News stories from Saturday October 6, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The heaviest fighting between Israeli and Arab forces since the 1967 war erupted on Israel's front lines with Egypt and Syria. Both sides said the other attacked first, but they agreed that Egyptian forces had crossed the Suez Canal and established footholds in the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, while United Nations military observers reported that Syrian forces had attacked the Golan heights. Despite the scarcity of details and conflicting reports from different capitals, some observers feared the scale of the fighting indicated another all-out war. However, there was no initial military action reported along Israel's borders with Jordan or Lebanon. [New York Times]
- The heavy fighting that shattered the solemn observance of Yom Kippur, the most sacred Jewish religious holiday, erupted at 2 P.M. according to military spokesmen in Jerusalem. Later the authorities reported that Egyptian forces had captured a number of points on the Israeli-occupied side of the Suez Canal. [New York Times]
- In a succession of military communiques read on the government-controlled Cairo radio, Egypt said that Israel had attacked along the entire length of her front lines but that Egyptian forces had repelled the attack and crossed the Suez Canal to establish several footholds in the Sinai Peninsula. [New York Times]
- Taken by surprise by the outbreak of heavy fighting in the Middle East, the United States appealed to Israel and Egypt to stop fighting. Secretary of State Kissinger spoke by phone with the foreign ministers of both nations, neither of whom had given him any indication in recent contacts that fighting was about to erupt. [New York Times]
- The Internal Revenue Service is apparently preparing a report of Vice President Agnew's net worth, a device used by the service to determine whether there has been an evasion of income taxes. Such a net worth report was prepared on Dale Anderson, Mr. Agnew's successor as Baltimore County Executive, who was indicted for tax fraud last week. The existence of the investigation has become known through I.R.S. attempts to collect details of even minor income transactions by the Vice President. [New York Times]
- A white cab driver was stabbed to death in Boston's predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood as the city tried to quiet racial fears set off by the recent murders of two other whites. [New York Times]
- Shocked by the murders of three white people within a week, the white minority on the troubled resort of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands has begun to demand that the black government impose stringent new measures to end the violence, in which 18 persons, all but two of them white, have died. [New York Times]
- Another Alaska pipeline battle is brewing even as oil companies await final congressional approval of the controversial 789-mile pipeline from the state's oil-rich North Slope to Alaska's west coast. The new controversy involves a proposal to tap the area's natural gas deposits with a 2,000-mile pipeline over an entirely different route. [New York Times]
- President George Papadopoulos dismantled Greece's military junta to make way for the first all-civilian cabinet since the military seized power six years ago. The new government being formed by Spyros Markezinis, who will serve as premier, contains none of the president's colleagues from military junta. [New York Times]
- Widespread raids and arrests continued throughout Chile in the junta's drive to locate key leftist leaders and arms caches. In one operation, authorities said 35 extremists were arrested at a guerrilla training camp 300 miles north of Santiago. [New York Times]