CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE {OIL SHORTAGE} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of nightly news programs anchored by Walter Cronkite. Coverage includes the following: Robert Pierpoint on President Jimmy Carter's meeting with advisors on the oil shortage, and Sen. Howard Baker's (R-Tenn.) criticism of Carter's energy policy; Ed Rabel on a meeting in Tampa, Florida, among energy officials opposed to Carter's plan to close gas stations on weekends; Ike Pappas on the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and Defense Secretary Harold Brown's meeting with Egyptian Minister Kamel Hassan Ali; Bob Simon on the Israeli cabinet's vote to accept the treaty; Marvin Kalb on Zbigniew Brzezinski's trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia; Bruce Hall on the DDT contamination of fish in Triana, Alabama, and Mayor Clyde Foster on the high levels of DDT in residents of Triana, Alabama; Robert Schakne on the Justice Department's plan to seek an indictment of Carter crony Bert Lance from an Atlanta grand jury for misapplication of bank funds; and the U.S. Court of Appeals' dismissal of a contempt citation against Attorney General Griffin Bell for refusing to reveal FBI sources in a suit brought by the Socialist Workers Party. In part one of a special report on "The Arms Race: Deadly Dilemma," Jed Duvall covers several topics, including the first agreement between the U.S. and Soviet Union to control arms in 1963; SALT II; John F. Kennedy in 1963 on the Test Ban Treaty; Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signing the first SALT treaty in Moscow in 1972; Nixon's address to Congress on SALT I; Kissinger's claim that despite SALT I, the U.S. accelerated defense programs like the Trident submarine and the B-1, and started the cruise missile and MX; and arms researcher Frank Barnaby on the impression the U.S. and Soviet Union convey to the world about the political value of nuclear weapons. Commercials included.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: March 19, 1979 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:36
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T81:0198
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Arms control; Cold war; Communism - 1979; Egypt - Foreign relations - Israel; Energy conservation; Israel - Foreign relations - Egypt; Pesticides; Socialist Workers Party; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT); Triana, Alabama; U S - Defenses; U S - Foreign relations - U S S R; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1962-1981
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - First Alert smoke detector
- TV - Commercials - Miller Light beer
CREDITS
- Sanford Socolow … Executive Producer
- David F. Horwitz … Producer
- Sam Roberts … Producer
- John Armstrong … Producer
- H. Richard Mutschler … Director
- Walter Cronkite … Anchor
- Robert Pierpoint … Reporter
- Ed Rabel … Reporter
- Ike Pappas … Reporter
- Bob Simon … Reporter
- Marvin Kalb … Reporter
- Robert Shakne … Reporter
- Jed Duvall … Reporter
- William Conrad … Talent
- Rodney Dangerfield … Talent
- Kamel Hassan Ali
- Howard Baker
- Frank Barnaby
- Griffin Bell
- Leonid I. Brezhnev
- Harold Brown
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Jimmy Carter
- Clyde Foster
- John F. Kennedy
- Henry Kissinger
- Bert Lance
- Richard M. Nixon