– CBS World News Roundup – 9:00 am Network News – November 13, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –
News from the Middle-East for this Monday – Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin went before the microphones to give details on the latest round of talks, which remained deadlocked over the Palestinian issue today, despite a concerted US effort to keep a partially completed treaty between Egypt and Israel from unraveling- President Carter’s personal intervention with President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister.
But Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, after a late Sunday session with Begin at Kennedy Airport refused to abandon hope of completing the accord which only a week earlier appeared within grasp “I believe that peace can be achieved between the parties” he said “I believe that they both sincerely want peace that people of both their nations want peace “That being the case” Vance said “I believe that peace can be achieved” A tired Begin standing at Vance’s side in an airport lounge crammed with reporters and television cameras spoke almost inaudibly He said that “problems” remained but that Israel still hopes for a settlement.
President Carter, worried about the Soviet Union’s growing civil defense capability has approved plans to vastly upgrade US efforts aiming to save as many as 140 million Americans in the event of nuclear war American civil defense officials estimate that only 90 million of the country’s 220 million citizens would now survive a nuclear attack The new plan would hope to save between one-half and two-thirds of all Americans through massive evacuation of metropolitan areas if nuclear war was threatened.
And production at Iran’s strikebound oil fields inched upward this day as a handful of workers joined foreign experts and military technicians in working the wells of the world’s second largest oil exporting nation. The official Iranian news agency said most of Iran’s 37-000 oil workers defied a military government order to end their two-week-old strike but the few who did return helped boost production to 27 million barrels a day.
And aside from the ongoing story in the Middle-East, that’s just a slice of what happened, this November 13th – as reported by The CBS World News Roundup.
