World News Tonight (ABC) - 1982-12-21
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[0:02] [music]
[0:05] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:09] [music] with Peter Jennings, Max
[0:11] Robinson, and from our desk in
[0:13] Washington, Frank Reynolds. Good evening
[0:16] from Yuri and Dropoff, the new Soviet
[0:18] leader. A counter proposal today on
[0:20] nuclear arms reduction and a challenge
[0:23] to the United States. At our foreign
[0:25] desk in London, here is Peter Jennings.
[0:27] Peter
[0:28] >> Frank the offer came today during a
[0:30] major speech by the new Soviet leader
[0:31] Yuri Andropov. It was made at a large
[0:33] gathering of world communist leaders to
[0:35] mark the 60th anniversary of the Soviet
[0:37] state. This is the first big speech that
[0:40] Mr. Andropov has made which reflects his
[0:42] leadership of the Soviet Union and not
[0:44] Leonard Brevs. As ABC's Bob Zelnik
[0:47] reports, he was speaking to many
[0:48] audiences and there were ambiguities.
[0:52] Andropov said the Soviets are prepared
[0:54] to limit their nuclear missile forces in
[0:57] Europe to the combined nuclear arsenals
[0:59] of Britain and France about 160 weapons
[1:02] and for the first time he agreed to deal
[1:04] separately with medium-range bombers.
[1:06] The US could keep some aircraft carriers
[1:09] in the region but overall Soviet and
[1:11] NATO plane numbers would be equal.
[1:13] Androp did not say whether the term in
[1:16] Europe means all medium-range missiles
[1:18] able to reach Western Europe or only
[1:20] those Soviet missiles actually based
[1:23] west of the Euros. But at its best, his
[1:25] proposal could cut in half the number of
[1:27] advanced Soviet missiles now targeted on
[1:30] Europe. And it could mean big cutbacks
[1:32] in the Soviet bomber force of more than
[1:35] 3,000 planes. Under Preside