European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Sunday november 18, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 9 the week s news in review Energy crisis alaskan pipeline Bill signed Germany sunday driving ban Likely the Energy crisis had the world Over a barrel this week As. Many countries at tempted to put clamps on Energy and fuel use. Chancellor Willy Brandt indicated Fri Day that West Germany will ban driving on sunday nov. 25, and on some succeeding sundays As part of an emergency Effort to offset the shortage of Arab Oil. Brandt said the sunday driving ban was Only one of the Oil emergency Powers he had decided to use and he asked great understanding and Community spirit from his  German government after last week gaining parliament approved Emer gency Powers to decree such measures As driving bans autobahn Speed limits and heating Oil rationing expressed disappointment thursday that West germans Are ignoring the Call to conserve Oil products voluntarily and thus might Force the government to enforce the emergency measures. President Nixon Friday signed the controversial Alaska pipeline Bill which passed the Senate tuesday where backers said the Energy crisis overrode any concerns Over regulatory agencies. The measure cleared the Senate less than 24 hours after passing the House. The Bill authorizes private construction of an 789-mile Oil pipeline across Alaska. Oil companies say the line from the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields to the Gulf of Alaska can be completed by 1977 if a permit is issued this year. The alaskan pipeline Issue has been a controversial one from its inception. Environmentalists have fought the plan in handout of court claiming that the $4.5 billion project would destroy the largest and most primitive wilderness area of the country and threaten native Indian groups. In february a . Appeals court ruling on the Issue of right of Way restrictions inthe Federal mining leasing act of 1920, blocked construction of the multimillion Dollar system which would link Alaska s Oil Rich North slope with ice free ports 789miles to the South. Sparked by the Energy crisis the alas Kan pipeline Bill sailed through the Senate with an 80 to 5 vote. On wednesday the Senate passed a Sec Ond major Energy Bill requiring Nixon to allocate crude Oil and Petroleum products so that the neediest users will get what they need during the Energy crisis. American motorists were urged to slow Down and the Campaign to conserve Gaso line fuel Oil and electricity reached Ever Corner of the country. Many states lowered Speed limits on expressways and following the president s address to the nation nov. 7, All Drivers of official government vehicles including those in Europe were ordered to observe a 50 mile per hour Speed limit. In Washington sen. Gaylord Nelson d wis., cautioned the nation against com promising environmental standards adopted in recent years in a Panicky Rush to find simple but ineffective answers to Complex Energy  in London tuesday the British govern ment declared a state of emergency and warned the Public to expect gasoline rationing. A government spokesman said the rationing is not imminent but London news papers predicted ration books already distributed to Post offices throughout the country would be issued to the Public Mon Day. The Belgium government announced monday a ban on sunday driving which will Start today. Watergate the Senate watergate committee tues Day called for a meeting with president Nixon at his earliest convenience to ques Tion him on watergate matters and Mon Day Nixon said he will turn Over additional personal notes dictation belts and tape recordings to a Federal court. 1 Nixon s announcement monday marked his first major step in a newly announced Mideast cease fire signed egyptian and israeli generals met nov. 10 inside a . Tent at checkpoint Cairo a barbed wire desert Roadblock 60 Miles from the egyptian capital to sign a six Point cease fire agreement worked out by Secretary of state Henry Kissinger. The agreement was the first formal sign ing of any document in a face to face meet ing of arabs and israelis since 1949. The agreement which is considered a preliminary pact to full peace negotiations under . Auspices was not signed by Syria which accepted the . Cease fire but did not receive Kissinger. Egypt and Israel exchanged their first pos thursday As 44 egyptians and 26 israelis were released. They were the first of a week Long series of exchanges in which Egypt agreed to free 247 israelis including nine captured before 1970. Israel agreed to free 8,221 egyptians. The agreement does not apply to Syria. Friday israeli defense minister mos Edayan said Israel had offered Syria far reaching proposals to secure the release of its 127 pos. Syria would receive its 368 pos and the return of 15,000 syrian Vil lagers to their Homes in syrian territory occupied by Israel during the october War Dayan said. In London nov. 10, israeli prime minis Ter Golda Meir attended an emergency one Day conference of socialist party Lead ers from 20 countries and made an  world socialist support. In Tel Aviv tuesday mrs. Meir told the Knesset parliament that Israel  withdraw its forces to the lines of oct. 22, which she claimed was an egyptian soviet plan to lift the siege of Cairo s entrapped 3rd army. Committee requests meet with Nixon Federal judge rules Cox firing illegal Effort to Tell his Side of the watergate of. Several senators said thursday that fair and attempted to Clear up questions Nixon claims former atty. Gen Elliot l. Richardson lied in sworn testimony about Richardson s role in the ouster of  have been  said he would make the additional material available in an Effort to Clear up once and for All what happened in two crucial watergate related conversations. One tape concerned a meeting Nixon held with ousted White House counsel John w. Dean Iii on april 15, 1973 during which Dean testified that the president admitted discussing executive clemency As part of the watergate cover up. The other subpoenaed tape the White House says does t exist was a june 20, 1972 conversation be tween Nixon and former atty. Gen. John n. Mitchell. In other action Federal judge Gerhard a. Gesell ruled wednesday that acting atty. Gen. Robert h. Bork acted illegally in firing Archibald Cox As special watergate prosecutor. The ruling followed a hearing in which it was made Clear that Cox who returned to his Job at Harvard University Law school after being fired oct. 20, does not want the Job Back. Gesell issued the ruling on a suit brought by a Ralph Nader backed group which contested on constitutional grounds the fir ing of Cox by Bork. The White House denied that the presi Dent had called Richardson a liar said the. Senators who declined to be identified had misunderstood his remarks and added that Nixon had Only told the gop senators that the former attorney general had Given one of several versions of events sur rounding the Cox ouster. In other watergate related developments the House judiciary committee approved by voice vote tuesday Legisla Tion that would create a position for a court appointed special watergate prosecutor As Independent As you can get shrugging aside warnings that the Bill might invite a veto or a court ruling that it was unconstitutional the committee rejected on a 21-17 vote a Republican sponsored substitute that would have kept the special prosecutor under the jurisdiction of the executive Branch. The Bill scheduled for a floor vote on nov. 26, would have a three judge panel of the . District court for the District of Columbia choose a successor to  prosecutor Cox for a three year term and give the judges sole authority of dismissal. Nixon also planned sessions with All gop congressional members to explain his position on the watergate affair and attempt to bolster his support with them and the Public. During a session tuesday with 15 Sena tors sen. Edward w. Brooke r-mass., advised the president to resign. Sen. Marlow w. Cook of Kentucky said the tuesday meeting was very informal. We came right out and said the presi Dent s lawyers have been right out wrong about the watergate tapes he said. Sen. George d. Aiken of Vermont Dean of the Senate republicans said Nixon s manner was convincing. I think primarily that he is telling us the straight goods he said. Meanwhile vice president designate Gerald r. Ford declared tuesday that watergate has neither paralysed president Nixon nor made him a prisoner. Ford conceded that watergate has created a Public Confidence problem forthe president. But in his remarks to a National association of realtors in washing ton he predicted that both Nixon and the american political system will be exonerated when he said the full truth comes out. Princess married at Westminster Princess Anne the Only daughter of Queen Elizabeth married capt. Mark Phillips in London s Westminster Abbey thursday in a ceremony billed As the wedding of the year a congregation of 1,500 including 23members of foreign Royalty watched the 23-year-old Princess and her 25-year-old husband say traditional wed Ding vows in a ceremony conducted Byrd. Arthur Michael Ramsey the archbishop of Canterbury and primate of England and other High Church figures. The couple left the Abbey to Thun Derous cheers As they Rode together in the Glass coach Back to Buckingham Palace for the wedding breakfast a four course affair with Champagne forthe families and close friends. I