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News stories from Sunday November 11, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton said that "the odds are better than 50-50" that the federal government would institute gasoline rationing "within the next two or three months." He appeared on the "Issues and Answers" television program. Charles DiBona, deputy to John Love, the White House energy chief, said almost the same thing on a Washington television program. He said that if the present cut-off of oil supplies by Arab nations continued, "the probabilities of having gas rationing before the winter is over are very high." [New York Times]
- President Nixon plans to meet this week with all 234 Republicans in Congress and answer all their questions about Watergate and related matters. A spokesman for the President confirmed that a series of six meetings on Watergate was scheduled after Senator Charles Percy, Illinois Republican, disclosed the President's plans. [New York Times]
- Federal court hearings on the secret White House tapes have raised serious doubt among legal authorities that many of the tapes will ever be usable as evidence in future Watergate criminal trials. The fact-finding sessions before Judge John Sirica, which go into their third week tomorrow, have failed thus far to establish whether two missing conversations between President Nixon and aides were inadvertently unrecorded, as the White House insists, or conveniently mislaid, as the Watergate prosecutors have suggested, but not charged. The recordings may have lost much of their potential evidential nature. [New York Times]
- Egypt and Israel signed the cease-fire agreement sponsored by the United States and immediately began direct discussion on carrying it out. The discussions marked the first time since the 1949 armistice that higher officers of the two warring nations met in negotiations over issues larger than the establishment and maintenance of local cease-fire agreements. [New York Times]
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