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-S SUNDAY APRIIi '5, 1970 i Mm Mm warn IBamks $2 SPo 7 1717 USB wmwni B6 (is By WILLIAM FEDERICI Fingerprints found on several unexploded pipe bombs discovered over a period of several months secreted in key city government locations have been matched with those of two college students who blew themselves up in a "bomb factory" on the lower East Side last week. The discovery of the bombs was kept secret while police sought to link them to one of "many radical groups bent on terrorizing- the city, and now this has been done," a top police official revealed. iUV 'r Jit NEWS photos by Joe Perullt The injured are treated inside Seventh Ave. IRT station at Times Square after riot, which started at Panther rally in Long Island City, Queens, spread to subway. Patrolman I takes rioter into custody.

Assistant Chief of Detectives Albert Seedman refused direct comment as to which terrorist group was believed responsible, but said: "We are working around the clock on the bombings and the results will be known soon." Seedman said that palm and finger prints of Godwin A. Bernard, one of the victims of the E. Fifth St. bomb factory explosion were matcher with prints wound on pipe bombs planted in city government locations as well as a Bronx branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank two weeks ago. Bernard, 23, who is known also as Bernard A.

Godwin, lost both arms and a leg in the explosions that ripped through the tenement apartment. He is held on a murder charge because his co-conspirator and roommate, Ishmael Brown, 23, was killed in the blast. Brown was identified by police as the man who planted an anti VgdqoGuDs Usitifill Cps Twice Iteo IPaoBfiteir My Mere By HUGH WY ATT and VINCENT LEE Youths steamed up by oratory at a Queens rally to support the Panther 21 battled cops at the 45th Rd. and Court House Square station in Long Island City and the Times A i' i 1 HI 1 -r-i-km i i i lite square terminus oi me uisning litl SUDway yesterday, The screaming melee in Loner Island City sent six city cops to St. John's and Elmhurst General Hospitals.

One city patrolman was sent to St. Vincent's Hospi j5 tal and six: Transit Authority cops to St. Clare's Hospi- tal from Times Square. Nine; demonstra-' tors were ar- rested in Times Square and six in Long Island Godwin A. Bernard Held on bomb murder chart in three Manhattan skyscrapers last month.

Unexploded bombs, similar to the E. Fifth St. type, were discovered Friday in the Banco de Ponce branch in East Harlem and on a South Bronx street. Still Hunt for Cathlyn Meanwhile the hunt continued for Cathlyn Wilkerson, 25, who escaped her father's Greenwich Village townhouse on W. 11th St.

on March 6 as a series of dynamite bomb explosions demolished the house and killed three young militants, members of the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Cathy is sought for questioning here and as a fugitive from both Chicago and federal authorities on riot charges. Police said there was no apparent connection between the two "bomb factories." personnel bomb in the Electric Circus, an East Village discotheque, on March 22, injuring 17 persons. His prints too were said to have been found on several of the pipe bombs. Both men, seniors at City College, were believed to be connected with black nationalist organizations but, according to detectives, they were not known to be members of the Black Panther Party, despite Panther paraphernalia found in the debris along with other bombs, weapons and ammunition.

According to Seedman, all the bombs found "are almost exact in construction." The bombs are described as 12 to 16 inches long, about two inches in diameter, stuffed with a black powder and clock-timed. Police do not believe, at this time, there is any connection between this group and the terrorists who set off dynamite bombs attempting to arrest a youth identified later as Jeffrey Herf, 22, of Milwaukee, as he sat in an alcove in the station and allegedly refused to move. Demonstrators surrounded the arrest scene demanding that the youth be freed, cops said. A general melee broke out, principally on the mezzanine above the IRT platform, after cops allegedly threw the youth against the glass protecting a fire extinguisher. Cops Gun Seized Police sa'd two cops respond-irsr to a call of a riot from Transit Patrolmen William Fraser and David McWilliams, who were attacked by two youths, identified as Bruce Fraidowitz and Richard Okuendo.

Police said Fraidowitz seized Fraser's revolver and started to run with it. McWilliams, police said, wres- Continued on page 102, col. 1) Richard Moore, free in $100,000 bail as one of the 21 accused of a bomb conspiracy, told the crowd: "We're going to turn New York upside down ain't nothing to it but to do it." When the rally broke up, an estimated 2,000 Panther adherents streamed to subway stations in the area. Some 200 arriving at the 45th Road and Courthouse Square station began leaping turnstiles to avoid paying the fare. The efforts of two' TA cops and a sergeant to control them went for naught, police said.

The three TA cops alerted city police that trainloads of troublemakers were en route on theJ.5-minute trip to the Times Square end-of-the-line of -the Flushing IRT. As one train disgorged a load of the Panther supporters at Square, they spotted police Richard Moore City The fights were an outgrowth of a rally which began in Central Park Mall, continued as a mirch over Queensboro Bridge and culminated in the rally, in front of the Queens House of Detention in Long Island City. One of the speakers, Panther By THOMAS POSTER Crushing minor opposition, Liberal Party leaders rammed through their state ticket yesterday in a maneuver that gives the party five weeks to change its governor and senator candidates. he would "work for a candidate whose liberal views are for peace, against the Vietnam war and for solving the urban crisis." Liberal leaders are known to like GOP Sen. Charles E.

Goodc-11 for his opposition to President Nixon's Vietnam policy. Goodell, like Lefkowitz, bolted Marchi's mayoral candidacy to support Lindsay for reelection and might eventually emerge with the Liberal Party's endorsement for reelection. Th Democratic Donny brook: From the disarray, an array of candidate. See What in the World. Pag 36.

It was obvious that Lefkowitz was designated because he joined with the Liberals in supporting Mayor Lindsay for reelection after Lindsay lost the GOP primary to State Sen. John J. Mar-chi of Staten Island last year. Costello's Position In other actions, State Sen. Basil A.

Paterson of Harlem, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, and Democratic State Controller Arthur Levitt won unanimous Liberal designations. Costello had no trouble winning the Senate designation but he made it clear. that if should eventually decline the designation terday was made by Adam Walinsky, former Kennedy aide and Democratic designee for attorney general. He tried to make a speech before the Liberals balloted but was told his request was out of order. Then the Liberals followed their leaders' wishes and for the first time endorsed incumbent Republican Attorney General Louis J.

Lefkowitz. Lefkowitz trounced Walinsky in the voting and, unless he rejects the designation, he will be running on both the GOP and Liberal "lines in November. could still be named the Liberal nominee. The effect of the Liberal meeting yesterday, at the Hotel Roosevelt, was to block Goldberg from automatically winning the nomination. Endorse Lefkowitz Harrington, rector of the Community Church of New York and the first ordained minister to run for governor in modern times, easily defeated Basil Kyriakakis, Monroe County chairman, for the designation.

The only serious 'challenge1 yes The party's state committee overwhelmingly endorsed the Rev. Donald Harrington, its state chairman, for governor and Deputy Mayor Timothy Costello for senator. Blocks Goldberg for Now Both men pledged to run but at this time their candidacies are actually only a holding action. If Democratic gubernatorial designee Arthur J. Goldberg or any other candidate can prove himself a "true liberal independent of boss control," it was said, he.

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