News stories from Saturday November 3, 1973

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Demands for impeachment or resignation of President Nixon increased as a Gallup Poll showed that only about one person in four -- 27 percent -- approved of the way Mr. Nixon was handling his duties. In contrast, 60% expressed disapproval, while 13% were undecided in the poll, taken two weeks ago. As the poll results were being released, it was reported that congressional Republicans of varying political views acknowledged, for the first time, that there was serious and widespread discussion of the possibility of his resignation. [New York Times] "Fight. Fight. Fight," Mrs. David Eisenhower angrily scrawled in her appointment calendar last Oct. 26. That was the day President Nixon alerted American military forces around the world, leading to some speculation that he had created a crisis to distract attention from his Watergate problems at home. "That was decision day for me," Mrs. Eisenhower, the President's younger daughter, said in an interview at the White House. [New York Times] A high Bahamian government official with direct knowledge of the matter said that the United States government had made very little effort to extradite the fugitive financier Robert Vesco. He said the American government had attempted to create the public impression that it had made every effort to extradite Mr. Vesco from the Bahamas and Costa Rica, his legal residence, and that the governments of the two countries had somehow thwarted that effort. [New York Times] The official cease-fire took place almost two weeks ago, but Egypt remains a country at war, and in Cairo most people believe there will be fighting again soon. The blackout, which was eased four nights ago when some of the lights along the Nile were relit, is back in full force. A student said in a typical comment: "The Israelis have never given up anything voluntarily. They will not withdraw from their present position and they will not make peace. So we will have to fight again." [New York Times] Secretary of the Treasury George Schultz would like to see the present price-wage controls system replaced by a small federal inflation-monitoring agency with virtually no power to intervene in the economy. Mr. Schultz, who expressed his views at a news conference and later in an interview, doubted that generalized "jawboning" or exhortation by Washington does much good, and he was cool to the idea of a price-wage review board, long advocated by the Federal Reserve board chairman, Arthur Burns. He continued to express interest in gradual, selective decontrol, "peeling it off," as he called the process, but he also talked about preparing the public to accept a post-controls surge in prices. [New York Times] The efforts of Secretary of State Kissinger to resolve the problems of the Middle East cease-fire apparently intensified as he shuttled between the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy, and Premier Golda Meir of Israel. The State Department acknowledged that Mr. Kissinger had become, in a sense, a mediator between the two sides by saying that "obviously a cross-current of discussion is going on here." [New York Times]