– CBS World News Roundup – November 14, 1978 – Gordon SKene Sound Collection –
All eyes were on Camp David this week, as President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hammered out what was to be a historic peace settlement in the Middle-East.
In an emotional plea for compromise, President Carter said that it would be “horrible” if Israel and Egypt failed to reach a peace agreement. Carter said disagreements holding up the peace talks in Washington are over technicalities that have “absolutely no historical significance. “We have asked both sides to please be constructive, to please not freeze your position, to please to continue to negotiate, to please yield on this proposal, to adopt this compromise,” he said in an hour-long Public Broadcasting Service television interview Monday night. Carter told interviewer Bill Moyers that the United States had been appealing to Israel and Egypt “on a constant basis” for compromise in their Washington peace talks. “I think it would be horrible, I think, if we failed to reach a peaceful agreement between Israel and Egypt,” he said.
Meanwhile, Scientific ’evidence appeared to be mounting that Legionnaires’ disease is not particularly rare and strikes more frequently than previously believed researchers said Monday. Delegates to an international symposium- on Legionnaires’ disease at the US Center for Disease Control numbering 500 and representing 30 countries also said risk factors were being pinpointed and that one study showed individuals with Legionnaires disease smoked more cigarettes and drank alcohol.
And Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appeared Monday to have weathered the threat to his 37-year reign caused by weeks of antigovernment demonstrations and a crippling strike aimed at cutting Iran’s lifeblood its flow of oil. Tehran remained calm Monday under the watch of heavily armed troops in key districts of the city and a strictly enforced dusk-to-dawn curfew. Most’ shops businesses were open and government agencies and public utilities operated normally foreign workers and army personnel have taken over the oil fields under the watch of several thousand troops armed with tanks and machine guns. Production has been brought up from a low of 950000 barrels a day to 27 million state oil industry officials said. Scores of Americans working in the southern oilfields of Iran have been the targets of anonymous threats that they will be killed unless they leave Iran before Dec 1. Since the threats began two weeks earlier about 250 US nationals mainly women and children have fled the dusty desert town of Ahwaz at the northern edge of the Persian Gulf This vast oil belt is the key to the economy of Iran the worlds’ second largest oil exporting nation But most Americans randomly interviewed said they plan to ignore the threats which have come.
And along with the cliffhanging Middle-East Peace talks, that’s just a small slice of what went on in the world, this NOvember 14th in 1978 as presented by The CBS World News Roundup.
