CBS Evening News - 1981-03-10
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[0:02] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:05] Rather.
[0:06] >> Good evening. Arriving to a mixed
[0:08] reception of cheers and cheers,
[0:11] President Reagan tonight is in Canada.
[0:13] The first visit there by an American
[0:15] president in almost a decade. It was to
[0:17] have been a purely symbolic visit, but
[0:20] it took on substance and controversy
[0:22] with Mr. Reagan's scrapping last week of
[0:24] a proposed East Coast fishing rights
[0:26] treaty. Bill Plant is with the president
[0:29] in Ottawa.
[0:31] >> Spectators were few, but the welcome was
[0:33] warm as Mr. Reagan deplained at the
[0:35] Canadian Forces Base near Ottawa. School
[0:37] children watched and listened as
[0:39] national anthems were played, guns bmed
[0:41] in salute, and the Governor General the
[0:43] president, welcome to the house next
[0:45] door. But later on Parliament Hill, the
[0:48] reception was mixed. Still warm from the
[0:50] Canadian government, but hostile from
[0:52] the demonstrators on behalf of a number
[0:54] of causes who gathered on the hill. The
[0:56] protesters seemed to equal in number the
[0:58] merely curious in the small crowd.
[1:01] Demonstrators complained about the
[1:02] fisheries treaty which Mr. Reagan
[1:04] withdrew last week and also of pollution
[1:06] problems [music] what's called acid rain
[1:08] caused by industrial emissions from
[1:10] American plants near the border. And
[1:12] they viferously protested what they
[1:14] called US involvement in El Salvador.
[1:17] But Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's
[1:19] welcome voiced over the hecklers was
[1:21] nonetheless wholehearted.
[1:24] Canadians are simply delighted that
[1:27] you've come to visit us. And Canadians,
[1:30] as you can see from these signs and as
[1:35] you c