News stories from Sunday October 28, 1973

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

An apparent conflict between President Nixon and his acting Attorney General, Robert Bork, over the independence of a new special Watergate prosecutor could delay the naming of a replacement for Archibald Cox unless it is resolved soon. In an interview, Mr. Bork said specifically that he thought that anyone placed in charge of the Watergate investigation should have the option of subpoenaing, as Mr. Cox did, presidential documents to which he was entitled and that were needed as evidence in a prosecution. Mr. Bork indicated that he might resign from the Justice Department "if a special prosecutor were set up with his independence interfered with." [New York Times] Violent air currents in the wake of jumbo jetliners have caused more than 20 smaller planes to crash, according to government officials. As the big jets approach or take off from airports, their wings leave behind two churning cylinders of air that some pilots say have the force of a cyclone. This force, called "wake turbulence", is posing problems for air safety officials. [New York Times] Relationships between the United States and China have in no way been affected by the Watergate affair, Premier Chou En-lai assured C.L. Sulzberger of The New York Times in a two-and-a-quarter-hour interview. The Premier appeared to be extraordinarily well briefed on American domestic and foreign affairs, and was skeptical about the possibility of achieving any kind of lasting settlement in the Arab-Israeli war, and was also critical of Soviet "expansionism" abroad and "fascism" in his own country. [New York Times] Israel agreed to allow the encircled Egyptian III Corps to be resupplied by truck convoy. The agreement came, according to well-placed official sources, after the United States told the Israeli government Friday night that the Soviet Union had threatened to save the Egyptian force, which is surrounded on the east bank of the Suez Canal. Israeli censors would not allow correspondents to file information on the exact nature of the Soviet threat or details of the Soviet plan. [New York Times] President Anwar Sadat of Egypt sent Ismail Fahmy, a senior career diplomat, on a trip to Washington. Mr. Fahmy was believed to be carrying a message from Mr. Sadat to President Nixon, but this could not be confirmed. Just before his departure, Mr. Fahmy conferred with Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, the ranking United Nations officer in Egypt, who informed him that the first contingent of United Nations forces entered the city of Suez this afternoon, after having been delayed by an Israeli roadblock since Saturday morning. [New York Times]