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Tuesday, October 23, 1973
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Impeachment Talk Mounting Capital Speculates About Nixon Intentions
Israel Gains on 2 Fronts; Egypt Pushes into Sinai
WASHINGTON (AP) - Demands for the impeachment or resignation of President Nixon continued to swirl yesterday as Nixon met with former Atty. Gennell Elliott. Richardson, whose resignation was part of a weekend flurry of Watergate-related events.
Meanwhile, U.S. District Court Judge J. John Siraice called a meeting for today of both grand jurors looking into Watergate. The court has announced meeting was not known immediately.
There were no details available about Nixon's half-hour meeting with Richardson and his wife.
Speculation that Richardson might be offered another administration post was announced last week.
Richardson scheduled a news conference for this morning.
And at the same time, a scientific poll showed a narrow plurality of Americans favoring raising the minimum wage.
Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, that he supposed Nixon's action in firing Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox but that he didn't think dismissal of an employee was cause for impeachment.
NBC News said the poll showed 44 per cent favored impeachment, 43 per cent opposed and 13 per cent were undecided. The remaining 26 percent contacted nearly 1,000 people for the poll.
The poll was taken after Nixon fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald
Cox. It showed 75 per cent of those questioned opposed Cox's firing, 16 per cent approved and 9 per cent were undecided, NBC said.
THE NETWORK SAID 48 per cent of those questioned since Saturday night thought Nixon should resign "and let someone else run the country," 43 per cent said he should not resign and 9 per cent were undecided.
Meanwhile, Robert Bork, the new acting attorney general and U.S. Solicitor General, pledged vigorous pursuit of the Watergate investigation.
Sporadic Mideast Fighting Lingers
Rv the Associated Press
Egypt and Israel ordered their troops to silence their guards after 17 days of hostilities.
But a U.N. Security cease-fire
passed with no indication that
"There is no ceasefire on the Syrian
terrorist high-ranking Israeli army
officer in Tel Aviv
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Syria was ready to halt its part in the two front Middle East war.
Syria said it was studying the U.N. appeal for a major Arab nation fighting with the Syrian government.
House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Dokla, and other congressional leaders worked on plans for how to proceed with impeachment resolutions promised by angry members in the wake of Nixon's firing Saturday night of a Watergate gate prosecutor Archibald Coble.
Six hours after the cease-fire had passed, Israel again claimed its Suez Canal forces were coming under Egyptian fire on most sectors of the Suez front.
An hour after the cease-fire deadline the Israeli command said firing was continuing in some areas of the Egyptian front, but had been stopped at least once no clear picture," a communiqué said.
CAIRO AND TEL AVIV announced they had handed down orders to their troops to hold their fire unless fired upon along the coast. The United States contested since war erupted Oct. 6.
said: "The cease-fire is not being observed on most of the sectors of the Egyptian theatre Egyptian forces are firing at forces with various types of weapons."
EGYPT DENIED the initial charge soon after it was made. An Egyptian military spokesman was quoted on a Cairo television news broadcast as saying the Israeli claims "were aimed at finding a pretext to violate the ceasefire."
Both Israel and Egypt agreed to observe the cease-fire called for in a United Nations
The Israeli state radio reported Egyptian artillery was still shelling Israel's beachhead on the western side of the Suzur Canal several minutes after the cease-fire officially went into effect at 11,50 a.m. CDT, yesterday.
The Israeli announcement early today
Security Council resolution if the other side did.
The truce was jointly proposed by the Soviet Union and the United States, the superpowers backing the warring parties. It was passed by the Security Council early yesterday after an agreement worked out in Moscow over the weekend by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev.
IN ADDITION TO the ceasefire in place,
it called for Israeli withdrawal from Jor-
lson.
It also called for negotiations aimed at a lasting peace agreement for the Middle East, site of four wars since the Jewish state was declared in 1948.
The Syrian delay in accepting the cease-fire, if it continues, could undermine efforts to carry out the post cease-fire portions of the agreement.
danian, Egyptian and Syrian land captured in the six-day war of 1967.
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The entire sky above the canal was lit by the flash of battle.
Cease-Fire Doesn't Stop Fighting, Reporter Says
WITH ISRAELI FORCES INSIDE EGYPT—The new Middle East cease-fire came at 0:50 p.m. along the central Suez canal. The operation lasts longer in a great valley of gunfire.
Editors' note: AP Special Correspondent Hugh Mulligan has been with the Israeli task force in Egypt for the past two days as a U.S. envoy to the foreign press. Here is his latest dispatch.
By HUGH MULLIGAN Associated Press Reporter
Earlier, we had watched many grimy Egyptian soldiers emerging from their
One Egyptian staggered to our armored personnel carrier and gave himself up.
bunkers to surrender to advancing Israeli troops.
He said he was a farmer. The Israelis did not believe him. "He's a soldier, all right," said one. The man had been wounded in the battle. We took him to a medicine for treatment.
Kissinger stopped in Israel briefly yesterday on his way home from Moscow to confer with Premier Golda Meir and other Israeli leaders.
Earlier, AP photographer Horst Fasn
and a cameraman for the British Broadcasting Corp. were strafed by a low-flying aircraft that desert in their armored personnel carrier.
SEN. DANIEL INOYE, D-Hawaii, a member of the Senate Watergate committee, told the convention Nixon should resign because Americans "have suffered enough" and "must be spared this new pain and trauma."
The MIG, flying 30 feet above the ground, made one run at the zig-zagging vehicle, then turned and made another. He missed both times. A YAK fighter飞高 cover for the MIG was shot down by an Israeli Phantom.
The cease-fire came with the Israelis claiming a net gain of about 1,115 square miles of Arab land over the truce lines settled on at the close of the 1867 Middle
The AFL-CIO's national convention in Miami Beach, Fla., shouted approval to a resolution calling for Nixon to resign or to be impeached if he didn't.
Bork said he retained "ultimate authority and responsibility" for the investigation. When Nixon fired Cox, he also abolished the agency's investigative powers, which had handled the case since May.
THIS ADDITIONAL occupation constituted a strong reason for peace negotiations called for in the Security Council resolution.
Faiss, a Vietnam veteran, said he had never been more terrified in 10 years of war.
Israel officials said their forces held 745 square miles of territory in a beachhead reaching about 19 miles into Egypt proper, west of the Suez Canal, which had been the cease-fire line since Israel seized the Sinai peninsula from Egypt in the 1967 war.
Some of the Egyptian positions on the east bank extend up to 10 miles into the Sinai Desert, Cairo claimed. But Israel said the Egyptian-held strip was only two to four miles deep and contained about 310 square miles.
While White House aides sought to mollify critical senators and congressmen with explanations of Nixon's action, criticism of the president was significant amount of it from Republicans.
but Egypt claimed they retook control over a narrow battleground along the entire eastern bank of the 105-mile-long waterway, except at the Israeli cross-canal spearhead just north of Great Bitter Lake about midway up the canal.
The Egyptian foothold on the Israeli-held side of the canal-displacing the Israelis from their first Sinai defense lines—also appeared to give the Egyptians their own bargaining power for any Arab-Israel peace talks.
As we crossed the Israeli bridge back to Israeli lines on the east bank we saw a dead Egyptian soldier floating in the turbulent canal. There was no other Egyptian was stuck on the bridge.
The Israelis said their push into Syria, which began at the end of the first week of fighting in the Golan Heights, left them with 370 square miles of land beyond the lines
Nixon, first at the White House and then at his Camp David, Md., retreat, considered using a televised speech to present his side of the case to the nation
When we left the front line troops, they were less than 50 miles from Cairo.
Bork said that Cox' staff and evidence they had assembled would be used to pursue the Watergate investigation. Bork became acting attorney general when Atty. Gen. Robert K. Ruckus was appointed Atty. Gen. William Rückuske was dismissed Saturday night over Cox's firing.
BORK PUT THE investigation under the supervision of Henry Peterson, the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division.
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The public flooded Western Union with telegrams to Washington. Some 8,000 were sent to Cox's former office. A new Gallup Poll taken before Saturday's events showed Nixon's confidence rating with the public at a new low.
The president of the American Bar Association urged Congress to reestablish the office of the special prosecutor, a move that both attorneys and representatives also advocated.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate what he called accumulating evidence that last week's tapes battle was a
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Firing of Cox Slows Down Non-Watergate Inquiries
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon's firing of Archbold Cox blocked, at least temporarily, the search for White House records that could prove vital to non-Watergate investigations, including the ITT and milk-price cases.
Dissolution of the special prosecutor's office also makes the future uncertain for probes into a $100,000 contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes to Nixon's friend C. G. "Bebe" Rebozo, illegal corporate donations to the President's re-election campaign and alleged presidential involvement in the 1971 Ellsberg burglary
Documents already disclosed by the Senate Watergate committee and other sources point to critical material applications in the assessment of the Executive Office Building.
BUT THE CONDITIONS Nixon set when he agreed to release some material from the Watergate tape recordings would cut off access to all White House Watergate and non-Watergate papers. The court order he has refused to comply with would have forced him to surrender documents as well as the celebrated tapes.
Cox said one of his chief reasons for rejecting the deal was the ban on further taxation.
Some of the papers he is known or believed to have wanted are:
news the associated capsules press
All of Kansas' Congressional delegation opposes impeachment except Rep. Roy.
Rep. William Roy, D-Kan., admitted yesterday that chances of launching impeachment proceedings against President Nixon are slim at present. But he said he would urge the House leadership and judiciary committee to consider impeachment.
TransWorld Airlines, United and American announced last week that they would limit the number of flights because of the shortage of plane fuel. The airline has a capacity of 340,000 seats.
James Ramsey, public relations director for Frontier Airlines, said deletions from their schedules would probably be announced today.
Kansas Reps. Larry Winn Jr., Garner Shriver and Keith Sebellus, all Republicans, said they opposed impeachment and would vote against it. Rep. Jo Skubitz could not be reached for comment. Roy said he was uncommitted on how he would vote on an impeachment resolution.
United Auto Workers President Benn Kannon said the announcement at United headquarters in Dallas which she showed he served the nation's sports industry, with the designation night.
UAW authorized Ford workers to strike if national contract isn't made by Friday.
Several airlines are planning to revise
the still-secret documents could decide whether a conspiracy existed between ITT executives and government officials to settle the corporation's antitrust problems in exchange for a big campaign contribution.
Union President Leonard Woodcock warned Ford more than two weeks after the union would set the deadline if a settlement wasn't reached by yestersday.
Other memos cited by Colson refer to intervention in the case by high-level officials, including former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally and former Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson.
Three months later, on March 23, 1971, Nixon met at the White House with more than a dozen dairy industry lobbies. Also present was the secretary of agriculture, Ralph Dahl, who said Hardin reversed an earlier decision and announced an increase in federal milk price.
Sen. Ervin said he would have done
--MILK FUND: THE MILK producers lobby sent Nixon a letter on Dec. 16, 1971, discussing the industry's problems with price controls and mentioning it was about to start contributing $2 million to the military budget, design, according to investigative sources.
- ITT: IN A memorandum from then-
special presidential counsel Charles W.
Colson to then-presidential chief of staff H.
Halmaned on March 30, 1972, Colson listed a series of memos he said could be damage if they were discovered.
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Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, told the council, "Observe that the only grounds for a ox's dismissal should have been great."
as Cox did in refusing tapes proposal.
"I don't believe it's gross impropriety for a law enforcement officer to attempt to carry out an order of the court," he said.
The President should have obeyed U. District Court Judge John Sirica's order to turn the tapes over to Cox. Ervin said.
McBride Excitement Lights Classes
Editor's note—This is the last of a series of profiles of the 10 semi-finalists for the 1973 HOPE award. The field will be narrowed to five finalists Nov. 4 at a recognition banquet. Final voting will be Nov. 6 and 7, and the award will be presented Nov. 10 during halftime of the KU-Colorado football game.
By MARGIE COOK
Kanan Staff Reporter
"There are few satisfiesitions in life like explaining something in a classroom and seeing a student's face light up when he understands," says Edward McBride, professor of mechanical engineering and a HOPE award semi-finalist.
McBride's face often lights up as he talks, whether in the classroom or in private. His twinkling eyes reflect, as what he says reflects, that teaching is as exciting for him now as it was 21 years ago when he came to the University of Kansas.
According to students and faculty in the mechanical engineering department, McBride's enthusiasm is matched by his ability.
Charles Reese, professor of engineering, says, "McBride has more knowledge than any other faculty member in the entire field of mechanical engineering. He could teach every course in the department and do an excellent job."
STEVE POLAND, Overland Park senior,
student take a course from McGride
 College to learn about music.
McBride says he has been told that he has mellowed during his teaching career. That
is the only major change, he says, that he can see over his years of teaching.
...the average student and the kinds of problems to solve in engineering are about 12% of the total population.
McBride says he is notorious for his attempts at discipline in his classes. When McBride was nominated for the HOPE award last year, he told a HOPE committee member not to arrive late to one of his classes because the door would be locked.
MCRID says he is reasonable about
laying down the law on late class arrivals, or tests and on papers.
According to McBride, "There are tests where the first question any student can answer. The second question the good students can answer. The third question only the teacher and God can answer and the fourth only the teacher can answer."
"He expects a lot out of his student but he doesn't expect more than he would do for you."
That is a favorite department joke, but Mr. McBride denies his tests are like that.
David Supti, Overland Park senior, says that when McBride hands back a test, "He makes it seem like a joke but he just likes to make it look so sharp." He said a sharp attitude beets a sharper mind.
WHEATHER talking about thermodynamics or his past experiences, McBride jokes and yet makes sure his serious points are understood.
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Kansan Photos by SUSAN MARIE WINSLOW
Prof. McBride Is Demanding But Reasonable with His Students