News stories from Saturday November 10, 1973

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

Egypt and Israel have agreed to sign a six-point American-sponsored cease-fire agreement tomorrow afternoon on the Cairo-Suez road, a spokesman for the United Nations Emergency Force announced in Cairo. It will be the first signing of an important joint document by Egyptian and Israeli representatives since the armistice agreement was negotiated in Rhodes in 1949. The signing, originally scheduled for today, was postponed to give Israel time to ask the United States for some "clarifications" on some of the six points. [New York Times] Secretary of State Kissinger, his attention turned away from the Middle East, arrived in Peking and assured Premier Chou En-lai that the United States was determined "to complete the process" of normalizing relations with China as rapidly as possible. Twice during a short banquet toast, Mr. Kissinger seemed to be hinting at an intensified American effort during his three days of talks in Peking to surmount the obstacles still blocking full diplomatic relations between China and the United States. [New York Times] The Nixon administration's minority capitalism program is under federal investigation for alleged bribes and kickbacks. The Department of Justice is looking into the charges, and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have already interviewed some of the program's present and former officials and staff members. The charges of political and criminal activity have been turned over to the special Watergate prosecutor's office. In addition, the Senate Watergate committee heard testimony last week that the minority capitalism program had been used to reward supporters and punish nonsupporters of the administration in the minority business community. [New York Times] An investigation is underway at the Department of Housing and Urban Development where top officials have been charged with violating the law by appointing political favorites to career civil service jobs. Two teams of investigators, one from the Civil Service Commission and the other from within H.U.D. have been interrogating employees across the country and scouring the files for incriminating memos and letters. H.U.D. employees have charged that a departmental team in Washington, headed by Special Assistant to the Secretary, W. Stanley Armstrong, has obtained high-salaried and influential jobs in local H.U.D. offices for administration favorites. [New York Times] Governor Rockefeller ordered the immediate reduction today of legal speed limits on all New York state highways and parkways to 50 miles an hour, in keeping with President Nixon's plan to conserve fuel. He urged the state's mayors and county and town officials to take similar action. [New York Times]