Good evening.
This is the CBS Evening News.
Bob Schieffer reporting.
People have been saying for years that anything is possible in the Middle East.
Even so, who would have predicted what has been happening there today?
Palestine Liberation Organization forces have been fighting with each other.
Supporters appeal OChief Yasser Arafat and a rival faction battle with artillery and
mortars in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon.
Lebanese government authorities say at least 10 Arafat loyalists and six civilians were
killed.
We'll have more on the story from Alan Pizzi in the Beqaa Valley.
Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fata has been seriously ruptured by a group of officers who rebelled
against his apparent desire for negotiations.
That broke into open warfare today near the town of Balbek.
The incident underlined the seriousness of the split.
A few days ago, this man, Musa Awad, claimed that at least 10,000 Fata members had followed
him to the rebel side.
Today, Arafat's top aide held a meeting of some of the alleged defectors to belie the
claim.
But Syrian troops have had to be placed between the rival factions here near the town of Stura.
And the Beqaa Valley has replaced Beirut as the confrontation zone, not only between the
Israelis and Arabs, but now among the Palestinians themselves.
Alan Pizzi, CBS News, in the Beqaa Valley.
Arafat, the man the PLO factions are fighting about, was supposed to make a speech to his
followers today.
Instead, he left the Beqaa Valley and turned up in Romania, where he met today with Romanian
leader Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Romania is the only Warsaw Pact country that maintains relations with both Israel and the
Arab states, and for years Ceaușescu has wanted to play the role of Middle East mediator.
But there was no word on what they talked about.
A few hours later, Arafat arrived in Algeria and said only that the situation in the Middle
East is extremely explosive.
The PLO's trouble surfaced almost one year after the Israeli invasion that led to Arafat's
troops being forced out of Beirut.
But in Jerusalem, the anniversary is being greeted with mixed feelings rather than celebration.
We have a report on that from Bob Fahl.
This is hardly the anniversary celebration Menachem Begin had in mind one year ago.
It's not the war memorial he wanted either.
Each figure here represents the nearly 500 Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon.
2,600 Israelis wounded there are not shown.
Those are crushing totals in a small country but the sacrifice is justified says the Begin
government.
We mourn every single death.
The 500 dead is a terrible thing for us but it's the sort of thing that we are willing
to have to sacrifice for the sake of the security of this country.
The people understand the need to maintain security at all costs.
But the anti-war movement grows because many here think the war has gone on too long, achieved
too little, cost too much and has done so by violating fundamental Jewish values.
The world is expecting from people who suffered, from the people who suffered so much that
it will show some sensitivity, some extra sensitivity to the very phenomenal suffering
and we don't show any kind of national sensitivity to suffering.
The debate between those two beliefs has torn the country apart, has turned demonstrations
ugly even dangerous.
And the war which destroyed the military organization of the PLO also destroyed something else,
Israel's image as an endangered underdog in the region.
But because it ended terror in Israel's communities along the Lebanese border, because it brought
Israel in agreement with another Arab country and improved Jerusalem's relations with Washington,
the Begin government thinks the campaign was worth the cost and argues that the benefits
are permanent.
Lebanon was a country without hope, it was a country in despair.
Today there is again hope in Lebanon to achieve once more sovereignty and independence.
That Beirut is again a united city, that is all due to the fact that we made this operation.
But many here fear the security benefits are only temporary and many feel betrayed by a
government which for the first time turned loose the Israeli army when Israel's survival
was not at stake.
Your force doesn't give you any rights, it gives you an ability but not the rights.
Morality doesn't play the major role, it should play.
So protest against the war continues here, an estimated 60,000 turning out in a Tel Aviv
demonstration tonight.
And as Israelis in Lebanon try to protect themselves from hit and run attacks, much
of this nation which desperately wants to believe all this was necessary commemorates
the anniversary in disgust and in despair.
Bob for CBS News Tel Aviv.
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A three and a half month manhunt apparently ended in a blazing shootout at a remote Arkansas
farmhouse last night.
The state medical examiner today tentatively identified a charred body as that of notorious
fugitive Gordon Call, member of an anti-tax group wanted for the murders of two federal
marshals.
David Dick has more on the story.
What was believed to be Gordon Call's last hideout smoldered in ruins during the night
and the heat continued to ignite unspent ammunition.
At first, reporters were kept far back as what one officer called a war was waged.
For about an hour and a half, live rounds of ammunition exploded inside the house.
Probably not hundreds of thousands, but tens of thousands of rounds of small and large
ammunition.
Final night, possible hand grenades, et cetera.
When the shooting finally stopped, there were two bodies.
One burned beyond recognition, but believed to have been fugitive Gordon Call.
The other, the body of Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Matthews, who had entered the house to
arrest Call.
They had shot each other and then their bodies rode side by side to the state crime lab.
Gordon Call is believed to have been here for the past week in this bunker built into
the side of a hill.
A fortress with seven inch thick outer walls deep in a remote corner of Northeastern Arkansas.
The FBI arrested the renters of the property, Leonard and Norma Genter, said to have similar
beliefs as Call.
The Genters were charged with harboring a fugitive and murder charges against them have
now been filed.
Call had been the object of a manhunt since last February 13th following a shootout in
North Dakota in which two federal marshals were killed.
Call was indicted for premeditated murder.
Gordon Call was a member of a militant survivalist group called Posse Comitatus, a tax revolt
group that opposes state and federal authority.
The FBI special agent here said he had been told Call would not allow himself to be taken
alive.
There was a deep sense of loss in the Lawrence County Sheriff's office.
Sheriff Matthews on any kind of warrant, search warrant was always first to go in.
He wouldn't allow his men to take the chance.
He expected to back him up, but he wouldn't let them take the chance.
The end of the line for Gordon Call was riddled with bullets and there was little left but
ashes.
David Dick, CBS News, Lawrence County, Arkansas.
The weather took yet another turn for the worse in Utah today.
Thunderstorms and rain dashed hopes for any relief soon from the floods and mudslides
that have plagued the state all week.
About 1,600 people have been forced from their homes and today the first death was attributed
to the storm.
A body was discovered in a flooded Salt Lake City basement.
Barry Peterson has tonight's report on the storm.
It began with a nighttime thundershower, more water pouring out of the mountain, rushing
down the sandbag streets, prompting a call for volunteers to work through the night,
building more sandbag dikes.
By daylight upstream, the water nearly was out of control.
There was more hasty sandbagging to contain City Creek, which is overflowing into the
streets used as makeshift rivers in the downtown area.
It isn't just that there is now more water running down this makeshift river, but what
the water is carrying, mud and debris.
That's beginning to clog up the drains that take this water out of the city.
The situation became more serious by mid-morning.
The water starting to pour out of manholes in several parts of the city.
Emergency crews, already tired from more than a week of fighting back the flood, rushed
in to contain the worsening situation.
By afternoon, the man-made river down State Street was extended to more than a dozen blocks,
literally cutting downtown in half.
On another street, North Temple, workers chopped to clear up a clogged storm drain, but finally
called in the National Guard to set off low-level explosives to turn this portion of City Street
into a massive, free-flowing ditch.
There was tragedy, what may be the first flood-related death in this city.
A man who went to sleep in a dry basement but floodwater seeped in, he was found this
morning floating in three feet of water.
There was near tragedy on a bridge in Ogden where part of an access road gave way.
Four people were hurt when their vehicles tumbled in.
The whole house, that's what I've got left.
And there was the kind of personal tragedy that nature's destruction can bring.
Burned pies, her family and friends helping, could somehow not stop the tears as the dirty
earth surrendered a lifetime of memories crushed under tons of mud.
Oh, there's Mama's riding.
I lived in this house all my life.
This is my mother's house.
I was born and raised here.
Oh, there's Grandma's picture.
On this day, nature took no notice of how much of Fern Pie's life was already gone.
Instead, the mud began sliding down Rud Canyon again.
Barry Peterson, CBS News, Salt Lake City.
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Investigators turned up some new leads today as they search for the cause of the fire that
took 23 lives Thursday night during an Air Canada flight from Fort Worth to Toronto.
Thus far, the investigators say they found no evidence of foul play.
We have a report from Ned Potter in Cincinnati.
Investigators, checking records and combing through the charred cabin, took special interest
in a note from the pilot's log.
A note with no time on it, but doubtless just before the plane got into trouble.
There were some circuit breakers that popped in the aft lavatory area and he had attempted
to reset them.
They would not reset.
The aft lavatory and electrical motor inside is so far the key.
At 7.09 PM, the pilot was reporting cabin smoke and loss of his electrical system.
An air traffic controller talked him into Cincinnati.
By 7.24, the plane was on the ground, the cabin on fire, 23 dead.
I'm becoming more and more convinced, I feel more confident that we will come up with the
cause of the fire.
But beyond the cause, why the effect, why the quick spread of smoke and flame right
after landing?
This was a DC-9 Model 30, a plane about 15 years old.
But in recent years Air Canada had revamped the interiors on virtually its entire fleet,
generally using more fireproof materials than those in use when the plane was built.
We currently have materials that are completely safe from that standpoint.
From the standpoint of being lethal to passengers, the materials are self extinguishing.
They're very low smoke producing.
But by coincidence, fate had already been hard on this DC-9.
In September 1979, an Air Canada jet had been forced to land at Boston after its tail cone
emergency exit popped off in flight.
It was the same plane.
He seems fine.
He was fine yesterday.
As Betty Forrest, whose husband was on the plane, could tell you, this was an accident
of extremes.
All who died, died very quickly.
Of those who survived, all but a couple were out of the hospital by this afternoon.
Ned Potter, CBS News, Cincinnati.
The remains of nine American servicemen killed in the Vietnam War were brought home to the
United States today.
An Air Force plane carrying the remains landed in Honolulu on a flight from Clark Air Base
in the Philippines.
Remains were turned over yesterday to US officers in Hanoi.
They will be examined by an Army laboratory in Honolulu in hope of positive identification
can be found.
The Army's new multi-purpose vehicle in successor to the famous Jeep is called the Hummer, but
it isn't exactly humming along in tests under battlefield conditions.
Pentagon memo obtained by a private watchdog group says the Hummer has been showing very
low reliability, averaging only 370 miles before breaking down.
The Pentagon requirement is at least 1,600 miles.
The Pentagon acknowledged that the test results are cause for concern, but said the defects
are being corrected.
About 55,000 Hummers are on order at $20,000 apiece.
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For the second time in less than three months, the Soviet Union has ordered the expulsion
of an American diplomat on charges of espionage.
This time it is Louis Thomas who's attached to the U.S. Embassy's security division.
Soviet officials claim the KGB secret police caught Thomas red-handed in an act of espionage,
but they gave no details, neither would the State Department.
In Washington, Senator Charles Percy, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,
released a report today on U.S.-Soviet relations, which he said are deeply strained.
Six committee staff members wrote the report after interviewing U.S., European, and Soviet
officials and spending a week in Moscow.
More from Robert Pierpoint.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan three years ago is cited by the report as the starting
point for seriously deteriorating relations between Moscow and Washington.
The authors of the report believe the key to reversing this dangerous trend lies in
successful disarmament negotiations, but they are pessimistic.
They report that after Geneva talks about limiting nuclear weapons in Europe, the Soviets
behind closed doors are being, quote, belligerent and nasty as hell, unquote, while they try
to block the placement of new American missiles in Western Europe.
Demonstrations by opponents to the missiles may force modifications in the U.S. proposals,
but the report predicts deployment will get underway this December despite the Soviet
efforts and threats of retaliation.
The report says the strategic arms limitation, or START talks, at Geneva are also in poor
shape and quotes one of the U.S. negotiators as warning that President Reagan must move
fast and make dramatic changes if he's to get a START agreement before his term of office
ends next year.
Though not predicting dramatic changes, the top official of the Reagan administration
dealing with Soviet problems on a day-to-day basis indicates some changes are in preparation.
Our negotiator, Edward Rowney, will be returning very soon to Geneva to begin a new round of
those negotiations, and there could very well be some changes in our position.
We're prepared to revise or we're prepared to review our decision with an eye to making
progress in the negotiations.
Burt does not believe relations with the Soviet Union are as poor as the committee staff report
claims.
I think we have to recognize that the Soviet Union has a technique, and that is when they
get visitors from Washington or other countries that they like to depict sometimes a grim
picture of the state of affairs.
They like to complain about the lack of progress in arms control, hoping that these visitors,
when they go home, will put the pressure on us.
Putting pressure on the Reagan administration is exactly what the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee intends to do.
Chairman Percy has announced a series of hearings in mid-June aimed at exploring prospects for
the future between Moscow and Washington.
The first witness will be Secretary of State George Shultz.
Robert Pierpont, CBS News, Washington.
Six thousand Union meatpackers today struck the Wilson Foods Corporation, the nation's
largest processor of fresh pork.
As Ray Brady reports, the strike issue is unusual.
They went on strike here not just over pay, but over principle, one that could affect
thousands of other American workers.
Wilson Foods declared bankruptcy.
With the stroke of a pen, it could stay in business but void its labor contract and slash
worker salaries by 40 to 50 percent.
Wilson Foods says it was losing one million dollars a week because it was paying higher
wages than competing meatpackers.
I was taken home like about $230 a week and now I take home, one of my checks was $116.
Companies like Wilson often speculate in the commodity market and that is where at least
some of Wilson's losses came.
By declaring bankruptcy, Wilson was able to protect its remaining net assets of $60 million.
They filed, I suppose what I would call, an anticipatory bankruptcy where they said, look,
the handwriting is on the wall, we are going to go bankrupt.
If this continues in the classic sense of the word, we will be driven into the ground
and nobody will have a job at all.
So why should we wait?
What worries some is that a number of companies who are not broke in the usual sense of the
word are going into bankruptcy to protect themselves against union contracts and other
liabilities.
I can't go to my banker and say, look, I'm having financial difficulties because my employer
just filed Chapter 11.
He's going to laugh at me or else take my house back.
Workers are tense today because some remember when Wilson was torn apart in 1959 by a bitter
strike that brought the National Guard to Albert Lee and they are afraid.
Ron and Julie Boyer could lose their home.
We cannot make it.
We have, after paying my bills from month to month, we have $40 to live on and that
includes for food, groceries, doctor bills, gas for the car.
The strike vote against the financially weak companies say experts means workers feel they
have nothing left to lose.
Ray Brady, CBS News, Albert Lee, Minnesota.
Tomorrow is World Environment Day and today a new UN report claims that Western industrial
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They have been making baseball bats in Louisville, Kentucky for years.
Until now they have not been using them to direct orchestras.
Therein lies our final report tonight which comes from Frank Currier.
It was cultural arts and athletics on a twin bill last night in Louisville as the symphony
orchestra swapped black ties for blue jeans in a pops concert at the ballpark for more
than 14,000 baseball fans.
For conductor Bob Bernhardt the baton gave way to a Louisville slugger.
Suiting up for the Stars and Stripes in the uniform of his first place hometown triple
A team was a thrill.
His own boyhood baseball career hopes had ended years ago at a minor league training
camp.
At the end of the week they pulled me into the office and they said Bob have you considered
music?
And that's what happened.
My baseball dreams went that way and I went this way.
I couldn't get in this uniform legitimately so anyway I can.
I'll do it.
As the Louisville Redbirds talked pregame strategy in the dugout the thoroughbreds of Louisville
society were warming up in the stadium beer garden.
Unlike the hot dog crowd they had paid $35 a ticket to raise money for next year's symphony
season.
Everybody here tonight has said it's much more fun than the black-tass traditional symphony
ball.
But in this derby town best known for bluegrass bourbon and baseball bats the fans in the
stands did not let the music interfere with business as usual.
I have seen bluegrass and different things out here but it's the first time I've ever
seen a symphony orchestra out here.
Yes.
Well it is a bit unusual but what isn't unusual today?
I think it's a fine invocation to have people come out here to listen to this orchestra.
To tell you the truth I was in the outfit sleeping.
Not to worry the Redbirds went on to out slug the Oklahoma City Farm Club in a 7 to 2 victory
and it just may have been a victory too for the orchestra.
We'll all sing take me out to the ball game.
With that number and a summer of baseball still ahead the Louisville Orchestra closed
out its 46th season at Redbird Stadium.
Frank for your CBS News Louisville.
That's the news I'm Bob Schieffer CBS News New York.
Good night.
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