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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1973
Page
1
A highway department crew member installs a 50 mph speed limit sign on a Vermont road. Governor Thomas Salmon directed the slowdown to curb gasoline consumption.
Senate and House move on emergency fuel saving measures and the Alaska pipeline. The emergency act directs Nixon to ration fuels while the Alaska pipeline bill, approved by the House, could pass the Senate easily. Other measures seek daylight saving time, deregulation of wellhead gas prices, and big energy research funding as debates continue in committee.
An Israeli official says Israel will not yield control of the Cairo Suez highway to U.N. forces until Egypt completes a prisoner exchange. The cease-fire accord calls for U.N. control and gives Egypt access to Suez, while Kissinger weighs security guarantees beyond a treaty.
President Nixon presses a Watergate defense by privately meeting lawmakers and promising to hand over federal judge tapes and diary excerpts. White House lawyers gather material on other allegations while Sirica sets a November 20 deadline for subpoenaed and volunteered tapes. Experts may be appointed to review potential tampering of White House recordings.
The Senate Watergate committee voted 5 to 1 to request a meeting with President Nixon at his earliest convenience to question him about Watergate. The move, spearheaded by Sen. Lowell Weicker, seeks access to all tape recordings and documents related to the inquiry and calls for an unsealed transcript of the discussion.
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the upper 40s and highs near 70 on Wednesday in Middletown. Rain chances expand Thursday and Friday, with cooler conditions into Saturday as highs drop from the upper 50s to the 40s and overnight lows fall to the 30s.
Ford told Realtors that Watergate has not paralyzed Nixon or made him a prisoner though it creates a public confidence problem. He predicted exoneration as the truth emerges and praised Nixon’s 4.5 percent unemployment record and Middle East diplomacy, noting Churchill’s wartime quip.
Senate Watergate panel asked two American Ship Building Co. officials of Cleveland about another Nixon campaign contribution. Meanwhile Braniff Airways and chairman Harding L. Lawrence pleaded guilty to separate counts of illegal corporate donations totaling 40000 to Nixon's 1972 campaign.
Premier Chou En Lai told reporters he will not visit the United States while Washington maintains relations with Chiang Kai shek's Taiwan regime. He pressed Kissinger for clarity on U S policy, while Mao greeted Nixon with a long English‑language request conveyed through Kissinger. The two sides described their talks as wide ranging and friendly.
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