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The black woman's A 24-page special section on skiing A quiz to help determine how honest you are fight for survival in the business world to4 and winter sports In Perspective In Lifestyle mm i mm i Final Edition OREATBST NEWSPAPER THE D'S Sunday, October 21, 1973 40' WllYMr Nr. 291 i 1973 CWcajo Triune 17 "toil 7T7 de A mes crisis exMo JL Hip m' -ii AP Wireptiolo Archibald Cox gestures during a press conference yesterday morning. Cox was fired that night. -11 iff)- (f fa fe Mo ally vyj Uuviy vauuv iw cffi. tflnnn i a i iiiiiiiiii iiii.

"vi i i as i i i a -v A I i I 111 111 I 11 XI- AP Vvtreptiofo Elliot Richardson waves as he leaves the Justice Department last night. 4 Nixon steers collision course HJ on the tapes isue suggested by Nixon. RICHARDSON, who had served Nixon in two other cabinet posts before taking over the Justice Department last May, announced earlier in the day that he did not support the compromise Nixon had said he proposed and which Cox had rejected. As Cox's immediate superior, Richardson told the President in a letter, he could not go back on pledges that the special. prosecutor would have full authority to conduct the investigation.

After Richardson's resignation, Ruckelshaus. the no. 2 man in the Justice Department, also declined to carry out the President's directive io fire Cox, and he. too. was fired.

Nixon then named Bork. a former Yale law professor, as acting attorney general and ordered him to fire Cox. CLEARLY THE government of the United States cannot function if the employes of the Continued on page fi, col. 3 ment would cany out Cox's work with "thoroness and vigor." A TEAM of FBI agents immediately sealed off Cox's office, presumably to protect the large amount of evidence already prepared. Cox.

who was at home, issued a terse one-sentenced reply: "Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people." Henry Ruth, deputy special prosecutor, said the agents had moved in 30 minutes after Cox's office was abolished and had refused to let the staff remove even personal papers. "One thinks that in a democracy this could not happen," said Ruth. The dramatic moves by a reportedly angry President were announced at 7:45 p. m. Chicago time, after more than 24 hours of haggling over whether Cox and his boss, Richardson would accept a proposed compromise By Glen Eisasser Chlcaso Tribune Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct.

20 President Nixon fired Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox tonight, Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and Deputy Atty. Gen. William Ruckleshaus was then fired after he refused Nixon's order to dismiss Cox.

The shocking developments came in rapid fire fashion after Cox pointedly refused to obey Nixon's order to stop seeking the disputed White House tape recordings of conversations between the President and Watergate principals. Nixon's action left Cox's sweeping Watergate probe in shambles and threw it back into a stunned. Justice Department under the direction of United States Solicitor General Robert II. Bork, whom the President designated to succeed Richardson temporarily. Nixon promised the depart By Harry Kelly Chicaw Tribune Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct.

20 President Nixon's angry scrapping of the independent special Watergate investigation has propelled him into a collision course with Congress. Republican leaders had warned him earlier that unless he worked out a compromise on the Watergate tapes that avoided the appearance of defying the courts, the President faced a greatly increased possibility of impeachment action. However, the President seemed to go out of his way today to raise the level of risk. In firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepting the resignations of one of two men regarded as the "Mr. Cleans'' of the administration, Atty.

Gen. Elliot Richardson, and firing the other, Deputy Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus Nixon must have been aware of the potential consequences. HE ALSO OPENED himself to the charge, fairly or not, that he must have considered the independent investigation and the surrender of the tapes politically and.

legally more dangerous than the harrowing sweep at the Justice Department. When the Watergate cauldron was bubbling hottest, with new developments in the scandal printed daily, it was Republicans like Sen. Barry Goldwater and Cha 'les Percy led the demand for the appointment of a special prosecutor. When Richardson was swiftly transferred from his job is undersecretary of state to head the Watergate-bruised Justice Department, he assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would give Cox a completely independent hand to run a thoro investigation sparing no one. One member of that committee, Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy Mass. indicated the way Senate Democratic liber- Conlimicd on page 3, col. 5 UP I Telepholo William RacKelshaus, who was fired by President Nixon for re fusing to fire Cox, leaves Justice Department. Egypt Army split in 2 Israeli force pours across Suez Canal fW i vdir i vrrrrt is yf? lAl I U0 I 1 A A i Index Arts Fun Sec.

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12 Sports Sec. 3 Travel Sec. 4 TV Week Sec. 10 Detailed Index on page 2 Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Mostly sunny Sunday; high, lower 70s; fair Sunday night; low, near 50; southeast ta southerly winds 10 to 15 m. p.

h. Monday: Mostly sunny; high, in 70s. Map and other reports on 45. Israel says its armored spearhead has punched to within 45 miles of Cairo. Page 2.

Tribune Correspondent Donald Kirk is expelled from Syria after being accused by secret police of spying. Page 12. Reporter Rick Soli lours the Israeli forces on the Syrian front and finds it an evil place for the war of waiting that is being waged there. Page 20. By Philip Caputo Chicago Tribune Press Service WITH ISRAELI FORCES ON SUEZ CANAL, Oct.

20 Today I became the first American corresponded to stand by the banks of the Suez Canal, and see an Israeli counteroffensive surging over a bridgehead on its way to smash an Egyptian army. Accompanied by an escort, officer and two West German newsmen, I saw a large convoy moving toward the waterway. Trucks, tanks, halftracks, Jeeps, and self-propelled artillery were backed up on a desert highway. Troops, vehicles, and armor were being loaded on mobile barges, and readied for the crossing. Overhead Israeli Phantom and Mirage jets screeched at trectop level, blasting Egyptian positions with 500-pound bombs or flying cover for the AP from Titss men and equipment advancing into Egypt.

During the two hours I spent observing the operation, the Egyptians hardly showed a sign of resistance. FLIGHT AFTER flight of Israeli jots swept in, but encountered only token Kissinger, irc; hnev confer on Mideast Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brcznev chat informally Continued on page 2, col. 3 yesterday prior to a private meeting on the situation in the Mideast. Story on page 7..