NBC Nightly News - 1977-09-09

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[0:00] in Nashville.

[0:05] >> This is NBC Nightly News

[0:09] with John Chancellor in New York and

[0:12] David Brinkley in Washington.

[0:15] Good evening. President Carter had more

[0:17] disagreements with the Israelis today.

[0:19] He said their expanding of settlements

[0:22] in the occupied Arab lands was illegal

[0:25] and created a problem for him in trying

[0:27] to bring peace to the Middle East.

[0:29] Here's Bob Jameson at the White House.

[0:33] >> President Carter reacted to the news

[0:34] from Israel after a meeting with the

[0:36] president of Argentina. Mr. Carter

[0:38] didn't seem alarmed that the Israelis

[0:40] want to establish new West Bank

[0:41] settlements.

[0:43] >> Well, obviously

[0:45] this creates additional problems. I will

[0:48] be meeting with with Foreign Minister

[0:51] Diane later on this month and this will

[0:54] be one of the items on the agenda. Our

[0:58] country has taken a uh insistent

[1:01] uh stand

[1:03] for many years that the establishment of

[1:06] uh settlements in the the occupied

[1:09] territories on the West Bank and

[1:11] otherwise by uh Israelis

[1:16] is illegal and obviously this creates a

[1:19] problem and we intend to pursue but

[1:22] despite our stand in fact it seems to

[1:25] some in defiance of it they persist in

[1:27] Sir, you've uh did analyze it very well.

[1:32] >> Senior presidential aids, meanwhile,

[1:33] were trying to play down the importance

[1:35] of the Israeli talk about new

[1:36] settlements in the occupied territory

[1:39] and said it didn't seem this was the

[1:40] official policy of the Israeli

[1:42] government. And White House officials

[1:44] seem content to wait to see the peace

[1:45] plan that Israel's foreign minister

[1:47] Diane will bring to Washington next

[1:49] week. Bob Jameson, NBC News, at the

[1:51] White House.

[1:53] This latest tension between Washington

[1:55] and Israel stems in part from statements

[1:57] made by the new minister of agriculture

[1:59] there, Ariel Chiron, a general who was a

[2:02] hero soldier in the war of 1967. Chiron

[2:05] says that Jewish settlements in occupied

[2:07] Arab territories are more important than

[2:10] peace no matter what the Americans

[2:12] think. Here is some of what Chiron told

[2:14] our reporter Bill Lord.

[2:17] I would not say that we don't care about

[2:19] American reaction because that is I

[2:22] would say our only and closest friend

[2:25] and uh in the world and uh but I think

[2:29] that uh I think that people in the state

[2:31] in the administration

[2:33] uh should understand more the importance

[2:37] of settlement

[2:39] uh for us one thing should be clear

[2:42] Israel is not going to withdraw from the

[2:44] west bank I don't speak now about

[2:45] political solution for the population

[2:47] there. But I think that has been made

[2:49] clear by the government. Israel is not

[2:51] going to withdraw from the West Bank.

[2:53] One should understand one thing.

[2:55] We are going to live here and exist

[2:57] here. We don't have any other place.

[2:59] That is our homeland. It's our country.

[3:01] That's our home.

[3:03] And uh therefore

[3:06] though all of us want peace for us the

[3:10] the the question of existence the is I

[3:14] would say even

[3:16] more important than a question of peace.

[3:18] The problem

[3:19] >> the foreign ministers of the Arab

[3:21] countries have agreed at a meeting to

[3:23] ask the United Nations General Assembly

[3:25] for a formal condemnation of these

[3:27] Israeli settlements.

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[5:08] >> Bert Lance was named by President Carter

[5:10] to be budget director just one day after

[5:13] the US attorney in Atlanta decided that

[5:15] Lance couldn't be prosecuted for banking

[5:17] irregularities.

[5:18] And today, that US attorney, now in

[5:21] private practice, accused unnamed

[5:23] officials of the Carter administration

[5:25] of withholding and concealing FBI

[5:27] information on Lance, which should have

[5:29] gone to the Senate. He talked to

[5:31] reporters in Atlanta, and our man James

[5:33] Poke was there.

[5:36] Former US Attorney John Stoke says he

[5:39] closed the investigation of campaign

[5:41] overdrafts at Bert Lance's bank because

[5:44] he felt there was no crime to be

[5:46] prosecuted. if it was sound banking

[5:48] practice or not. It's obvious to me it

[5:50] wasn't. But it wasn't a criminal

[5:52] violation. And this was the part we had

[5:54] to consider.

[5:54] >> With what you know now, with the

[5:56] allegations that have come to your

[5:57] attention, would you reopen the case?

[6:04] I I I

[6:07] Well, that's a very difficult question.

[6:09] I still feel that the decision that I

[6:12] made was correct. I do feel that other

[6:14] facts that have come to light since then

[6:16] would have caused me to keep the case

[6:18] open and make further inquiry into these

[6:21] other matters.

[6:23] Stoke said he was never told about half

[6:25] a million dollars in overdrafts by

[6:27] Lance's family at the same bank, but he

[6:30] said the Senate committee that approved

[6:32] Lance wasn't told everything either.

[6:37] The former prosecutor charged President

[6:39] Carter's aids withheld the investigation

[6:41] file from Lance's confirmation hearings.

[6:44] In effect, the prosecutor was saying he

[6:46] didn't play politics in the case, but

[6:48] Carter's people did. James Pulk, NBC

[6:52] News, Atlanta.

[6:55] John Heyman, the controller of the

[6:57] treasury, was back on of the currency,

[6:59] was back on the stand today talking

[7:00] about Lance and his money. And he said

[7:03] his cashing checks for more money than

[7:05] he had might have been a violation of

[7:07] the law. And his use of the bank's

[7:10] airplane for personal trips might have

[7:12] been another violation. A member of the

[7:14] Senate committee asked if he thought all

[7:16] this was nitpicking, and he said no, he

[7:18] didn't think so.

[7:20] Earlier in the day, a member of the

[7:21] president's cabinet, Agriculture

[7:23] Secretary Bob Bergland, was quoted as

[7:26] saying he thought Bert Lance ought to

[7:27] resign. Later in the day, Bergland said

[7:30] no, that wasn't quite what he said. He

[7:32] thought Lance should have a fair

[7:33] hearing, he said, and then decide what

[7:36] to do. John, the voters of New York

[7:39] learned one thing for sure in the first

[7:41] round of their mayoral election. They're

[7:43] going to have a new mayor. The incumbent

[7:45] Abraham Beam was one of five Democrats

[7:48] knocked out in yesterday's voting. The

[7:50] two remaining contenders will meet 10

[7:52] days from now in the second part of the

[7:54] primary. Robert Hager reports.

[7:59] THE two top vote getters who go into the

[8:01] runoff are Ed Cotch, a 9-year veteran of

[8:04] Congress who campaigns with former Miss

[8:06] America best Meerson at his side, and

[8:09] New York's Secretary of State Mario

[8:11] Cuomo, who's backed by Governor Hugh

[8:13] Carrey. Cuomo and Cotch began as

[8:16] underdogs, but benefited from heavy

[8:18] television advertising. And for Mayor

[8:20] Abe Beam, who spent a lifetime working

[8:23] his way up through the ranks of

[8:24] neighborhood political clubs and the

[8:26] bureaucracy of the city's budget

[8:28] department, it was the end of a

[8:30] political career.

[8:31] >> There's no way I can express my

[8:35] appreciation,

[8:37] my deep affection

[8:43] for those of you who labored so hard.

[8:52] I'm grateful to the citizens, the

[8:55] unions, my staff, and especially my

[9:00] devoted family.

[9:03] >> He won office after emphasizing his

[9:05] experience as an accountant, but it was

[9:07] the city's near bankruptcy while he was

[9:09] mayor that led to his undoing. Robert

[9:12] Hager, NBC News, New York.

[9:15] Everybody in Washington sees financial

[9:17] troubles for the social security system

[9:20] in the future. More obligations than it

[9:22] has money to pay. There are various

[9:24] proposals to fix it. And today the

[9:26] Republicans offered theirs. Raising

[9:29] Social Security taxes in the future. In

[9:32] the next century, raising the age for

[9:35] the full pension to 68, allowing retired

[9:38] people to earn all the money they can.

[9:40] requiring federal employees to pay into

[9:43] Social Security and other changes.

[9:47] For years, Washington regulators have

[9:49] been disturbed because beef cattle are

[9:51] given antibiotics in their feed.

[9:54] Dangerous to consumers, they say. Now,

[9:56] the Food and Drug Administration wants

[9:58] it stopped. Here's Robert Bazelle.

[10:02] Farmers have been routinely feeding

[10:04] penicellin, tetracycling, and other

[10:06] antibiotics to their livestock for more

[10:08] than 20 years. The Food and Drug

[10:10] Administration wants this to stop. Some

[10:13] scientists say this massive use of

[10:15] antibiotics could create a new bacterium

[10:19] resistant to antibiotics that could

[10:21] cause an infection in humans. Such an

[10:23] infection would not be treatable.

[10:26] Bacteria normally live in an animal's

[10:28] gut and eat some of the animals food.

[10:31] The antibiotics, which come in food

[10:33] supplements that are added to the feed,

[10:35] kill these bacteria. As a result, the

[10:38] animals grow fatter on less food. So,

[10:41] the antibiotics mean more money for

[10:44] farmers who are angry about the FDA's

[10:46] action.

[10:48] >> It would put me in a financial hardship

[10:50] where it would cost more to produce the

[10:52] pork and ultimately uh this cost would

[10:55] have to be passed on to consumer in a

[10:58] higher priced uh pork product at the

[11:00] meat counter.

[11:01] >> But the head of the FDA says the risk is

[11:04] just too great. We're creating resistant

[11:07] organisms that may ultimately transfer

[11:10] that resistance to organisms that cause

[11:12] human disease. But do you think the use

[11:14] in animal feeds constitutes a sort of

[11:16] health hazard where there could be a

[11:18] severe epidemic?

[11:19] >> Absolutely.

[11:20] >> It will be at least a year before the

[11:22] FDA restrictions could take effect and a

[11:25] while after that before they could cause

[11:27] meat prices to go up. Robert Bazelle,

[11:30] NBC News, Dal County, Illinois. In Soul,

[11:34] South Korea today, Tongan Park said he

[11:37] thought his indictment on charges of

[11:38] bribing members of the US Congress was

[11:40] unfair and that he would not return to

[11:43] Washington. Besides, he is now being

[11:45] investigated by South Korea. Jim Luri

[11:48] reports from Seoul.

[11:49] >> In a surprise move, the South Korean

[11:51] Justice Ministry ordered Tungsten Park

[11:53] to undergo interrogation at the Chief

[11:55] Prosecutor's Office. Emerging after a

[11:57] three and a half hour session, Park

[11:59] mobbed by reporters, admitted he was

[12:01] under investigation, which he said he

[12:03] welcomed. Informed sources said he could

[12:06] be indicted for money manipulation under

[12:08] Korean law, which would effectively

[12:10] prevent him from going to Washington to

[12:12] stand trial. Park chose to devote

[12:15] special attention to House Speaker

[12:16] Thomas O'Neal, denying he had any

[12:19] special relationship with the

[12:20] congressman.

[12:22] Uh my relationship with him has been uh

[12:27] completely uh social uh nothing else. Uh

[12:31] I have no other relationship except that

[12:34] he is my uh uh friend that I have known

[12:38] socially

[12:39] and any insinuation

[12:42] that I had any other relationship is uh

[12:44] totally untrue.

[12:47] Especially the insinuation that I have

[12:50] used his office for private uh purpose

[12:55] also is not true.

[12:58] >> Informed sources said US embassy efforts

[13:00] to bring Park to trial would continue.

[13:02] Park said he had not been pressured to

[13:04] go to Washington. And now with a Korean

[13:06] investigation underway, it was likely

[13:09] Tungsten Park would be staying in South

[13:11] Korea for some time. Jim Luri, NBC News

[13:14] in Soul.

[13:17] Yesterday, Idi of Uganda was said to be

[13:19] in a coma after minor surgery. Today, he

[13:23] is said to have gone to an island to

[13:24] rest. But before he left, issuing orders

[13:28] to carry out an execution in a public

[13:30] square of 15 Ugandans accused of

[13:34] plotting against him. It was carried out

[13:36] before an audience of thousands. Today,

[13:38] the 15 were blindfolded and shot.

[13:42] Today is the first anniversary of the

[13:44] death of China's Mount Setung and his

[13:47] newly opened tomb in Ping. Today,

[13:49] China's leaders had a ceremony. Here's

[13:52] Jack Reynolds in Hong Kong.

[13:55] Chairman Mao's final resting place is an

[13:57] almost Grecian style building in

[13:59] Tekken's Tennan Men Square, not far from

[14:02] the spot where he proclaimed the

[14:04] founding of the People's Republic in

[14:05] 1949.

[14:08] Today, on the first anniversary of Mao's

[14:10] death, China's newly elected leadership

[14:13] gathered to pay him tribute.

[14:16] >> A crowd of several thousand people heard

[14:18] the new chairman, Hagwong, give a brief

[14:20] speech in which he credited Mao with

[14:22] making China what it is today.

[14:26] The ceremony was carried live on

[14:27] nationwide television. It was brief,

[14:30] almost restrained. Mao's body was not

[14:32] shown.

[14:34] It almost seemed as if the new moderate

[14:36] leadership, while honoring the late

[14:38] chairman, was also trying to lay to rest

[14:41] some of his more extreme revolutionary

[14:43] ideas. Jack Reynolds, NBC News, Hong

[14:46] Kong.

[14:48] >> Kenneth O'Donnell is dead in Boston of

[14:50] an undisclosed illness. He was 53. In

[14:53] 1946, Kenny O'Donnell joined a young

[14:55] Boston politician named John F. Kennedy

[14:58] and stayed with him for 17 years until

[15:00] the assassination. He'll be missed by

[15:02] many friends. David,

[15:05] >> the Navy showed it knew how to deal with

[15:07] traditions, revive old ones, and start

[15:09] new ones. Today, it did both. The old

[15:12] one is to put the seaman back into the

[15:15] old bell bottoms it discarded years ago,

[15:17] only to find that the sailors didn't

[15:19] like it, so that uniform is coming back.

[15:22] The new one announced today is a

[15:24] maternity uniform for officers and

[15:26] enlisted women. It said Navy women will

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[15:32] professional appearance on military duty

[15:35] while they are pregnant.

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[17:17] >> Our segment three this evening.

[17:19] Alcoholism, narcotics, and other

[17:21] addictions are widely discussed,

[17:23] advertised, discussed, and treated. They

[17:26] have clinics and foundations and movie

[17:28] stars putting on teleathons to raise

[17:30] money for them. Another addiction

[17:32] affecting maybe a million people is not

[17:35] so famous. Compulsive gamblers who just

[17:38] can't leave it alone. Here's Don Harris.

[17:41] >> Las Vegas, a cathedral to gambling. A

[17:44] cathedral well attended. Most people

[17:47] gamble. Two out of every three American

[17:50] adults puts a bet down on something.

[17:52] Sometime they gamble on cards,

[17:57] on the throw of dice,

[18:00] the spinning of a wheel, sports, horses.

[18:04] One estimate puts the total betting on

[18:06] horses, legal betting and illegal at $80

[18:09] billion a year. 80 billion. And for most

[18:13] people, it's fun. A day at the races, an

[18:16] evening at cards. For others, the fun is

[18:19] long since gone.

[18:22] The people at this cocktail party in

[18:23] Chicago are losers at gambling. Big

[18:26] losers. Homes broken up, friends gone,

[18:29] huge debts. They are compulsive

[18:32] gamblers. In their own way, they are the

[18:35] alcoholics, the heroin addicts of

[18:37] gambling. There are at least a million

[18:39] more like them in this country. We won't

[18:41] show you their faces because they want

[18:42] to remain anonymous. They're members of

[18:45] Gamblers Anonymous. The average person

[18:48] at this Gamblers Anonymous convention

[18:50] has run up losses of more than $100,000.

[18:54] Many of them are still deeply in debt.

[18:56] Gamblers Anonymous or GA works on three

[18:59] main concepts. Compulsive gamblers must

[19:02] stop gambling. They must stay in what GA

[19:05] believes is good therapy. Addictive

[19:07] gamblers helping other addictive

[19:09] gamblers to quit. They must pay off all

[19:12] debts. To that end, a gambler's assets

[19:15] are taken away from him, so there will

[19:17] be no money left to gamble with.

[19:19] Personal budgets are worked out. This

[19:22] man did a good job of taking it all away

[19:24] from himself. He gambled in the

[19:26] commodities market, went heavily into

[19:27] debt, and lost his business. After 4 and

[19:30] 1/2 years in Gamblers Anonymous, he's

[19:32] back in business, and things are looking

[19:34] far better. I have paid all of my debts.

[19:38] I have gotten myself back on a strong

[19:41] financial footing. Paid back all of your

[19:44] debt. How How much was that?

[19:47] >> That was probably in the neighborhood of

[19:49] $900,000.

[19:54] This man started gambling seriously when

[19:56] he was 9 years old. By the time he was

[19:59] 45, his life was in ruin. He hasn't made

[20:02] a bet of any kind for 14 years.

[20:05] >> Should anyone do to my wife and my son

[20:07] what I did to them, I would kill them.

[20:10] Emotionally disturbing my wife and son,

[20:12] I just polish them off. At what point do

[20:15] you become a compulsive gambler? Are you

[20:18] one? Am I one? The best definition we've

[20:22] been able to find is this. A compulsive

[20:24] gambler is one whose life has become

[20:26] unmanageable.

[20:28] One who uses gambling as a substitute

[20:31] for accomplishment, for social

[20:33] acceptance, for family, even for sex.

[20:38] For a few people who reach the

[20:39] unmanageable stage, there's the Veterans

[20:41] Hospital at Brexville, Ohio. At this

[20:44] hospital, they treat compulsive gambling

[20:46] as a psychiatric disorder, a disorder

[20:49] that will respond to counseling and

[20:51] therapy. But there are only eight beds

[20:54] for compulsive gamblers at the Brexville

[20:56] Veterans Hospital. And it's the only

[20:58] hospital in the nation that offers

[20:59] treatment.

[21:01] This man is a compulsive gambler. He has

[21:04] not gambled for 2 years, 9 months, and 2

[21:07] days. But he says he will never be

[21:09] cured.

[21:10] >> I know what compulsive gambling can do

[21:13] to you. Um,

[21:15] I have known people who have gone

[21:18] insane, people who have committed

[21:20] suicide.

[21:22] Um, I know that they're gambling more

[21:24] than money, even though they don't

[21:26] realize it. To them, they're having

[21:28] enjoyment and fun and recreation. And

[21:30] for 90% or 99% of those people, that's

[21:34] all that will happen. But 1% of them are

[21:37] risking their lives.

[21:39] >> Bob S. lives and works in Las Vegas.

[21:42] Occasionally, he still goes into a

[21:44] casino.

[21:45] >> I like to watch the game,

[21:48] uh, which is dangerous. It's something

[21:50] we're advised not to do. If I watch a

[21:52] game where someone wins a lot of money,

[21:54] I have to walk away from it. I get the

[21:56] feeling that that could be me sitting

[21:58] there. I dreamed the big dreams. I

[22:02] always wanted to buy yachts and two pen

[22:05] houses. As long as the cards are turning

[22:07] and the dice are rolling, that's all I

[22:08] have to worry about. Just the turn of

[22:11] the next card, the roll of the next

[22:12] dice. It makes life very, very simple.

[22:15] >> Even though he hasn't placed a bet in a

[22:17] long time, Bob S says he is not cured.

[22:20] That he has simply learned to control

[22:22] his compulsion that he can never bet

[22:25] again. Like the other members of

[22:27] Gamblers Anonymous, Bob believes that he

[22:29] is now and always will be a compulsive

[22:33] gambler. Don Harris, NBC News.

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[24:16] >> briefly in Washington. The Senate today

[24:18] voted down a Republican plan to provide

[24:20] for a tax cut next year if the economy

[24:23] were to get worse. The Carter

[24:25] administration now says it believes 50

[24:27] members of the Senate will support the

[24:29] new Panama Canal Treaty, 67 needed to

[24:32] ratify. And the Census Bureau says that

[24:34] married couples with college degrees and

[24:37] an income of more than 20,000 a year,

[24:39] are the most likely people to have

[24:41] stable marriages. Chief Justice Warren

[24:44] Burer is in Moscow where he got a

[24:46] balling out today from Lean Brev on the

[24:48] American position on human rights.

[24:50] Burger told Brevan rights isn't his

[24:53] department. David,

[24:55] back in the 60s, some friends of Richard

[24:57] Nixon gave money in his honor to his

[25:00] alma mater, Whittier College in

[25:02] California to set up a Nixon chair for

[25:04] visiting scholars. Well, this year's

[25:07] visiting scholar may not be exactly what

[25:09] they had in mind. Here's Jack Perkins.

[25:13] >> Oh, that murder.

[25:14] >> He is an artist and certainly a man of

[25:16] scholarly demeanor.

[25:19] But Paul Conrad, editorial cartoonist

[25:22] for the Los Angeles Times, is also the

[25:25] man who did this. Nixon as the spiderweb

[25:29] in which others, Erlickman, McGrder,

[25:31] Dean, found themselves entangled.

[25:34] And this, one of Conrad's own favorites,

[25:36] Nixon as Shakespeare's King Richard,

[25:39] declaiming, "Oh, that I were as great as

[25:42] my grief or lesser than my name."

[25:46] Relentlessly for years, Conrad has

[25:48] cartoon crucified Nixon and now to be

[25:51] named Nixon's scholar. Paul, what was

[25:54] your first reaction when you heard about

[25:56] this? Disbelief.

[25:58] He wasn't the only one. Quittier College

[26:01] for making the choice took flack.

[26:04] Uh there have been some negative

[26:06] comments made that um we ought not to

[26:09] have someone who uh represents a a very

[26:12] very divergent view evidently uh from uh

[26:16] the former President Nixon holding a

[26:18] chair that was really established in his

[26:20] honor. A few years ago, Conrad was on

[26:22] the White House enemies list, but now

[26:24] he's on campus as the Nixon Scholar. And

[26:27] if a student should ask, does he accept

[26:29] any credit or blame for Nixon's

[26:31] downfall? Oh, I wouldn't uh I wouldn't I

[26:34] wouldn't claim the credit and I don't

[26:36] think there's any blame involved. I

[26:38] would say that I did my job as a

[26:41] journalist. Now, as to whether a

[26:45] downfall of a president resulted, that's

[26:47] something else. Well, the other day

[26:50] Nixon was quoted as having said there

[26:51] might not have been a Watergate if it

[26:53] hadn't been for the late Martha

[26:54] Mitchell. So, this was Conrad's latest.

[26:58] And it's an irony, but is it a

[26:59] coincidence that he drew this cartoon

[27:02] the very same day he gave his first

[27:04] lecture from the Nixon chair?

[27:07] Jack Perkins, NBC News, Los Angeles.

[27:11] It's Friday. Thank you. And good night

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[27:15] >> John Hart will be here tomorrow. Have a

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