majority, the possibility remained that the veto could not be overridden. On November 7, however, the House would vote 284 to 135 to override and the Senate would follow the same day, 75 to 18. Canada's House of Commons voted, 119—106, to extend its limitation on capital punishment for an additional four years, or until December 28, 1977. The death penalty was limited to persons who killed prison guards or on-duty police officers. A new ceasefire went into effect in the Yom Kippur War at 7:00 in the morning local time in Israel and Egypt. Both sides had agreed to a ceasefire two days earlier, but full-scale fighting had resumed the next day. The U.S. television crime drama series Kojak, starring Telly Savalas, premiered with the first of 118 episodes over five seasons. Born: Jeff Wilson, New Zealand multisport athlete who played rugby union for the All Blacks and cricket for the Black Caps; in Invercargill Levi Leipheimer, American professional cyclist and two time U.S. national champion; in Butte, Montana Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer with 33 caps for the national team; in Glasgow Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist; in Colorado Springs, Colorado Meelis Friedenthal, Estonian author; in Viljandi, Estonian SSR October 25, 1973 (Thursday) Shortly after midnight, President Nixon ordered a worldwide military alert of all U.S. military forces after concluding that the Soviet Union was "planning to send a very substantial force" to intervene militarily against Israel in the Middle East war. Nixon said the next day, "The purpose of that was to indicate to the Soviet Union that we could not accept any unilateral move on their part to move military forces into the Mideast." Nixon sent an urgent message to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and explained "I indicated to him our reasoning, and I urged that we not proceed along that course and that, instead, that we join in the United Nations in supporting a resolution which would exclude any major powers from participating in a peacekeeping force."Brezhnev agreed to join the U.S. in supporting the resolution. "RUSSIANS AGREE TO KEEP TROOPS OUT OF U.N. MIDEAST TRUCE FORCE— A Confrontation Must Be Avoided, Moscow Is Told", Buffalo Evening News, October 25, 1973, p. 1 Egypt and Israel accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 340 as the UN created a peacekeeping force that would have neither Soviet nor American troops. The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 was