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Good evening.
The Marines are out of Beirut tonight
and on ships off the coast of Lebanon.
But about 100 Marines are still in Lebanon
to guard the US embassy.
The redeployment of the troops went smoothly enough,
but once they were out of Beirut,
the fighting picked up once again.
Larry Pintak has the story.
Let's go, gents.
It's time for us to go.
Our boat is here.
My boat is here.
Yeah!
The last Marines left the way they came, across the beach.
It was finally time to leave Lebanon behind.
No one was reluctant to go.
Glad to get off the beach.
Glad to get the troops off the beach.
No more wounded, no more killed.
We're going home.
The battleship New Jersey opened up less than an hour
after the last Marine left.
The 16-inch gun shelled the Syrian-held mountains,
a reminder that though the Marines are leaving Lebanon,
the US intends to stay involved.
Today's final redeployment, as the Marines call it,
marks the end of a 17-month ground operation
that claimed the lives of at least 260 American servicemen.
The first units aboard this morning arrived by Chopper.
They were looking forward to the change.
But they aren't going home quite yet.
They'll stay off the Lebanese coast
until another Marine unit replaces them in April.
The Marines left a few friends behind in Lebanon,
but overall, their popularity has plunged.
To many Muslims, they've lost their neutrality,
sided with the Christian right.
For the Marines, the pullout was a celebration.
But from the Lebanese, there were no flowers, no cheers,
and no victory parades.
Larry Pintak, CBS News, West Beirut.
With the Marine pullout from Lebanon,
the United States has to come up with a new policy concerning
that war-torn nation.
Earlier today, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
was asked if the US would continue
its military support of the Lebanese government.
I think we want to wait and see what situation develops.
But the need for a sound, representative,
national Lebanese government remains.
The man who once led a group of fighters in Lebanon
went to Jordan today to talk about a Middle East peace
settlement.
PLO leader Yasser Arafat met with Jordan's King Hussein
to visit and attempt to get talks between the PLO and Jordan
back on track.
Those talks collapsed last spring
after a rival Palestinian faction ran Arafat out
of Lebanon.
The main topic of discussion today,
the Palestinians living in Jordan.
It was Jesse Jackson's announced sympathy
for the Palestinian cause that angered some Jewish leaders
in this country.
Things got even worse last week when reports surfaced
that Jackson had privately referred to Jews as Hymies.
After a week of denials, Jackson tonight
admitted making that remark.
Tonight's admission comes as tensions
between Jackson's supporters and the American Jewish community
continue to grow.
Bob Faw has that part of the story.
The setting was Chicago.
The audience was a nation of Islam, black Muslims.
But the target was American Jews.
The man who has enthusiastically endorsed Jackson
accused Jews of poisoning the political climate
against the candidate.
And citing recent threats against Jackson,
Farrakhan issued a veiled threat of his own.
Why Earl Stone's here is our champion.
If you harm this brother, what do you think we should do about it?
Yeah!
Last night, Jackson did not disavow those remarks
or disassociate himself from them.
And today, he did just the opposite
when he launched a new attack on Jewish leaders.
There is, in fact, documented evidence now
that many Jewish leaders and rabbis, as well as the JDL,
in fact, have assumed the responsibility
to hound this campaign.
What Jackson calls persecution ranges
from the disruption of his presidential announcement
by Jewish hecklers to picketing of his Boston office
by members of the militant Jewish Defense League
to this advertisement in the New York Times
from a group calling itself Jews Against Jesse
to this memo given reporters by the Anti-Defamation League,
which outlines a series of statements by Jackson, which
the league considers offensive.
Jackson, now back in New Hampshire,
is angry about what happened, which
is why he chose to escalate and not defuse the controversy,
which has dogged him all week and hurt him in the polls.
He still wants to meet and plans to meet with Jewish leaders.
Today, one of them said Jackson's latest charges
simply aren't true.
Bob Fawcett, CBS News, Manchester.
The search is continuing tonight for two men
missing in a boating accident near Oak Harbor.
They were aboard a 16-foot pleasure craft
that apparently struck a submerged object off
Woodby Island about 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Officials say neither man was wearing a life jacket.
The damaged boat was recovered, but so far there's
no sign of the men who've been aboard.
Coast Guard and Navy helicopters are taking part in the search,
along with a Coast Guard cutter and some private boats.
Seattle climber Jim Wickwire tonight
says he's given up hope of finding his friend alive
on Alaska's Mount McKinley.
Japanese climber Naomi Umura has been
missing since reaching the summit two weeks ago.
Wickwire says he found scraps of food and fuel in an ice cave,
but he's convinced Umura fell to his death
while descending the mountain.
Members of a Japanese climbing crew
say they're determined to scale the mountain
to recover Umura's body.
In Olympia tonight, there was heated debate
over a plan to spread the cost of charity hospital care.
We'll have that story in a moment.
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On the number one news, Eyewitness News.
Our 36-year-old escapee from Western State Hospital
is still at large tonight.
Robert Flink failed to return from an authorized visit
to his brother near Black Diamond.
Flink was taking part in a special conditional release
program that allowed him more freedom at the hospital.
The state prison system has a new policy
of releasing certain inmates ahead of schedule.
And today, the state house approved a bill
to continue that program.
The state has a new policy of releasing certain inmates
ahead of schedule, but some lawmakers are not happy
about an amendment to that bill that requires
Governor Spellman's OK to keep the program going.
The bill prohibits early release for sexual psychopaths
and violent criminals, and it eliminates the one inmate
per cell requirement at Shelton.
The bill now goes on to the Senate.
A plan to spread the cost of charity hospital care
to all hospitals in the state died in Olympia tonight.
One of the final actions in the House of Representatives
before today's major cutoff for most legislation.
It was a plan that had sparked sharp attacks
from the state's hospitals.
Story now from Ed Evans,
our legislative specialist in Olympia.
A plan moving through the legislature
to pool hospital charity costs began generating a storm
of controversy last week when the state's hospitals
placed newspaper ads around the state
calling the charity pool a tax on the sick.
A number of legislators say that ad was deceptive.
However, they're reluctant to give credit to the ad
for the death of the idea.
The charity portion of the bill
was voted down in the House.
It was excluded from a bill
dealing with ways to slow rapidly rising medical costs.
The bill's main architect, Senator Jim McDermott,
is optimistic that another approach might yet be found
to deal with charity care.
I think it's still possible to deal with that issue.
There are many ways to deal with it.
The way we chose, they were unable to accept,
but I think there are other ways to go about dealing with it.
As written, the House bill changes the makeup
of the hospital rate commission.
It'll provide that a majority of the members
will be comprised of consumers and payers.
Backers of that idea say it should at least slow down
the rising rate of costs.
Even if the newspaper ad was not instrumental
in defeating the charity care provision,
Senator McDermott says it will be remembered.
But they'll pay a price for that
because nobody will forget what they did.
McDermott says the newspaper ad will be remembered next year,
particularly if hospital costs
haven't started going down by then.
He says, too, it may take quite a while
to ultimately solve the problems of hospital charity care,
maybe several years.
Something, though, he says he's going to continue to push.
From Olympia, Ed Evans, Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
In Pennsylvania, three people were injured today
when three Conrail trains collided.
It happened about 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
A westbound train rear-ended a second train,
and that touched off an explosion in fire
that damaged a third train.
About 50 residents of a nearby village were evacuated
until it was determined that no hazardous materials
were involved in the fire.
In Newark, New Jersey, four children died
when the fire broke out in their home early this morning.
The four had been left unattended,
according to fire investigators.
The children were found in the first floor bedroom.
Fires across the country today killed eight children
and left nearly 50 people homeless.
And in Brazil, investigators say the death toll
was up to 81 in a gas explosion
that ripped through a shanty town there yesterday.
Most of those killed were children or old people.
Still to come, a hometown celebration
for Olympian Rosalind Sunders and the Sonics
are treated very rudely by some visitors from San Diego.
Sports is next with Gary Spinnell.
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Will she or won't she skate in the World Championships?
That question came alive again today as Olympic silver medal winner
Roslyn Sumners was honored in her hometown of Edmonds.
Hundreds of her fans turned out at Edmonds High School today
to show their support and appreciation.
Later, Roz appeared on network television
with CBS sportscaster Brett Musburger.
She told Musburger that she hadn't decided whether or not
to go to the World Championships next month before turning pro.
Just yesterday Roz said she'd already decided
not to compete in the World Championships,
but it seems she's changed her mind or at least
she hasn't even made her mind up yet.
Well, what do you think?
Isn't that a woman's prerogative? I've always heard that.
Oh, I knew you'd say that.
She told us, she told Jim Marshall, the Super Channel League
of the night that yes, he was going to turn pro,
and then she told Brent, I was eating breakfast,
and I went, wait a minute, Roz, you can't do that.
I just told everybody yesterday that it was the other way around.
She's probably torn because she wants to compete,
but she's awful tired. That's right. I'm tired too.
The Sonics looked a little tired today too.
Some old Sonics, James Donaldson, Greg Kelser, now with San Diego,
and that score hadn't changed. Last time the San Diego Clippers
came to town was March 8th of 81.
That was the last time they won, I should say.
Clippers final today, 101. The Sonics only had 93.
Take a look at some of the early highlights,
and this will tell you why the guys didn't do well.
Look at Terry Cummings. He goes to the hoop.
What a super second-year player he is.
Clippers jump on top, 14-3 with big red Bill Walton.
Look at this. Looks like about five years ago when he was playing.
Looks like he's back in his prime.
Look at James Donaldson, who went to San Diego to trade for Tom Chambers.
Look at here. Boom. There it goes. 18-7. The Clippers are on top.
Donaldson again. San Diego's going to jump out to a 34-18 lead,
believe it or not. The Sonics are going to come on here.
John Sunvill seems to be the spark as of late.
Johnny with the ball right here going to jump up and hit one.
That's the Sonics are within nine points now.
Big James and Kelser are going to team up here.
Watch Sigma bat the ball. Kelser bats it to Donaldson,
who's got the Rams at home.
The Clippers go on and win.
Big James is going to run over here to the bench
and tell us why he's happy about the game today.
It feels great. We have a very good rebounded team here with myself
and Bill Walton, Terry Cummins. Great Kelser comes off the bench.
We have a couple more. We just keep on going to the boards.
I don't think we're the best shooting team in the league,
but when the shots do go up, we're in position to get the rebound
and put them back in.
Here's the other scorers today.
Philadelphia 101-99. Indiana tops Portland by a single basket.
It's Detroit with a big score over Cleveland.
And Boston tonight beat Phoenix 116-109.
The college top 20 today, North Carolina, remains right on top of the heap.
A big score over Clemson today.
Houston, two points better than Arkansas.
DePaul is ten points better than Louisville.
UNLV, hardly a contest today against Cal Santa Barbara.
And Maryland upsets Wake Forest, 15th ranked Wake Forest, 74-65.
Believe it or not, as we switch here, that is a football game.
In stop action, it's the USFL. They're in action today for the first day.
New Jersey beats Birmingham. Jacksonville, boy, they really topple Washington.
Oklahoma, 7-3 over Pittsburgh. Philadelphia, 17-9 over Memphis.
New Orleans, this one's decided by a field goal, 13-10.
It's Tampa Bay by a field goal over Houston, 20-17.
Arizona with a big score of the day, 35-7 over Oakland.
And Denver tops LA, 20-7-10.
Let's switch to baseball. This is fun.
Well, the Montreal Expos promised Pete Rosie play every day.
You know they had to do something, probably trade this guy over here, Al Oliver.
He's going to San Francisco for next year.
They're going to send the Expos, the Giants are, Fred Brining.
Oliver's been around the league. That's him in his Texas uniform.
So he's been with Pittsburgh, Texas now, the Giants, and he's over here.
Boy, that's confusing, isn't it? Get out of here, Al. I've got things to do.
Speaking of the boys this summer now, they are on full force.
This is the Yankees training camp. Here's some guys you'll recognize.
There's Jerry Mumfrey, there's Yogi Berra and George Steinbrenner.
What they're going to do is move Dave Ruggetti to the bullpen.
There's Dave to replace Gus Gossage, who is on to San Diego.
Here's Ruggetti.
He's willing to do it and we're very happy.
I know a lot of guys think we forced it upon them.
I forced him upon it, but I didn't.
We had all the consent from all our coaches.
We think who would be the best man down for us, and we told Ruggetti to do the job.
I take it as a challenge, and there's no way I'm going to sit and complain about it and not do the job.
And I feel I can. They're taking a big chance at doing it.
I'm going to take a lot of heat, and I'm going to take a lot of heat for saying yes,
but find out if I'm up for the challenge or not.
I'll tell you, it was taking a lot of heat last year.
This is July 4th. Watch David here strike out.
That's Wade Boggs of Boston. He pitched a no-hitter against the Sox on the 4th of July.
Well, the first Pac-10 dual meets was held indoors at the University of Washington today.
The combined men's and women's track team defeated Stanford 127 to 120,
Heckhead Pavilion record spell in the long jump, 55-meter dash, and the women's mile relay.
Husky sprinter Donner Dennis broke her own record in the 55 meters.
Washington men won nine of 14 events, while Stanford, their women, captured seven of 11 events.
At the Alpine skiing event in Colorado today, Tamara McKinney took the slalom title for the second year in a row.
We're going to show the skiing, the ski bus today.
Oh, they say, yeah, take a look at these pretty pictures. Oh, it's so pretty up there and nice and cool.
But I was home by the fireplace. Pretty pictures of the rain air ski bus.
Mike Chiron of Olympia won the men's division and Kim Yenick won the freestyle.
And congratulations to Ricky Lockweeds. He won the fight title today in the Breakers 8, Colona 7.
And I'm going to my Colona out of here because it's out of done. They're going like this.
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Thank you. Next, Richard Montague is up for the weather forecast and then some marathoners do their part for the Special Olympics.
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Not because they take you to Tahiti and the Great Barrier Reef in New Zealand.
I hate Qantas because their crummy deal also brings you to Sydney and me all for $1,100.
Give me a break, Qantas.
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Work week's about to begin again. What's it going to be like?
Stormy Monday. That's the watchword for tomorrow morning.
Well, here are the current conditions now at Henry M. Jackson Airport where it is misting every so often as it has been doing off and on through the day today.
And those partly cloudy skies will cloud up even more tonight.
Forty-three is the current temperature with 76 percent the humidity.
Winds are out of the southwest and the barometer is falling currently at 30.18 inches of mercury.
Some of our high temperatures across the state today include Forks, Hoquiam, and Olympia with 43, 42, and 43 respectively.
And in eastern Washington it got to 37 in Spokane today when it actually recorded a 36 degree reading and in Ohmac, a 2 recorded 36 degrees for their high today.
Now there's a frontal system approaching our shores held off in part the past couple of days by some high pressure.
And as it moves very slowly towards the east, the high pressure that is, it will allow the frontal system to move our way which is now just off the shore here.
And you can see that it brings a hefty amount of cloud cover.
And with it, 50 percent chance of rain tomorrow and up to 80 percent by Monday night.
And in its wake, cold air promises more showers through the day on Tuesday and then some partial afternoon clearing.
There are gale warnings off the coast and through the strait specifically for southerly winds to 30 knots.
And then up to 35 on Monday specifically offshore in the northern parts with a swell 6 to 12 feet increasing to 15 feet on Monday.
Through the strait east to southeast winds adjusting to 35 knots and showers in the vicinity of course through the strait.
And on the inland waters around the vicinity of the San Juan Islands, a small craft advisory for winds up to 30 knots.
Elsewhere south to southeast winds 10 to 20 knots and of course showers expected Monday and part of Tuesday as well.
Over the mountains, snow in the upper elevations and rain down below with a snow level of 3500 feet.
Easterly winds to 35 knots at times, 25 to 35 knots and afternoon past temperatures in the mid 30s.
Here's our almanac. And today, the high was 46 degrees, same as yesterday.
The low last night was 37. The records were set in 1949 and 1962 and we've had two hundreds of an inch of rain the past 24 hours.
Now here's the forecast. Tonight more clouds of course and they continue to build with a 50 percent chance of rain.
41 degrees expected low with easterly winds. And those could get kind of gusty at times up to 20 maybe a little bit heavier tomorrow.
Cloudy skies, 52 degrees to high. Our five day forecast looks like this.
A 40 percent chance of rain early part of Monday up to 80 percent tomorrow night.
And then hopefully that clearing will lead to some warming temperatures on Tuesday.
Regardless of the fact that the clouds return our way midweek.
If the raindrops come a little further apart on Tuesday and that's what we call clearing.
That's what it seems. Good enough. Thanks Richard.
Finally tonight, hats off for maybe we should say shoes off to the hundreds of people who danced all night for the Special Olympics.
The marathon started yesterday at noon and enthusiasm was really high.
Nearly 500 dancers were going strong in the University of Washington's Hub ballroom.
But after rocking around the clock the crowd in the Hub wasn't quite the same.
But they rubbed and taped their aching feet and legs and kept right on going right up until noon today.
And here's the best news of all, the marathon raised $105,000 to benefit the Special Olympics.
And that's it for this late edition of Weekend Eyewitness News.
Richard Gehry now will be back again next week. Until then have a great week and thanks for joining us. Good night.
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Here with tonight's editorial is Kenneth L. Hatch, President of KIRO.
KIRO has declared 1984, the year of the child.
In conjunction with that campaign, here's Charlie Langdon, Executive Director of the Children's Home Society of Washington.
Since 1896, the Children's Home Society of Washington has been responding to children who have been physically, emotionally and sexually abused.
As with other child and family agencies, we are currently overwhelmed with the number of children that we must help.
We would like to ask you, the general public, to help us by preventing child abuse, by being positive with your own children.
The hurting parent is the parent who abuses the child.
A parent gets hurt as a child when he or she is criticized and condemned for the person they are rather than for their actions.
We ask you to be positive with your children, whether they are adult parenting themselves or minor children.
We ask you to help them grow positively.
We ask you to refrain from criticism and negative condemnation of them as people.
If you do that, then the children of the 21st century will be positive, productive parents.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Langdon, for sharing your views with us.
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