

[3:50] company, no direct comment about Carter,

[3:52] but multi-billion dollar Exxon did say

[3:54] it is against excess profits and for

[3:56] conservation. Then Gulf Oil said very

[3:59] gently, "We regret the way the president

[4:01] feels." Chevron said politely, "We are

[4:03] disappointed." But then Sunil Vice

[4:06] Chairman Donahghue, I was distressed at

[4:08] the inmperate tone of the president's

[4:10] remarks. Texico, we are disturbed by

[4:13] President Carter's charges that the

[4:14] petroleum industry is attempting to

[4:16] profitee through the National Energy

[4:18] Program. It is a massive tax program,

[4:21] not an energy program. Standard Oil of

[4:23] Indiana, known as AMO in parts of the

[4:26] country, late today issued the strongest

[4:28] denunciation. Chairman John Swearing

[4:30] saying, "The president has made an

[4:32] emotional appeal, but his energy program

[4:35] involves the largest peacetime tax

[4:37] increase ever imposed, and none of it

[4:39] would be used to increase production of

[4:41] domestic energy." And early this evening

[4:44] in New York, the nation's second largest

[4:46] oil company, Mobile, put out a press

[4:48] release accusing the president of making

[4:50] comments that merely cloud the issue.

[4:53] The president's comments were about

[4:55] profitering and ripoff. The issue, at

[4:58] least for the oil companies, is a tax

[5:00] structure they would like. Tom Pettit,

[5:03] NBC News, Washington.

[5:06] It was the US Senate that angered the

[5:08] president first by picking his energy

[5:10] program clean like a chicken, naked and

[5:12] cold. The Senate went on with more of it

[5:15] today. Here's John Cocker.

[5:20] The president's new offensive did not

[5:22] stop the Senate from continuing to cut

[5:24] up his energy plan. Russell Long's

[5:26] finance committee has rejected the

[5:27] president's energy taxes and instead

[5:29] started voting today to give the oil

[5:31] industry tax breaks and loans. and long

[5:34] advised against further attacks on the

[5:36] oil lobby.

[5:38] >> Uh I think on the whole we'd be well

[5:40] advised

[5:42] uh to lower our rhetoric about this

[5:44] matter.

[5:44] >> The Republican leader in the Senate says

[5:46] he has not had a single oil lobbyist try

[5:48] to influence his vote.

[5:51] >> This bill is not in trouble because of

[5:52] special interests. This bill's in

[5:54] trouble because it's a bad bill. I think

[5:56] the president is capable, dedicated. I I

[6:00] think he's highly intelligent and ought

[6:03] to be the first to recognize that he's

[6:05] got a that he's got a turkey on his

[6:07] hands and he ought to go back and try to

[6:09] redo it.

[6:10] >> Even Senator Jackson, the president's

[6:12] ally, admits it's not just oil

[6:14] lobbyists, but consumers who oppose

[6:16] energy taxes. uh putting on heavy taxes

[6:20] which uh will be reflected in what the

[6:23] consumer has to pay at the gas pump for

[6:26] gasoline, what the consumer has to pay

[6:28] for heating oil and so on is uh not uh a

[6:33] political

[6:35] uh at least it's not politically viable

[6:37] at this time. President Carter talks a

[6:40] lot about oil lobbyists, but he never

[6:41] mentions the consumer groups who are

[6:43] fighting his taxes on energy just as

[6:45] hard as the oil companies are. John

[6:48] Cochran, NBC News, the capital. On other

[6:52] subjects, at his press conference, the

[6:53] president said that while he sees no

[6:55] need to rewrite the Panama Canal Treaty,

[6:58] there may be a need to clarify parts of

[7:00] it to get it through the Senate. The

[7:02] president said that if the economy is

[7:04] bad next year, he may ask the Congress

[7:06] for a tax cut. He said his staff is

[7:08] working with Senator Hubert Humphrey and

[7:10] Congressman Augustus Hawkins on a full

[7:12] employment bill which he thinks he can

[7:14] support. And he talked about the

[7:16] troubles in the steel industry. Those

[7:18] troubles will be the subject of our

[7:20] segment three this evening.

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[9:01] >> The US now believes it will get a new

[9:04] agreement with the Russians to reduce

[9:06] the piling of one heavy weapon on top of

[9:09] another year after year. Assault

[9:12] agreement. Richard Valerani reports on

[9:14] how this came about.

[9:18] The deadlock was broken at a White House

[9:19] meeting between President Carter and

[9:21] Soviet Foreign Minister GMO last month.

[9:24] The Russians still refused to give in to

[9:26] American demands that they curtail the

[9:28] planned deployment of their biggest

[9:29] missiles, but they did soften their

[9:31] position somewhat on American cruise

[9:33] missiles. Concessions on both sides have

[9:36] convinced administration officials that

[9:37] a new 8-year agreement will definitely

[9:40] be reached, but they're not sure

[9:42] precisely when. Under the agreement,

[9:44] both countries would be limited to about

[9:46] 2200 nuclear missiles and heavy bombers.

[9:49] Of the 2200, slightly more than half

[9:52] could be missiles with more than one

[9:54] nuclear warhead or MV. A complicated

[9:57] formula would also allow the United

[9:59] States to have a limited number of B-52

[10:01] bombers equipped with cruise missiles.

[10:03] The cruises fly low and slow to their

[10:05] targets with great accuracy. The

[10:07] Russians have not yet developed

[10:09] strategic cruise missiles. The range of

[10:11] all kinds of cruise missiles will be

[10:13] limited, but for only 3 years. After

[10:16] that, a new separate agreement will be

[10:18] necessary for the cruises. The Russians

[10:20] will deploy their big SS18 missiles as

[10:23] planned, but a special limit will be

[10:25] placed on the total number of landbased

[10:27] missiles on both sides. This limit would

[10:29] reduce the temptation on either side to

[10:32] strike first. The Soviet Backfire bomber

[10:35] will not be counted as a strategic

[10:36] weapon, but there will be constraints on

[10:38] its use. Congressional and other critics

[10:41] have already begun complaining these

[10:42] terms would give the Russians a

[10:44] strategic advantage, but Secretary Vance

[10:46] argues the administration has negotiated

[10:48] a balanced package that fully protects

[10:51] American interests. Richard Valerani,

[10:53] NBC News, Washington.

[10:56] >> An NBC News reporter was told today by a

[10:59] senior official of the Justice

[11:00] Department that the grand jury

[11:02] investigation of alleged Korean bribery

[11:04] shows that most congressmen involved did

[11:07] not commit any crime. And for the

[11:09] others, there is insufficient evidence

[11:11] now to prosecute any of them. Hijackers

[11:14] took over Lufansza jet today on its way

[11:16] from Palma, landed at Rome, flew on to

[11:19] Larnica in Cyprus, and flew off again.

[11:21] 87 hostages aboard. David,

[11:25] there are many public lamentations about

[11:28] high schools graduating students who can

[11:30] barely read or write and who are

[11:32] pathetically illquipped to deal with

[11:34] life in an adult world. Well, now

[11:37] Florida is demanding functional

[11:39] functional literacy of high school

[11:42] students, and without it, they don't

[11:43] graduate. Fred Francis in Jacksonville.

[11:48] >> Does you want a dog? Does that sentence

[11:50] sound right?

[11:51] >> Uh-uh.

[11:52] >> This Florida high school student didn't

[11:54] know what was wrong with that sentence.

[11:56] In fact, almost a quarter of the

[11:57] students in this Jacksonville high

[11:59] school have the same problem. They can't

[12:01] read above a fifth grade level. where

[12:03] remedial reading classes are supposed to

[12:05] have a high priority here. But there are

[12:07] only three teachers for the roughly 300

[12:09] kids who cannot read very well. There's

[12:12] no money for textbooks or teachers aids.

[12:14] So the students learn life survival

[12:16] skills. How to read job applications and

[12:19] want ads.

[12:22] >> This year, Florida decided that students

[12:24] must learn more than survival skills. A

[12:27] new testing law says that all students

[12:29] must solve problems like counting change

[12:32] at least on a seventh grade level or

[12:34] they won't get a diploma.

[12:35] >> For so many years, the state of Florida

[12:38] along with other states in the in the

[12:39] union have been socially promoting

[12:42] youngsters. Now we're saying before

[12:44] you're pushed out on society, you will

[12:45] be prepared to meet the life on the

[12:48] outside.

[12:49] >> To accomplish that, 120,000 11th graders

[12:52] in Florida must take a functional

[12:54] literacy test. Passing this test is

[12:57] extremely important. It's necessary for

[12:59] high school graduation and a high school

[13:02] diploma.

[13:03] >> A lot of high school students are

[13:04] worried about that and with good reason

[13:06] because Florida officials think 30% of

[13:09] them will fail the test. Some reading

[13:11] teachers think the failure rate will be

[13:13] even higher.

[13:14] >> Even a crash course oneonone. I don't

[13:16] know if I could bring my students up so

[13:18] that they, you know, my 11th graders up

[13:20] so that they could pass the test next

[13:21] year.

[13:22] Testing is also required in elementary

[13:25] grades. Teachers say now they'll be able

[13:27] to spot problems early. And when these

[13:29] children reach senior high, they'll be

[13:31] able to read the literacy test and it's

[13:33] hoped pass it. Fred Francis, NBC News,

[13:37] Jacksonville.

[13:39] >> Three Nobel Prizes in medicine were

[13:41] awarded today. All three to Americans.

[13:44] Dr. Roger Gilman of the Sulk Institute

[13:47] in San Diego. Dr. Rosalyn Yellow of the

[13:50] Veterans Hospital in the Bronx, New York

[13:52] City, and Dr. Andrew Shelley of the

[13:55] Veterans Hospital in New Orleans for

[13:58] pioneering work in endocrinology and

[14:01] peptid hormones, work of the highest

[14:03] order, the committee said. John, last

[14:07] Friday night, a clerk at the First

[14:08] National Bank of Chicago wheeled a large

[14:10] cart loaded with money into the main

[14:13] vault two floors down in the basement

[14:15] and closed the two-foot thick vault door

[14:18] observed by guards and closed circuit

[14:20] television. On Tuesday, after the

[14:22] Columbus Day holiday, the chief teller

[14:24] counted the cash on the on the cart.

[14:27] Exactly $1 million was missing. A

[14:29] million dollars to the penny. Enough

[14:31] cash to fill a suitcase. They have no

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[16:16] German and Japanese steel plants

[16:18] destroyed in World War II have been

[16:20] rebuilt and so are more modern than ours

[16:23] and efficient. And a government study

[16:25] says American steel has had something

[16:27] less than brilliant management. It pays

[16:30] wages 60% higher than other American

[16:33] industry and has other problems. Our

[16:36] segment three this evening examines the

[16:38] falling income and growing unemployment

[16:41] in steel. And here to start it is John

[16:44] Dancy.

[16:45] >> Steel is still big business in this

[16:47] country. In the first 6 months of this

[16:49] year, big steel took in nearly $20

[16:51] billion. But for each dollar the steel

[16:54] companies took in, they made only about

[16:56] a cent and a half in profits. They want

[16:58] the government to step in and do

[17:00] something about that, namely by limiting

[17:02] the imports of cheaper foreign steel.

[17:04] They say that's what's keeping American

[17:06] steel workers on unemployment. But the

[17:09] problem is just not that simple. Here's

[17:11] a report from Irving Arl Leavine.

[17:13] >> The steel picture is complicated because

[17:16] it is a jumble of problems. Demand for

[17:19] steel is low because world economies are

[17:22] sluggish. Many countries have too many

[17:24] steel mills. Many US steel mills are

[17:27] outdated. American labor costs are

[17:30] rising. Anti-pollution laws add to

[17:33] costs. To find ways to save steel jobs,

[17:37] a variety of people spent a busy day in

[17:39] Washington. 10:00 a.m. Business leaders

[17:43] from 35 steel communities held an

[17:45] emergency meeting. 12 noon at a news

[17:49] conference, a spokesman for the

[17:51] businessmen urged Americans to petition

[17:53] President Carter to drastically cut

[17:56] steel imports.

[17:58] 100 p.m. at the White House, steel

[18:01] industry and union leaders told their

[18:03] troubles to government officials.

[18:06] 3:30 p.m. President Carter dropped in at

[18:09] the meeting to say he is searching for a

[18:12] solution. 4:30 p.m. Participants at the

[18:16] White House meeting said they were

[18:18] pleased because the president plans to

[18:20] take some action soon to save jobs. In

[18:24] all of today's discussions, two points

[18:26] stood out. First, many American workers

[18:29] hold jobs that depend on selling goods

[18:32] overseas.

[18:33] So any cut in steel imports could bring

[18:36] retaliation against American goods. And

[18:39] second, foreign steel is cheaper than

[18:42] American steel. So any cut in steel

[18:45] imports could bring higher prices in

[18:48] this country for everything that uses

[18:50] steel. Irving R. Leavine, NBC News. At

[18:54] the White House. A ton of American steel

[18:56] costs $320. A ton of imported steel,

[19:00] about $283.

[19:02] Faced with that price difference of $37

[19:04] a ton, many of the people who buy steel

[19:07] are turning more and more to imported

[19:09] steel. Much of it from Japan. It's from

[19:11] there that Jim Luri reports. Ironically,

[19:15] 15 years ago, the US sold Japan the

[19:17] technology to get its industry started.

[19:19] Today, it's almost the reverse. Japan

[19:22] exports not only cheap steel but

[19:24] technology. When Inland Steel of Indiana

[19:28] began building a new blast furnace two

[19:30] years ago, it turned to Japan for the

[19:32] knowhow. It's mills like this Nepon

[19:35] Steel Works near Tokyo that have proved

[19:37] Japan steel production more efficient

[19:39] than America's. Unlike most US plants

[19:42] where facilities are widely scattered,

[19:45] this plant has everything from smelting

[19:47] to shipping on one site. While the US

[19:49] has built one integrated mill like this

[19:52] in 15 years, the Japanese have built

[19:54] seven. Also, unlike most US mills, this

[19:58] one is fully automated and computerized.

[20:01] The combination of new one-site plants

[20:03] and automation has brought down

[20:05] production costs and made Japanese steel

[20:07] cheaper. Much credit for this must go to

[20:10] the Japanese government. While

[20:12] government permits industry to borrow

[20:14] more to invest in modern plants, the

[20:16] firms agree to accept profit margins

[20:18] half those expected by American steel

[20:21] makers.

[20:23] Jim Lori, NBC News, Tokyo.

[20:26] >> The people affected most directly are

[20:28] the steel workers themselves. Thousands

[20:30] of them have been laid off this summer

[20:32] and fall, and many of them blame the

[20:34] American steel companies. Here's Bob

[20:36] Kerr in Youngsttown, Ohio.

[20:39] 65,000 American steel workers are now

[20:42] signing up for special federal

[20:44] unemployment benefits because imported

[20:46] steel helped put them out of work.

[20:50] >> This Japanese TV correspondent is in

[20:52] Youngstown, Ohio, where 5,000 steel

[20:55] workers are losing their jobs partly

[20:57] because of imports.

[20:59] He says his report will show the

[21:01] Japanese something they have not seen,

[21:04] how their steel exports affect people

[21:06] and communities in America.

[21:09] But many steel workers don't blame

[21:11] imports alone for their troubles. They

[21:14] also blame some American companies for

[21:16] not keeping their steel mills

[21:17] competitive.

[21:19] >> Over in the bill, I've been over there.

[21:21] I've seen things look like it's going to

[21:22] fall apart. Take old stuff out and put

[21:25] in stuff back in.

[21:29] >> I don't know. It's really been going

[21:30] down and it just fell apart.

[21:33] Youngstown Sheet and Tube says it cannot

[21:36] afford to spend all the money needed to

[21:38] modernize the parts of the steel mill

[21:39] it's closing.

[21:41] >> But this man who represents a coalition

[21:43] of steel towns says the Japanese can

[21:46] afford to modernize the plant and might

[21:48] buy it.

[21:50] >> We've had some indirect discussions and

[21:52] some direct discussions with Japanese

[21:54] companies. They've indicated a level of

[21:57] interest that has led us to continue the

[22:00] discussions.

[22:02] So, it's a time of great uncertainty for

[22:04] steel workers at Youngstown Sheet and

[22:06] Tube because they're not sure who, if

[22:09] anyone, will help them. About the only

[22:12] thing steel workers here are sure of

[22:14] these days is that when work schedules

[22:16] are posted each week, more and more of

[22:18] them find their names missing and that

[22:21] 5,000 names will be gone by Christmas.

[22:25] Bob Kerr, NBC News, Youngstown, Ohio.

[22:28] Part of the problem is that the steel

[22:30] industry all over the world has too much

[22:32] capacity. The plants can produce a lot

[22:35] more steel than they do and so the

[22:37] competition for markets is fierce.

[22:39] President Carter says he is moving

[22:41] quickly to aid the US steel industry,

[22:43] but there may be a lot more jobs lost

[22:45] before whatever the president decides to

[22:47] do takes effect. John Dansy, NBC News,

[22:51] in Gainesville, Virginia.

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[24:33] Briefly today at the Bgrade Conference

[24:35] on Security and Human Rights, the

[24:37] American delegation condemned radio

[24:39] jamming, restrictions on information and

[24:41] movement in Europe, but without naming

[24:43] any countries, including the Soviet

[24:45] Union. In South Africa, Dr. Christian

[24:47] Bernard today implanted the heart of a

[24:50] chimpanzee into a human being so far

[24:53] successfully. Israeli Foreign Minister

[24:55] Mosha Dian said in Jerusalem that his

[24:58] recent meeting with President Carter

[24:59] was, in his words, brutal. that Carter

[25:02] blamed Israel for obstructing peace and

[25:04] threatened to freeze in American Israeli

[25:06] relations. The first fast breeder

[25:09] nuclear reactor in West Germany went

[25:11] critical began operation today. It's the

[25:13] type which produces lots of plutonium

[25:15] which goes into weapons, the kind of

[25:17] reactor which most worries President

[25:19] Carter. David,

[25:22] >> 60 years ago today, three children in a

[25:24] small village in Portugal said they had

[25:26] been involved in a miracle and had seen

[25:29] and spoken to the Virgin Mary. The

[25:32] Catholic Church accepted this and now

[25:34] every year on October 13th, pilgrims

[25:37] from around the world crowd into the

[25:39] town. David Burrington is there.

[25:44] Early this morning, the bells rang out

[25:46] all over town, summoning devout

[25:48] Catholics, including many sick from all

[25:51] across Europe.

[25:55] They came because they believed that

[25:57] here on this date in 1917, three

[26:00] shepherd children saw and spoke to the

[26:02] Virgin Mary. That as a result, this is

[26:05] sacred ground.

[26:10] A lot of people of course no longer

[26:12] believe in miracles, but there were

[26:14] witnesses and the Catholic Church

[26:17] accepts this miracle. In fact, 10 years

[26:20] ago, the Pope came here to consecrate

[26:22] this place.

[26:24] Ever since, it's been one of the most

[26:26] sacred shrines in Europe where many say

[26:28] they've been healed.

[26:33] Some surprisingly accurate predictions

[26:35] came out of the miracle here 60 years

[26:37] ago. predictions of the Russian

[26:39] Revolution, even of World War II.

[26:45] One final prediction remains sealed in

[26:47] the Vatican. Some thought Pope Paul

[26:50] might dispose of it this year, but so

[26:52] far not. Only one of the many mysteries

[26:54] of this place. David Burrington, NBC

[26:57] News in Fatima, Portugal.

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