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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I sacrificing Washington up president Nixon announced saturday that he will make a nationwide television address Sun Day evening to disclose a series of Steps to meet the Energy crisis. He said they will involve some sacrificing on the part of the american people. Nixon said that he would speak briefly at 7 . Est sunday 1 . Monday get to outline measures to Cope with gasoline and fuel Oil shortages. Related stories on Page 2. Reporters and photographers were summoned to the Oval office for picture taking at 10 30 ., about a half hour after he met with White House Energy adviser John a. Love and Domestic affairs adviser Melvin r. Laird to discuss recommendations of the Energy emergency action group. Ill have an announcement with regard to the Energy problem sunday night he said. Nixon made it Clear that there is a Gen eral agreement within the administration on the ways in which the nation will have to tighten its Energy demands to eke out the dwindling fuel supplies. Everyone will have to cooperate and will have to do some sacrificing said Nixon. He said love would Brief reporters Sun star&andcsiripes&v3p authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 32, no. 221 is Dally and sunday sunday november 25, 1973 d if 21855 a Navy does its part boiler tender . Kern g. Mauldin of Morrow ga., lights off liquid Coal fuel in a boiler during the test phase of project Seacola i on the destroyer Johnston. It became the first combat ship to be pow ered by Coal since the 1920s, and it is part of the Navy s plan to help soften the Energy shortage. Up photo Nixon will Tell Steps to meet fuel crisis Day afternoon on the government Steps. The president returned from Camp David Friday night to huddle with love and Laird on the Energy panel s recommendations which he had studied Over the thanksgiving Holiday and continuing to consider during the weekend. The Range of possibilities include a ban on sunday gasoline sales. Gasoline rationing As in world War ii. Fuel Oil rationing. Nationwide Daylight saving time. Chatting with love and Laird Nixon said the weather has been on our Side but he said he knew that it would not last. On nov. 7 Nixon delivered a nationwide television address in which he described the Energy shortage As a serious National problem a problem we must All face to Gether in the months and years  he said that the Middle East conflict had sharply altered the Supply picture for win Ter Oil and by the end of november More than 2 million barrels of Oil a Day that had been expected will no longer be available. Announcing his sunday address Nixon said we Are going to have to take Strong Tough  Nixon s office was on the Chilly Side apparently in keeping with his edict to keep the temperature Down to 68 degrees in the White House. New Speed Laws carefully heeded germans report by the associated press tight Speed limits went into effect on All West German highways saturday and police said Drivers were obeying the new limits with meticulous  on the eve of West Germany s first Sun Day driving ban traffic on expressways was unusually quiet police said. The new limit of 100 Kilometres an hour or 62 . On West Germany s dense autobahn system was unprecedented. Prior to saturday there was no Legal limit and speeds of More than 100 . Were common. On other highways a maximum of 80 pm. Or 50 . Was imposed Down from the previous Normal limit of 100 . Cologne police said radar checks on the City s autobahn ring showed Only three slight speeding violations among 3,000 measured vehicles. Traffic on the Cologne Frankfurt Auto Bahn was estimated at six vehicles per minute instead of the Normal figure of 30. But in Bavaria police reported stopping 40 speeders and said they were levying fines of 10 Marks or about $4 for every illegal Kilometre per hour Over the first three. One speeder had to pay 550 Marks or about $210, for driving 158 k.. Or about 98 . In Frankfurt motorists were forming lines of five and six cars at service stations to buy  on the last Day before sunday s driving ban. People who have documents to prove they need to drive to work sunday Are excepted from the ban. Police in North Rhine Westphalia said they were setting up Road blocks to Check papers and would seize the cars of violators. German television estimated about one vehicle in 50 would be on the Road sunday. Chancellor Willy Brandt warned West germans against underestimating the world Energy crisis As he went on nation wide television to Appeal for their cooperation in fuel saving measures. Brandt said private citizens will Bear the Brunt of the Energy saving program. Europeans Stock food from press dispatches millions of europeans stocked up on food saturday ready for a earless sunday that is Law in six countries. Italians who join the fuel saving Leisure driving ban dec. 1, rushed in the hundreds to buy bicycles and the dutch government told its countrymen to prepare for gasoline rationing. Dutch prime minister Joop Den Uyl said car owners will receive gasoline application papers Between nov. 26 and dec. 5, but the rationing Date had yet to be decided. Describing the situation As grim he said present ship movements indicated because of the Arab Oil Boycott the Netherlands Oil supplies will drop by 10 to 15 per cent within the next few Days. Civil servants will be Given dec. 24 and 31 off to save fuel in their offices Den Uyl said and the sunday driving ban now in its fourth week for dutchmen will be continued on Page 28, col. 1 five nations Trade monetary views Paris a finance ministers from the world s five richest nations met Satur Day in France for what a communique called an Exchange of views on the Long Range problems of the International Mone tary  French radio said the meeting is taking place at the Loire Valley Home of finance minister Valery Giscard d Estwing about 150 Miles South of Paris. The communique published by the French finance ministry was the first offi Cial word on the talks after spokesman for the participating nations the United states Britain France West Germany and Japan either denied that the meet ing was taking place or professed to have no knowledge of it. The meeting is in the framework of similar get together that allow joint re Flection on the future characteristics of the International monetary system the com Munique said. The French finance ministry said no statement would be made at the talks completion. There were indications they would continue on sunday. The participants were . Treasury Secretary George Shultz Chancellor of the exchequer Anthony Barber of Britain gis card d Estwing of France finance minis Ter Helmut Schmidt of West Germany and Joichi Inamura vice minister of finance of Japan who replaced finance minister Kiichi Aichi whose death was announced Friday. A qualified informant described the meeting As not being concerned with topical  How about that letter to Santa letters to Santa Claus continue to flow into and out of the european Bureau of Santa s workshop. I yours in yet the Bureau working in a secret room at stars and stripes is for warding every child s letter to Sant Claus sending out Santa s personal answers and making a note of Ever child s name. These names will be printed in stars and  should Send their letters to Santa s workshop stars an stripes Apo 09175. Parents should make certain children s return addresses Are legible  
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