and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pled no contest to charges of income tax evasion on $29,500 he received in 1967, while he was governor of Maryland. He was fined $10,000 and put on 3 years probation. While Agnew continued to proclaim his innocence of all charges, he wrote in a letter to U.S. President Nixon that "As you are aware, the accusations against me cannot be resolved without a long, divisive and debilitating struggle, I have concluded that, painful as it is to me and my family, it is in the best interests of the nation that I relinquish the office of the Vice Presidency." Multiple witnesses had disclosed to federal prosecutors that they had given bribes to Agnew when he was Governor of Maryland, and even after he became Vice President, in hopes of remaining eligible for state and federal engineering contracts. One reported that he had gone to Agnew's vice-presidential office and handed him $2,000 in cash while verbally calling it "a political contribution". The Soviet Union began airlifting military supplies to Egypt and Syria to replace equipment lost in the first days of the Yom Kippur War. The U.S. responded two days later with aid to Israel. The U.S. Senate voted, 75 to 20, to pass the War Powers Act, prohibiting the U.S. President from committing American troops to battle for more than 90 days without authorization by Congress, and to be able to end military action by a majority vote, not subject to veto. The House of Representatives approved the bill two days later, 238 to 123. President Nixon vetoed the bill on October 24, but both houses voted to override the veto. The New York Mets won the fifth game of the best-3-of-5 National League Championship Series, with a 7 to 2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Born: S. S. Rajamouli (Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli), Indian film director and screenwriter known for blockbuster films, including the Baahubali action series; in Manvi, Mysore State Mario Lopez, American actor, television personality known for Saved by the Bell as a teenager, and later as host of The X Factor; in Chula Vista, California Died: Ludwig von Mises, 92, Ukrainian-born American economist and sociologist October 11, 1973 (Thursday) The White House received a phone call from 10 Downing Street asking if U.S. President Richard Nixon would be available to speak with the Prime Minister of the United