News stories from Sunday November 4, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- A year after President Nixon's landslide re-election victory, Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts became the first Republican Senator to publicly urge Mr. Nixon to resign. Mr. Brooke said he had "reluctantly" concluded that the President should resign "in the interests of this nation." In other developments in the increasing demand for the President's resignation, Time magazine, in its first editorial in its 50-year history, said that Mr. Nixon "and the nation have passed a tragic point of no return," and called on him to quit. [New York Times]
- President Nixon, secluded at his home in Key Biscayne, Fla., stood fast in the face of multiplying demands for his resignation. Gerald Warren, the deputy White House press secretary, said "the President intends to pursue his objectives in foreign policy, national policy and in clearing up the Watergate matter." He said the President was scheduled to return to Washington Monday evening. [New York Times]
- New Jersey's major-party candidates for Governor in Tuesday's election, carrying their battle for votes to the wire, confronted each other in two television debates. Brendan Byrne, the heavily favored Democrat, and Representative Charles Sandman, the Republican nominee, reiterated the stands they had previously taken on such issues as a state income tax, capital punishment and legalized abortion. The bitterness of the campaign was reflected in their demeanor. [New York Times]
- Secretary of State Kissinger is scheduled to leave Monday on a round-the-world trip that will take him to Cairo for crucial talks on strengthening the Middle East cease-fire and to Peking for a long-planned review of international affairs with Chinese leaders. He will visit nine countries in 10 days. [New York Times]
- The costliest war in her history is making Israel brace for a prolonged period of austerity. The war ended the nation's unprecedented economic boom, which began in 1967. Vast defense expenditures, manpower shortages and increased inflation are in Israel's immediate future, according to economic specialists. [New York Times]
- In the Netherlands, people roller-skated, bicycled, strolled six abreast or rode horseback through the streets of their cities. They also rowed in their canals, picnicked in the middle of empty superhighways and went to soccer games in horse-drawn coaches. Queen Juliana kept her 40 automobiles in the palace garage. That was how the Dutch responded to their first gasless Sunday since the Suez crisis of 1956. It was precipitated by the Arab boycott on oil exports to the pro-Israel Netherlands. [New York Times]
- France and Britain are sidestepping the issue of pooling oil with their European neighbors, including the Netherlands, even after that country has been deprived of two-thirds of its normal imports by an Arab boycott. Meetings will be held today and tomorrow in Brussels to discuss the sharing of oil in the Common Market, and the Dutch, with the Germans, who get much of their fuel via Rotterdam, are calling on the community to show "solidarity." [New York Times]