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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN NEWS SUMMARY November 9, 1973 (Nets, wires. Digest separate.) The major stories of the day: - Israel and Egypt agreed to 5-pt. c-f agreement that could produce peace talks on settlement by the end of the year. Led NBC/ABC (#5 CBS) w/Chancellor calling it "all in all an extremely hopeful piece of news. 11 What Egyptian spokesman called the "HAK plan" provides for POW exchange, Egyptian access by "corridor" to 3rd Army, end to Arab Red Sea blockade, no w/drawals from present positions. And these steps are to lead to direct negotiations. US officials w/HAK said they hoped agreement would be implemented w/in 4-5 days. Nets over silent films of HAK at Pyramids and w/Hussein noted what Kalb called his "buoyantly optimistic" mood. Also film of Sisco briefing Meir on all nets w/him expressing optimism. - Cronkite led CBS (short note on ABC/NBC) by saying 11 a year ago big labor contributed materially to RN's return to office. Now it's seeking to remove him. 11 AFL-CIQ in newsletter sent to leaders but not membership asked 13 1/2/members to put pressure on MCs to impeach him. RN's charged w/19 offenses from such specifics as establishing his own "special secret police" and having CRP extort illegal contri- butions to consistently lying and using his office for personal enrich- ment. CBS did note WH said action's "ill-conceived and can only result in harming US at home" and expressed confidence AFL-CIO membership will reject "unseemly attempt to manufacture impeachment fever" (ABC note). - Rose Woods -- whom ABC described as "always ferociously loyal" to RN - and HRH differed on the quality of tapes, RMW calling it so bad in places she couldn't call her work a transcript, HRH saying quality of the sound was fair and good enoughto get the general meaning -- "it has its ups and downs. 11 But, NBC's Stern reported RMW's testimony revealed to prosecutors a "significant discrepancy" that "strongly suggests" someone'"interrupted' the taping mechanisms in the hours before or after the RN-Dean conversation of 4/15. RMW apparently worked on a tape from April 16th that was timed to function automatically only on April 17th. To prosecutor Ben-Veniste that meant it was obvious tapes were being switched from 1 machine to another. Yet, noted Stern, WH logs reflect no such activity, hinting that perhaps RN used the recording system to make tapes that have