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Summary
THE DEFENSE SECRETARY WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE SENATE'S ARMED SERVICE COMMITTEE TUESDAY. MR. COHEN WILL ANSWER TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SETBACKS OF RECENT MISSILE TESTS.
Footage Information
Source | CONUS Archive |
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Record ID | 188741 |
Story Slug | DC - Preview:Missile - Defense |
Location | Washington, D.C. |
Format | NATS |
Date | 7/25/2000 |
Archive Time | 46:54 |
TRT | 1:25 |
Supers | File (:00)Ken Bacon, Defense Dept. Spokesperson (:21)Sen. Trent Lott, (R) Majority Leader (:39)Washington, DC (:55)Rep. Lynn Rivers, (D) Michigan (1:00)Chris Chmura, Reporting (1:15)TRT=1:20 |
Video Description | MISSILE LAUNCH, CU MISSLE, MISSILE LAUNCH AT NIGHT, KEN SOT, MISSILE LAUNCH FOOTAGE, SEN LOTT SOT, CLINTON, MISSILE LAUNCH, SOT AT PODIUM, MISSILE FOOTAGE |
Description | THE DEFENSE SECRETARY WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE SENATE'S ARMED SERVICE COMMITTEE TUESDAY. MR. COHEN WILL ANSWER TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SETBACKS OF RECENT MISSILE TESTS. |
Script | LEAD: DESPITE RECENT CRITICISM FROM OTHER NATIONS AT THE G-8 SUMMIT, THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES DEBATING WHETHER TO IMPLEMENT ITS NEW MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM. ON TUESDAY, DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN WILL BE ON THE DEFENSIVE... TAKING TOUGH QUESTIONS FROM THE SENATE'S ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE. CHRIS CHMURA (kuh-MORE-uh) HAS DETAILS FROM WASHINGTON.(TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: BECAUSE IT'S BELIEVED SMALLER NATIONS, AND NORTH KOREA IN PARTICULAR, COULD LAUNCH NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON THEIR OWN BY 2005-- THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT IS READY TO BEGIN BUILDING A NEW SYSTEM TO SHOOT THOSE MISSILES DOWN.---SOT--- Bacon"Our goal is to get North Korea to STOP building inter-continental ballistic range missiles and to stop them from exporting this technology to other countries."(NATS)THOUGH, THE NEARLY 30-BILLION DOLLAR PROJECT IS STEEPED IN CONTROVERSY... NOW, CONGRESS PROBES RECENT TESTS, FAILURES, AND CALLS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE THREAT.---SOT--- Lott"National Missile Defense is NOT about just North Korea... it's about dangerous countries, dangerous people, and accidents all over the world."ALSO, SOME SENATORS QUESTION WHY THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ISN'T LETTING THE NEXT PRESIDENT DECIDE THE DEFENSE SYSTEM'S FATE. MEANTIME, OPPONENTS PROTEST... CALLING THIS ALL UN-NECESSARY AND TOO EXPENSIVE.---SOT--- Rivers"It wastes the taxpayers money when MANY necessary expenditures are forced to compete for attention."(NATS)BUT, THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT INSISTS CONSTRUCTION OF THE MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM IS NEEDED NOW... AND, IF IT'S DELAYED ANY LONGER THE U-S WILL BE LEFT VULNERABLE TO AIRBORNE ATTACKS.IN WASHINGTON, CHRIS CHMURA REPORTING.IN WASHINGTON, CHRIS CHMURA FIRST BUSINESS. TAG: PRESIDENT CLINTON IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FINAL DECISION ABOUT IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM SOME TIME THIS SUMMER.0000 |
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