NBC Nightly News - 1982-06-28

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[0:06] This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Broco

[0:09] in New York and Roger Mud in Washington.

[0:12] >> Good evening. Labor Secretary Raymond

[0:14] Donovan said this afternoon he has been

[0:17] vindicated. The federal government

[0:19] special prosecutor says there was not

[0:20] enough credible evidence to warrant or

[0:23] successfully maintain a criminal

[0:25] prosecution of Donovan. Here's James

[0:27] Poke. Donovan was applauded by his staff

[0:30] at a Labor Department news conference.

[0:36] I am extremely pleased and

[0:40] certainly not surprised

[0:43] that the special prosecutor

[0:45] has confirmed

[0:47] what I have told you all along that none

[0:53] of these allegations would prove to be

[0:57] true.

[0:58] Special prosecutor Leon Silverman spent

[1:01] half a year looking into charges of ties

[1:03] between organized crime and Donovan's

[1:05] New Jersey Construction Company.

[1:07] >> The investigation was as thorough as we

[1:10] could make it. There was developed

[1:13] insufficient credible evidence to

[1:16] warrant a prosecution of Secretary

[1:18] Donovan on any charge.

[1:21] >> The report ran over a thousand pages.

[1:23] There were credit card records and sworn

[1:25] denials to dispute the story of this

[1:27] union dissident, Mario Montoro, who said

[1:29] he saw Donovan sit in on a company

[1:31] payoff to a union boss. The finding, no

[1:34] evidence that a payoff lunchon ever took

[1:36] place. An FBI informer said he picked up

[1:39] kickbacks from Donovan for a mob

[1:40] hoodlum. The finding, no evidence the

[1:42] man even met Donovan. Donovan's name was

[1:45] mentioned by others on an FBI wire tap

[1:47] at this warehouse owned by a mob figure.

[1:49] The finding, no evidence of any improper

[1:52] dealings by Donovan. Only one question

[1:54] is left. The murder of a minor witness

[1:56] from the mob, Fred Fino, whose body was

[1:59] found in a car trunk after he testified

[2:00] before the grand jury. Fino had denied

[2:03] knowing Donovan. The report said a lie

[2:05] detector test showed Fino was lying.

[2:08] Silverman has asked the FBI to

[2:09] investigate the murder. At the White

[2:11] House, aids are being careful going over

[2:13] the report with a fine tooth comb.

[2:15] Insiders say Donovan will probably get

[2:17] to keep his job provided nothing harmful

[2:19] is found in the report. President Reagan

[2:22] telephoned Donovan to tell him he is

[2:24] extremely pleased. James Pulk, NBC News,

[2:28] Washington. The legal fees in the

[2:30] Donovan investigation will probably

[2:32] exceed a million dollars. Leon

[2:34] Silverman's firm will charge the federal

[2:36] government at least 500,000 and Donovan

[2:39] and his former company will get a bill

[2:40] for at least 500,000. Huh?

[2:44] If you have a lowinterest mortgage on

[2:46] your home from a federal savings and

[2:48] loan and you hope to use that mortgage

[2:50] as a come- on for prospective buyers,

[2:52] you'll not be very happy with a ruling

[2:54] from the Supreme Court today. It said

[2:56] you can't pass along such a mortgage.

[2:58] Carl Stern explains

[3:01] the depressed real estate market may be

[3:03] even more depressed after today's

[3:05] ruling. The court said federal savings

[3:07] and loan associations can prevent

[3:09] sellers from passing along older, less

[3:11] expensive mortgages, overturning

[3:13] statutes and court rulings in 18 states.

[3:16] About half the nation's SNLs are

[3:18] federally chartered. Reg and Margaret

[3:21] Delawquester are now going to have to

[3:22] renegotiate at current interest rates a

[3:25] mortgage on property they bought that

[3:27] had been 9 and a4%.

[3:29] >> I'd say estimating 20% of the people in

[3:32] the US are affected by this. A lot of

[3:35] people don't realize it. They don't

[3:36] realize it until they go to buy a

[3:38] property or uh if they own a property

[3:40] and they go to sell.

[3:42] >> Banks such as the one that Delaquest has

[3:44] dealt with have been losing about 6

[3:46] cents on the mortgage dollar because of

[3:48] old loans. Savings and loan officials

[3:50] say closing out old mortgages when

[3:52] property changes hands will ultimately

[3:54] make more money available without

[3:56] charging new borrowers more to offset

[3:58] old, less profitable loans. Had we had

[4:01] this during the last 5 years, our

[4:03] earnings would have been up 40% as an

[4:06] industry from where they were. And if we

[4:09] had had that income, we would have been

[4:12] able to make more loans at lower rates

[4:15] than we're currently doing. The only

[4:17] relief for home sellers and buyers could

[4:19] come if Congress guaranteed the right of

[4:21] sellers to pass along mortgages with

[4:23] lower interest rates. But the banker's

[4:25] lobby seems far too powerful here for

[4:27] that to happen. Carl Stern, NBC News,

[4:31] Washington.

[4:32] >> The high court also ruled today that

[4:34] Congress must come up with a new federal

[4:36] bankruptcy law that doesn't give

[4:38] bankruptcy judges the wide power that

[4:40] they now have. And the court in a 6-3

[4:42] decision said that public schools are

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[5:58] >> In Beirut, the PLO continues to promise

[6:00] a fight to the death. But now, Lebanese

[6:02] officials are saying that the

[6:03] Palestinians are secretly trying to

[6:05] negotiate safe passage from the city,

[6:08] which is at the mercy of Israeli guns.

[6:10] For the second straight day, the

[6:12] Israelis have dropped leaflets onto

[6:14] Beirut, warning residents that time is

[6:16] growing short. Here's Steve Mallalerie.

[6:20] Belongings packed on top of cars,

[6:22] crowded Beirut streets. Families packed

[6:26] up, taking the Israeli warning

[6:28] seriously. The leaflets urged civilians

[6:30] to leave for their own safety. The

[6:34] streets leading to the Christian areas

[6:35] of Lebanon were crowded with people

[6:37] leaving.

[6:39] Hundreds of cars passed from the

[6:40] predominantly Muslim side of Beirut to

[6:42] the Christian areas to safety.

[6:45] Even the British embassy staff packed up

[6:47] today, closing their embassy in West

[6:50] Beirut to reopen a skeleton operation on

[6:52] the other side.

[6:55] The fear in West Beirut is that the

[6:57] Israelis will use any pretext to attack

[6:59] the Palestinians. The Israeli military

[7:01] presence in Lebanon is immense.

[7:04] Palestinian officials believe the

[7:05] Israelis will make one last attempt to

[7:07] crush the PLO despite Israeli denials.

[7:11] The Israelis came all the way to Beirut

[7:13] to destroy us. A PLO spokesman said. So

[7:16] why should they stop now? Only the

[7:18] Americans can stop them. He said,

[7:20] "Maybe."

[7:22] With all the defiance and bitter words,

[7:25] it has been the Lebanese and Palestinian

[7:27] civilians who have lost the most. People

[7:30] still return to their bombed out homes

[7:31] to salvage what they can. They fear that

[7:34] if they wait until tomorrow, there may

[7:36] be nothing left. Steve Mallalerie, NBC

[7:39] News, Beirut.

[7:42] At the Vatican today, Pope John Paul

[7:44] offered to go to Lebanon to seek an end

[7:46] to this war. Today's offer came just one

[7:48] day after the Pope made a public appeal

[7:50] for what he called the just recognition

[7:52] of Palestinian rights. Roger.

[7:56] Ever since Israel was created in 1948,

[7:59] there's been a strong pro-Israeli lobby

[8:01] in the United States. But the Israeli

[8:02] invasion of Lebanon has now galvanized

[8:04] the Arab community here. Both new and

[8:07] established Arab groups are trying to

[8:09] pressure the Congress and the media to

[8:10] be more sympathetic to the Arab cause.

[8:12] Steve Delaney reports.

[8:16] There have been so many civilians killed

[8:17] and injured in the fighting in Lebanon

[8:19] that USIsraeli relations have been

[8:20] strained and Arab Americans are making

[8:23] progress in a new effort to pressure

[8:24] Congress and the administration to make

[8:26] Israel ease up in Lebanon. Nua

[8:28] Alhajayan, the Saudi ambassador's wife

[8:31] on the Today program talking about

[8:32] Israeli excesses. One should not address

[8:35] a problem by just killing people.

[8:38] >> Mrs. Elhayan's Arab Women's Council

[8:40] hired Robert Gray and Associates, an

[8:41] agency with close ties to President

[8:43] Reagan, to produce radio ads like this

[8:45] one on WRC in Washington.

[8:47] >> Do you know that the International Red

[8:49] Cross in Beirut reported over 600,000

[8:51] Palestinians and Lebanese were left

[8:52] homeless by the Israeli invasion?

[8:55] >> Until last week, none of that seemed to

[8:56] be working. But then Manakim began

[8:58] blistered at a closed meeting with

[9:00] senators and the administration split

[9:02] over how much freedom Israel should have

[9:03] in its effort to destroy the PLO. Former

[9:06] Senator James Abberes, a Lebanese

[9:07] American, says Alexander Heg's departure

[9:10] may have been accelerated by his

[9:11] reported unwillingness to reign in the

[9:13] Israelis.

[9:14] >> That was creating a lot of political

[9:16] problems for the White House. And I

[9:17] think that was part of why Heg

[9:20] eventually resigned under pressure from

[9:21] the White House.

[9:22] >> Over the weekend, there was a Washington

[9:24] party to raise money for victims of the

[9:26] fighting. A thousand well-dressed people

[9:27] turned up for Lebanese peasant food, no

[9:30] alcohol, and a rendition of the Lebanese

[9:32] national anthem.

[9:39] >> It is now acceptable on Capitol Hill to

[9:41] suggest that the Bean government has

[9:42] squandered the moral advantage which

[9:44] Israel has always claimed in its special

[9:46] relationship with the US. And the newly

[9:48] effective Arab lobbyists, many of them

[9:50] Lebanese Americans, are encouraging that

[9:52] kind of criticism both here and at the

[9:54] White House. Steve Delaney, NBC News,

[9:57] Washington.

[9:58] >> But many members of the Congress

[9:59] hesitate to alienate the powerful Jewish

[10:02] lobby by rallying to the Arab side.

[10:04] Congressman Nick Ray Hall of West

[10:05] Virginia introduced a resolution two

[10:07] weeks ago that would suspend arm sales

[10:09] to Israel if the arms were used for

[10:11] aggressive purposes. So far, only 13

[10:14] members have signed the resolution.

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[11:52] >> The outgoing Secretary of State

[11:54] Alexander Heg is giving his staff a

[11:56] goodbye party this evening. He will take

[11:58] a long Fourth of July holiday and then

[12:00] will vacate his big State Department

[12:02] office when he returns. Meanwhile, most

[12:05] of Washington still is trying to piece

[12:06] together the reasons for Heg's sudden

[12:08] fall from power andor grace. Here's

[12:11] Marvin Cal. Since Friday, Heg has told

[12:14] friends he'd been entrapped by the White

[12:16] House into resigning and stunned by the

[12:18] president's quick acceptance. The

[12:20] mockers on the road were clear, but hey

[12:22] surprisingly did not see them. As

[12:25] reconstructed today, Hey demanded the

[12:27] resignation of UN Ambassador Gene

[12:29] Kirkpatre, but on Memorial Day, she

[12:31] conferred with both National Security

[12:33] Adviser William Clark and the president,

[12:36] after which he was told she would be

[12:38] staying. During the president's trip to

[12:41] Western Europe, when the Lebanon crisis

[12:43] erupted, Heg wanted to visit Israel, but

[12:46] presidential envoy Hhabib, who was

[12:47] already there, objected strenuously.

[12:50] Clark sided with Hhabib and blocked a

[12:52] Hague visit. In addition, Heg is

[12:55] described as irritated that Vice

[12:57] President Bush is supposed to have told

[12:58] the Saudis that the US had assurances

[13:01] Israel would not attack Beirut. In Heg's

[13:03] view, that gave the PLO a reason to hold

[13:05] out and more people were killed. And if

[13:08] Israel did attack Beirut, Bush said the

[13:10] US would order sanctions against Israel.

[13:13] But the vice president tonight threw a

[13:14] spokesman flatly deny that. Finally, Heg

[13:17] objected to the stiffening of US

[13:19] opposition to the Soviet gas pipeline

[13:21] deal, but his appeal was overruled by

[13:23] Clark. Again, Heg felt his authority

[13:26] sharply eroded. From now on, in Heg's

[13:29] view, foreign policy will be made and

[13:31] run out of the White House with George

[13:33] Schultz following Clark's lead. Marvin

[13:35] Calb, NBC News. The State Department.

[13:38] >> There are no clues yet as to how long

[13:40] George Schultz will need before he's

[13:42] ready to replace Heg. His Senate

[13:43] hearings will not begin for at least 2

[13:45] weeks. Between now and then, Schultz

[13:47] presumably will be severing his

[13:49] connections with the Beal Construction

[13:51] Company. Irving Arlavine reports.

[13:55] >> George Schulz on the job for Beal, the

[13:58] giant construction firm. 12% of its

[14:00] business in the Middle East, $20 billion

[14:03] in current projects in Saudi Arabia, an

[14:06] entire new city called Jubel to house

[14:09] 300,000 people, the King Khaled

[14:11] International Airport at Riad. In Egypt,

[14:14] a major power plant in Kuwait, a natural

[14:17] gas storage project. As president of

[14:20] Bectal, Schultz oversaw these projects

[14:23] as well as projects in Latin America and

[14:25] Asia. Will this affect Schulz's policies

[14:28] as Secretary of State? Fellow

[14:30] businessman and friend, Commerce

[14:32] Secretary Baldridge,

[14:34] >> he'll bring an understanding of the Arab

[14:36] world here.

[14:37] >> But Baldridge adds,

[14:39] >> uh, if you're a person of integrity, you

[14:42] are going to give the president the best

[14:44] possible advice.

[14:45] >> But some Israel supporters are worried.

[14:47] >> There will be one point of view between

[14:49] state and defense, and that point of

[14:52] view will be anti-Israel. Israeli

[14:56] supporters point to a pre-election

[14:58] Reagan speech with down the line backing

[15:00] for Israel and the Schultz reaction said

[15:03] Schulz. If I have any differences with

[15:05] Reagan, it's about Middle Eastern

[15:07] policy.

[15:09] Schulz is also known to disagree with

[15:11] the president's stand against allowing

[15:13] American companies to supply machinery

[15:16] for the Soviet natural gas pipeline to

[15:18] Western Europe. But team player Schultz

[15:20] will go along with the president in

[15:23] public at least. Irving R. Lavine, NBC

[15:26] News, Washington.

[15:29] >> Space Shuttle 4, now in the second day

[15:30] of its seven-day flight, is not a

[15:32] trouble-free mission. Today, the orbiter

[15:34] Colombia went through some unexpected

[15:36] pitch and roll motions and then

[15:38] straightened itself out. And as Roy Neil

[15:40] reports tonight, the astronauts seem to

[15:42] be having some trouble with their secret

[15:44] military cargo.

[15:46] >> And now you can take it off and OEX

[15:48] power off. And

[15:49] >> Ken Mattingley and Henry Hartzfield look

[15:51] like a couple of airline pilots in this

[15:53] tape recording. they sent back this

[15:55] afternoon. They also showed live

[15:57] pictures of a prototype space factory

[15:59] for processing chemicals. It's working.

[16:02] The astronauts did not show or talk much

[16:04] about the secret Air Force cargo they're

[16:06] carrying, but they seem to be having

[16:08] some problems when they talk cryptically

[16:10] to Air Force mission control.

[16:12] >> Columbia, this is Sunnyale. How do you

[16:14] read?

[16:15] Clear.

[16:16] >> We would uh like you to go to panel L11

[16:21] and watch the cover and its open LED.

[16:25] This is Sunnyale, the Air Force mission

[16:27] control center in California. The one

[16:29] the public never hears about, although

[16:32] it's controlled all military space

[16:33] flights for nearly 20 years.

[16:36] >> The secret payload aboard the Colombia

[16:38] is not that much of a secret. This Air

[16:40] Force drawing shows a unit called

[16:42] Cirrus, a super cold infrared device

[16:44] with a telescope. It's mounted in the

[16:46] cargo hold back near the cabin. So, you

[16:49] will not see this kind of shot on this

[16:51] flight. The device has been described

[16:54] publicly in Congress. It'll scan the

[16:56] horizon and in the future should be able

[16:58] to detect the heat of rocket engines.

[17:00] It's secret now only because it's on the

[17:03] Colombia and military officials won't

[17:05] talk about it. Tomorrow, the astronauts

[17:08] will continue their experiments,

[17:09] military and civilian, and they'll

[17:11] televise the space around the Colombia,

[17:13] looking for contamination that might

[17:15] have been thrown off by the spacecraft.

[17:18] Roy Neil, NBC News, in Houston.

[17:21] The investigation into actor John

[17:22] Belalushi's death may be reopened

[17:24] because the person who was with him

[17:26] before he died reportedly has said that

[17:28] she was responsible for the death. Los

[17:30] Angeles District Attorney asked police

[17:32] to look into a National Inquirer article

[17:34] by Kathy Smith saying that she gave him

[17:36] a shot of heroin and cocaine. She is now

[17:39] living in Canada. And California

[17:41] officials said today that live male

[17:44] Mediterranean fruit fly found in the

[17:46] Sanwaqin Valley last week may be the

[17:49] lone survivor of the $82 million

[17:51] eradication program in that state. While

[17:54] there's no documentation for this kind

[17:55] of thing, if that's true, that's one

[17:57] tough fruit fly.

[18:03] We got to peel all this corn.

[18:05] >> You don't peel corn, you shuck it.

[18:07] >> Like you shuck a banana.

[18:08] >> Just shuck and hush.

[18:10] >> Here comes a corny picture.

[18:14] >> Beautiful. Look at the corn silk kid.

[18:16] >> That's me shucking my life away.

[18:18] >> Polaroids pictures are little

[18:19] celebrations of life. It's fun to see

[18:21] yourself while you're just being

[18:22] yourself. You miss that with pictures

[18:24] you have to get developed.

[18:25] >> They're going to miss me at third base.

[18:27] Yeah, but you're learning a profession.

[18:30] >> Great day to shoot a pack.

[18:33] >> How do the vitamins in these cereals

[18:34] compare with totals?

[18:36] >> I don't know.

[18:37] >> This shield shows total has 100% of a

[18:39] day's allowance of nine vitamins and

[18:41] iron.

[18:42] >> Okay,

[18:42] >> put total shield on your cereal to

[18:44] compare vitamins.

[18:45] >> I eat shredded wheat.

[18:49] >> 8%. Total's a lot higher. But how's it

[18:52] taste?

[18:53] >> Crisp flakes of whole grain wheat. M AND

[18:59] 100% of nine vitamins. That's the total

[19:02] difference.

[19:03] >> What makes the taste of Paul Mason

[19:05] Shabli worth a little more? Time and

[19:08] care. It's worth waiting for the right

[19:11] time to pick our grapes to make a shabi

[19:13] that's smooth and flavorful. It's worth

[19:16] handling our grapes with extra care to

[19:18] make a shabi that's consistently

[19:20] delicious. Time and care. Two

[19:23] ingredients that make the taste of Paul

[19:24] Mason Shabli worth a little more. Paul

[19:27] Massan said it nearly a century ago. We

[19:30] will sell no wine before it's time.

[19:33] Start. The strategic arms reduction

[19:36] talks begin tomorrow in Geneva in an

[19:38] atmosphere of heightened tension between

[19:40] the US and the Soviet Union and a time

[19:42] of increasing fears of a nuclear

[19:44] confrontation. In tonight's special

[19:45] segment, Robert Bazelle looks at some of

[19:47] the issues the arms negotiators will

[19:49] face.

[19:51] >> With the United States and the Soviet

[19:53] Union each able to destroy the other's

[19:55] population many times over, how could

[19:57] either side be ahead in the nuclear arms

[19:59] race? The millions of people

[20:01] demonstrating for a nuclear weapons

[20:03] freeze of some kind have been asking

[20:04] that question. Public opinion polls show

[20:07] that most Americans agree with the

[20:09] demonstrators. The Reagan administration

[20:11] is against a freeze because officials

[20:13] say the Russians are ahead.

[20:16] >> If we froze at existing levels, giving

[20:18] the Soviets superiority in landbased

[20:21] systems, giving the Soviet superiority

[20:22] in intermediate range systems, then the

[20:24] Soviets would have no incentives to

[20:26] negotiate reductions.

[20:28] >> The administration argues that

[20:30] superiority is determined not by

[20:32] numbers, but by what each side's weapons

[20:34] can do. This is a guidance system.

[20:37] Together with a computer, this device

[20:39] directs a missile from its hole in the

[20:41] ground to a tiny target on the other

[20:43] side of the Earth. In 1978, American

[20:46] intelligence services concluded that the

[20:48] Soviets improved their guidance system,

[20:50] making Soviet missiles more accurate.

[20:52] That discovery was the basis for many of

[20:54] the statements about Soviet superiority.

[20:57] American military planners are concerned

[20:59] that right now we could lose a nuclear

[21:01] war. Here is the scenario which they say

[21:04] could lead to a Soviet victory. The

[21:07] Soviets launch some of their missiles

[21:09] without warning. The prime targets are

[21:12] our land-based missiles, this Minute Man

[21:14] and 1,51 others. These are kept in silos

[21:18] behind thick walls. But because of the

[21:20] improved guidance systems, the Soviet

[21:22] missiles could hit the silos squarely

[21:24] and possibly knock out most of our

[21:26] land-based missiles. That first attack

[21:29] lasting a few minutes would kill 2 to 20

[21:32] million Americans. American missiles on

[21:35] submarines and bombs on airplanes would

[21:37] not be destroyed, but those are not

[21:39] accurate enough to hit Soviet missile

[21:40] silos, so they are aimed at cities. And

[21:43] then the United States president would

[21:45] be left with a very, very difficult

[21:47] choice. He would have to order a strike

[21:50] not against Soviet land-based systems

[21:52] because we wouldn't have that capability

[21:53] in such a circumstance, but he would

[21:55] have to destroy Soviet civilians. And

[21:58] that's a terrible dilemma.

[22:00] >> The dilemma would be that the president

[22:02] would know that if he ordered a

[22:03] retaliation, it would kill more than 100

[22:06] million Soviet citizens. In return, the

[22:08] Soviets would hit our cities, killing

[22:10] more than 100 million Americans. So the

[22:13] thinking goes, he might do nothing after

[22:15] the first attack and the Soviets would

[22:17] have won. The planners say we must

[22:19] consider the possibility that the

[22:20] Soviets would launch such a first

[22:22] strike, even though they have said they

[22:24] never would. I don't know whether they

[22:26] would, but they would. Let me say we'd

[22:28] have to be careful because if they

[22:29] wanted to, they could uh they could do a

[22:31] better job than we could.

[22:33] >> Dr. Richard Dauer, the chief of research

[22:35] in the Pentagon, says that if the

[22:37] Soviets did attack, their leaders would

[22:39] survive in underground bunkers, even

[22:41] though millions of ordinary citizens

[22:43] would die.

[22:44] >> And so, in their view, the Soviet Union

[22:46] would would still exist after the

[22:49] exchange.

[22:50] >> Just bizarre, unreal.

[22:53] >> Dr. George Rathens of MIT, a former

[22:55] Pentagon consultant, is one of many arms

[22:58] control experts who say we needn't worry

[23:00] about a Soviet first strike.

[23:02] >> The consequences to them of of such an

[23:06] attack uh would would just be awful to

[23:09] to contemplate. I can't imagine a Soviet

[23:12] leadership

[23:14] trying that nor an American leadership

[23:16] trying it in the reverse situation. But

[23:19] concern over the possibility of such an

[23:21] attack is what prompted the Reagan

[23:22] administration and the Carter

[23:24] administration before it to build the MX

[23:26] missile and try to find ways to shield

[23:29] it from Soviet strikes. The MX is a

[23:32] powerful and accurate missile and many

[23:34] arms control advocates say it will

[23:35] actually increase the chances of nuclear

[23:38] war.

[23:38] >> The MX is a first strike weapon. And the

[23:40] MX uh has the capability because of its

[23:43] power and accuracy to destroy Soviet

[23:46] land-based missiles. And if the Soviets

[23:49] have that capability and we have that

[23:51] capability, that means in a period of

[23:53] crisis,

[23:55] each side will think the other side is

[23:56] going to fire first. It puts a hair

[23:58] trigger on the nuclear weapons on both

[24:01] sides.

[24:04] >> Even without the MX, the United States

[24:06] has the capability to destroy Soviet

[24:08] society. As the latest talks on

[24:11] strategic weapons limitations begin, the

[24:13] administration is arguing that that is

[24:15] not enough. That to have security, we

[24:18] need even more weapons.

[24:21] Robert Bazelle, NBC News, Washington.

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[25:59] >> Great Britain's newest prince has a

[26:01] name. In fact, four of them and George,

[26:04] the leading choice of London bookies,

[26:06] didn't even make the finals. More from

[26:08] Bob Jameson.

[26:09] >> He is now called William Arthur Philip

[26:11] Louie or just plain Prince William of

[26:14] Wales. But never, Buckingham Palace

[26:16] said, will he ever be called Billy.

[26:18] Second in line to the British throne, he

[26:20] is destined to become the fifth King

[26:21] William, if when he grows up he likes

[26:23] his name. The first was William the

[26:25] Conqueror, whose arrival in England nine

[26:27] centuries ago was as momentous. He won

[26:30] the crown by winning the Battle of

[26:31] Hastings in 1066.

[26:33] The most recent was William IV, who

[26:35] never planned on being king and had 10

[26:37] illegitimate children, but by the same

[26:39] woman, a certain Mrs. Jordan. He reigned

[26:42] from 1830 to 1837 and was succeeded by

[26:45] his niece Victoria. But the name William

[26:48] was probably chosen for this man,

[26:50] William Prince of Gloucester, killed 10

[26:52] years ago at age 30 in an airplane race,

[26:54] a close friend of Prince Charles. Louie

[26:56] is for Charles favorite uncle, Lord

[26:58] Louie Mountbatton, killed by the Irish

[27:00] Republican Army in 1979. Philip for the

[27:03] infant's grandfather, the Queen's

[27:04] Consort. And how about Arthur? No, not

[27:06] the one from

[27:07] >> Camel. Prince Charles has Arthur in his

[27:09] name, and so did George V 6th. And the

[27:11] Queen's godfather, Arthur, Duke of

[27:13] Connor, one of Queen Victoria's sons,

[27:15] was in fact in his turn a godson of

[27:17] Arthur Duke of Wellington, the great

[27:18] Duke of Wellington. And that's really

[27:19] where the name came back. London

[27:21] bookmakers did big business during the

[27:23] week of suspense and speculation over

[27:25] the little prince's name. George was the

[27:27] favorite at even money. William had been

[27:29] a 16 to1 long shot until late last week

[27:31] when the odds moved to 7 to2. But the

[27:34] bookmakaker's business may be just

[27:35] beginning. The tradition here is that

[27:37] the prince when crowned king may choose

[27:39] William Arthur, Philip or Louie or

[27:42] exercising his royal prerogative another

[27:44] name altogether. Bob Jameson, NBC News,

[27:46] London.

[27:48] Already any number of businesses are

[27:50] trying to cash in on the birth of the

[27:51] prince. Today, a Scottish distillery

[27:53] announced that it is laying down 100

[27:56] casks of Highland malt whiskey to be

[27:59] bottled for young William in the year

[28:01] 2000 when he's 18. I guess if it's a

[28:04] prince, you can't announce that you're

[28:05] just laying aside a six-pack. That's

[28:07] Nightly News for this Monday night. I'm

[28:09] Tom Bro in New York.

[28:11] >> And I'm Roger Mud in Washington. Good

[28:12] night from all of us at NBC News.

[28:25] Monday, Mr. Edward's son dies in an

[28:27] accident, but Charles discovers evidence

[28:29] that it may have been murder.

[28:31] >> And they kill him for that

[28:32] >> little house. Then she's a glamorous

[28:34] reporter with a deadly secret buried in

[28:36] her past. Stalked by a mysterious figure

[28:38] who's out to drive her insane. Midnight

[28:41] Lace. It all happens Monday on NBC.

[28:46] Coming up in just a minute on the scene

[28:48] at 6, a flap over a Florida convict's

[28:50] visits to his seriously ill son at

[28:52] Vanderbilt Hospital. And more on the

[28:54] controversy over attempts by Mahari

[28:56] Medical College to gain access to local

[28:58] hospitals.

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