u

Fighting Against Higher Defense
Spending.

Capitol Cloakroom, CBS Radio
Network, June 1, 6:30 PM. TR-059

Interview with Eugene Eidenberg.
Good Morning America, ASC TV Net-
work, June 3, 7:00 AM. TR-060

Congress and the U.S. Foreign
Policy Decision-Making.
The Rowan Report, WHUR Radio,
June 3, 5:55 PM. TR-O61

Cuban Refugees at Fort Chaffee.
The World Tonight, CBS Radio
Network, June 3, 6:00 PM. TR-062

Reducing Youth Unemployment with
Military Recruiting.
The Daily Drum, WHUR Radio,
3, 6:00 PM. TR-063

June

American-Made Weapons Pouring
into Afghanistan.

The Daily Orum, WHUR Radio,
June 3, 6:15 PM. TR-064

Plans to Build a Joint Reserve
Training Center.

Jack Anderson, MBS Radio Network,
June 4, 6:23 Am. TR-O65

Bargain for the Pentagon.
Jack Anderson, MBS Radio Network,
June 4, 6:23 AM. TR-066

Israeli
Morning Edition,
work, June 4, 6:55 AM.

Plan for Hostage Rescue.
NPR Radio Net-
TR-067

Iran.
WRC Radio,
TR-068 ©

Vietnam and
Editorial,
8:40 AM.

June 4,

The Chinese as a Military Ally.
News 7, WJLA TV, June 4, 6:00
PM. TR-069

Quotes General Jones.
Eyewitness News, WDVM TV,
4, 6:00 PM. TR-070

June

Money for the Draft.

The Ten O'Clock News, WTTG TV,

@} June 4, 10:00 PM. TR-O71

America's Military Might Examined.
MetroNews, KTTV TV, May 23, 10:53
PM. LA-1

5.

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Friday, June 6



crisis and safe return of
them all.

ABC _WORLD NEWS TONIGHT

ABC _TV
7:00 PM JUNE 5 :

Chinese Vice Chairman to Resign

PETER JENNINGS: in China
today, news of the Vice Premier,
Teng Hsiao-ping. .Teng again
said he's resigning as Vice Pre-
mier, towards the end of the sum-
mer. .He will remain at his key
post of number two in the Commu-
nist Party.

Teng also said today that
China was satisfied at her re-
ported tilt by the United States
away from Moscow towards Peking.
He was commenting on remarks at
the State Department which poin-
ted out that Washington was no
fonger following an evenhanded
policy towards the two Communist
capitals.

Soviet Space Launch

JENNINGS: Yet another
Soviet space flight began today.
Two cosmonauts, flying a new,
more sophisticated model of
Soyuz, went into orbit. It's
likely they will link up with
the already orbiting Soviet
space station.

NORAD Alert

FRANK REYNOLDS: It was dis-
closed today that earlier this
week, for a few anxious minutes,
there were indications that Sov-
jet technology was being used
in a rather more sinister way.
But it soon became evident the
problem was with American tech-
nology. Pentagon .correspondent
John McWethy has the story.

JOHN MCWETHY: Before dawn
on Tuesday morning, computers at
the Strategic Air Command Center
in Omaha, Nebraska sounded an
alert: an ICBM attack from the

Soviet Union and its submarines
had been launched. In response,
readiness of America's missile
force was increased, and B-52 and
F-111 bombers carrying nuctear
weapons were scrambled. Pilots
were in the planes,with engines
running, before the alert was
called off. It was a false alarm,
it turned out, generated by the q
computer. It took three minutes
to verify by satellite that no
Russian attack had been launched,
and another 20 minutes to fully
call off the alert.

This is the second such false
alarm in this system in seven
months, a source of growing con-
cern here at the Pentagon, where
the margain of error is measured
in minutes, and mistakes, if not
detected early, could touch off
a nuclear war.

Middle East Situation Update

JENNINGS: Israeli -forces,
before dawn, once again attacked
south Lebanon. The Israelis say
it was Palestinian guerrilia
targets. The residents of Sidon
say one civilian was ‘killed and
three others wounded.

In the occupied territories
today, the Mayor of Bethlehem
said West Bank Palestinians have
reached a dead end of isolation,
subjugation, and humiliation.
Two other mayors were maimed this
week by car’ bombs. Today the
condition of one is worse.***

The following transcripts are
available for viewing on the
premises at SAF-AAR:

Military Buildup in Response to
Iran and Afghanistan.

News, MBS Radio Network, June 1,
5:30 PM. TR-057

Benefits for the Armed Forces.
Congressional Backgrounder, WTOP
Radio, June 1, 5:55 PM. TR-058

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PENTAGON COMPUTER MALFUNCTION: The Pentagon announced

today that NORAD experienced a computer malfunction early
Tuesday morning resulting in the alerting of the Strategic
Air Command of a missile attack on the United States by

the Soviet Union. This was the second such computer mal-
function to occur in the last seven months. Reports from
John Chanceilor and Hilary Brown, NBC, Walter Cronkite and
\ke Pappas, CBS, and Frank Reynolds and John McWethy, ABC.

posed a tentative plan for the release of the American

hostages. He wants a commission formed to document the
“crimes of the United States in tran, withdrawal of American

support from the Shah's family, assurances that American

xX IRAN SITUATION UPDATE: Iranian President Bani-Sadr pro-

projects started in Iran will be completed, and assurances
that the United States will not interfere in the affairs of
Iran. Reports from John Chancellor, NBC, and Walter Cronkite,
ces.

MIDDLE EAST SITUATION UPDATE: Today was the anniversary of
the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israeli troops attacked Pales-

tinian guerrilta bases in southern Lebanon, and were on ful
alert on the West Bank against possible reprisals for this

week's bombing attacks against two pro-Palestinian mayors.

Reports from John Chancellor, NBC, Walter Cronkite and Bob

Simon, CBS, and Peter Jennings, ABC.

CHINA VICE CHAIRMAN TO RESIGN: China's Vice Chairman Teng
Hslao-ping announced he will resign his position sometime
this summer. He will maintain his post as number two in
the Communist Party. Report from Peter Jennings, ABC.

SOVIET SPACE LAUNCH: The Soviet Union launched a sophis-
ticated two-man spacecraft today, the Soyuz T-2, which is
expected to dock with their Salyut space station. Reports
from Frank Reynolds, ABC, and Walter Cronkite, CSS.

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NBC NIGHTLY NEWS NBC _TV-
6:30 PM JUNE 5 :

Pentagon Computer Malfunction

JOHN CHANCELLOR: Earlier
this week, for a few minutes
it looked as though the United
States were about to be attacked
by Soviet missiles. A military
alert signal went out to the
armed forces. Engines on Amer-
ican planes were started. One
command aircraft.crew was scram-
bled and sent aloft. All a com-
puter mistake, it turns out,
early on Tuesday morning, but
no laughing matter. Hilary
Brown has the details from the
Pentagon.

HILARY BROWN: According
to the Pentagon, the false alarm
started with what it called a
technical problem in a computer
at NORAD, the North American Air
Defense Command, in Colorado
Springs in the early hours of
Tuesday morning. This brought
up visual displays at the Stra-
tegic Air Command in Omaha and
at the Military Command Center
at the Pentagon indicating
Soviet missile launches from
land and sea against-the United
States. Warplanes of the
Strategic Air Command, 8-52
bombers and F-‘1ils, like these,
were manned immediately and
their engines were started. One
command=and-control aircraft, of°
the type shown here, actually
took off from its base in Hawaii.

But defense afficials say
that even as the planes were
starting up, it was clear there
was no attack.

THOMAS ROSS: We thought
from the beginning that it was
false. We knew in quick order
that it was a computer mal func-
tion and not an actual attack
underway.

BROWN: Only seven months
ago, NORAD went on a similar
alert when simulated attack data
were accidentally fed into the
computers. An immediate inves-

tigation has been ordered to find
out what happened this time.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown
said today that becatise thé alarm
was found to be false within three
minutes, this shows how the nation'g
cefense monitoring system really
works.  !t also seems to show how
quickly the superpowers could be
brought to the brink of war.

Iran Situation Update

CHANCELLOR: irants President
Abol Hassan Bani-fadr has a plan
for the release of the American
hostages. He wants what he calls
American support for the family
of the Shah to come to an end,
guarantees that projects the United
States began in Iran will be fin-
ished, and assurances that the
United States not interfere in
Iranian affairs. The plan is
remarkably free of the usual bom-
bast, but no one is certain if
it would be acceptable to the
Ayato!lah Khomeini.

Israeli Situation Update

CHANCELLOR: Today is the
anniversary of the famous 1967 Six
Day War in the Middie East, when
Israel defeated Syria, Jordan and
Egypt, and transformed the -map
of the Middie East.

Today, 13 years later, there
were threats from the Palestinians,
the Israeli Army was put on full
alert, israeli troops attacked
Palestinian guerrilla positions
in southern Lebanon, and the
United Nations Security Council
condemned ‘the attacks on Arab
mayors of towns in the territories
occupied during the 1967 Six Day
War.

2. Friday, June 6



CBS EVENING NEWS
7:00 PM JUNE 5

ces TV

Pentagon Computer Malfunction

WALTER CRONKITE: For the
second time in seven months, a
computer malfunction at the
nation's missile warning center
recently indicated that the
United States was under attack
by the Soviet Union. Last Nov-
ember's false alarm lasted six

minutes. This week's was half
as long. Ike Pappas reports.
IKE PAPPAS: Deep inside a

mountain near Colorado Springs,
Colorado, the North American
Air Defense Command keeps track
of Soviet missile launches by
way of satellite linked to an
elaborate computer network.
Early Tuesday, the NORAD computer
flashed a warning that the
United States was under nuclear
attack by the Soviet Union.
American strategic bombers
and missiles immediately went
on stepped-up alert. Three
minutes later, the alert was
cancelled, however, when it was
discovered that technical prob-
lems in the computer system had
caused another false alarm. No
bombers were !aunched, but one
radar plane did take off from
Hawaii. Neither Defense Sec-
retary Harold Brown nor Pres~
ident Carter was informed of

the latest incident. Brown
telling reporters on Capitol!
Hill that such false alarms
occur from time to time.
SECRETARY BROWN: There
have been individual missile

launches which have raised
these questions, and computer
malfunctions that have raised
these questions periodically
over the years; and there are
going to continue.to be. The
system operates, as it's supposed
to operate, with people In the
loop to assure that we do not
make these decisions by computer.
PAPPAS: The Pentagon has
faunched an investigation, and

should know within a week what
caused the computer glitch.

Soviet Soyuz Launched

CRONKITE: The Soviet Union
continued to accelerate its space
program today, with its second
launchingrinatemidays.: 3A Soyuz
T-2, wasinsentiup itio: Wink iwothether
orbixting iSaliyuti<6 tsplace astdtiion.
This was the+ttirst ‘manned mission
for the two-man T-2, described as
an improved version of earlier
Soyuz craft.

Middte East Situation Update

CRONKITE: Israeli troops
today attacked Palestinian guer-
rilta bases near the Lebanese port
town of Sidon. The military com-
mand said several guerrillas were
kilfed or wounded.

Israeli troops also were ac
tive in the occupied West Bank,
on alert for reprisals for this
week's car-bomb attack that maimed
two Palestinian mayors.***

{ranian Hostage Release Plan

CRONKITE: Iranian President
Bani-Sadr reportedity has come up
with a three-point plan to end
the protracted tran hostage crisis.
But because the plan does not call
for the return of the deposed Shah,
as demanded by the hard-line Is-
lamic fundamentalists, it's not
clear whether Ayatoilah Khomeini,
the final authority, would accept
it.

According to Irants official
news agency, the plan calls for an
end, of US support for the Shah's
exiled family, guarantees that the
United States would complete pro-
jects in tran, and provide spare
parts for US equipment, presumably
including military equipment, and
assurances that the United States
would not interfere in Iran's af-
fairs.

Another report, in the -Boston
Globe, said that show trials for
some of the American hostages
would lead to a resolution of the

3. Friday, June 6