NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-14
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:08] This is NBC Nightly News reporting from
[0:11] New York. Jessica Savage.
[0:13] >> Good evening. The Reagan administration
[0:15] confirmed today that it has come up with
[0:17] a broader peace plan for the Middle
[0:19] East. And in addition, Washington
[0:21] appears confident it can gain acceptance
[0:24] of a plan to resolve the more immediate
[0:26] crisis, getting the PLO out of Beirut.
[0:28] Fred Francis reports now from the State
[0:31] Department.
[0:34] >> Secretary George Schultz returned from
[0:36] his meeting with President Reagan,
[0:37] saying that an agreement to end the
[0:39] battle for Beirut should be nailed down
[0:41] by next week. Schultz and the president,
[0:43] as seen in this photograph released by
[0:45] the White House, have had two strategy
[0:47] sessions in two days to discuss what
[0:49] comes after Beirut. saying that the
[0:52] Palestinian question was very much on
[0:54] the president's mind. The secretary
[0:56] confirmed that the two were formulating
[0:58] a broader plan for peace in the Middle
[1:00] East. While he would not go into the
[1:02] details of that new plan, it is known
[1:04] that the secretary will attempt to
[1:06] resurrect from the rubble of Beirut a
[1:08] new initiative to get the Palestinian
[1:10] autonomy talks back on track. Schultz
[1:14] talked about how the pictures of war
[1:15] called for an urgent solution. We've all
[1:19] seen the pictures and been affected by
[1:21] it. And as the president has said many
[1:24] times, when you look at that and you see
[1:27] the symbol of this war is a baby with
[1:29] its arms shot off and you have to say to
[1:32] yourself, there's got to be something
[1:33] better in the Middle East. And that's
[1:35] what the president is tryi