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The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 2

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4 I 2 111 BrV1iir Fs1i', Minuter, IW 30, 1 1 Smrkovsky Loses Union Support; Ills Hackers Called Dissidents ie I i i 1 4 ul tint in lutclli tn iU 1 o'lur U'iu I 1 1 rJ In pirvrnt Sim kov- kv (If mill ioii lioi (hi of I po.iPi tv It im) rc ffilti (I (do-iiwitK Mm If It uiilffl linn ly the Illinium. Soy Arm! (leinix r.itn No denUM ruth if pie me 1 ic 1 1 1 a on-ei atl ve it 1 mi I iv Ml 1 timw 4t 'ftp I I 1 Hanoi Sees No Talks Fill 1969 PARIS l'l Hanoi mils taul incliiy llwy exjir.i no fiillnr i' Nm In l( Inaiiii Ilk on i jrne 1 fin mi. (I, .1 II Ix-fnie lie Mail of in je tr Cl" eis lilt (M Ur I' 1 'I wn il imii oyer 1 mi rules foi i Ii eaiil it 1 IlII an 0, on if non Itn I'm 1 fen in 1 oi Cl 1 1 1 l'ii 1 i. deal ly two On II, 11 1 1,1 .01 Ilf ho (. 1 III- tci III jrorj lalfi I in 1 1 si 1 tley do there Would hf anv subs1 ml.

al fuo.re (04 ir.J tniLog the n.ir before Hie ViMnumcse di i 1 ons have a churn to assess Ihe negotiating povtue of Hie xnn ad.nimstra'lon A US legation Cifheia! said ro meeting between Ambassador Cjxus It ance and Hanoi lot Ha Van Lau is now Uled but another priva'e session (ou'd be 1 abed by eiher side ai anv time amc who met with Kaigun enviiv Inain Hang lam balur-div fotlowmg corisultaions wi'h Preside lit Johnson and oilier leaders In Washington, con-fernd bv loll phono with Lam a.des said repor'ed Johnson's that, as the President pit givernment desires pioress towaid an peace and wapts to all of (his drdy dallying" table arrangements and 4 Slovaks had a vliluul i tug i live! Soviet turning He mint ry aprarent efSiit lo win huvif-t piiln ai laid SmrkoVskk demotion delrgati in, ent by the last August to hoslovakia, spent Sunil three lactones and paity officials in areas delegation visited Ihe of Mm avia shortly steel workers there Smrkovsky. secretariat of the Slovak Imon Council Sunday the demand of the party that a Slovak be one of the three top No voice vet has that either of the government leaders, laidvik Svoboda or Oldnch Cermk, give up to Slovaks. Inehanged vV MtU.li: Illll-! lee ter wemnl tily Pul ul n't (miI In jl in ilu jultlcm" to (limp p.t'i.im'ii-Ury rrf-ntrnt Jo ft Smikovyky rn knl tuner (onful be tccn JjUiuU ml pin ow tf nerviilive in the Im In sk government 1)1 'lift fk ill -k) If halrnrun 6f lh ic SdMm.il ocimil, nude II i bar the ri onl Iratld union rryt-pipcr I re. ii mu km a '1 rep oral 1 Netiirf. of ovexni began turning gmst I im sol Pis supporter isidents who brought on chaos and emu Ju insky condemned efforts to mine user ftom supreme tut function one of Uie leading politicians of Die post January period, who is inioperably linked ttth Its democratic and progressive ideals, and to restrict his influence He said the qaesion of S'ovak vv Czech in h'gh posts has been used to conceal the actual strugg'e and could lead to unnecessary pohlual teision If, therefore, another candidate, a Slovak, is put up against turn, it will have a negative effect on the Czech public and this will be projected on a broader national sca'e." Jnin-skv said Jicincky rejected an accusa-t on by Slovak Communist Tarty leader Gustav Husak that ma.saye pro-Smrkovsky support rom auch groups as the workers union part pressure campaign 'll this Is regarded as a so- too low to have resulted Irom parliament called pressure group '1 nm a he Oi ami It Jn In ky 4id o'u i'h (lit rvu.lv II i rfk him le Pl0 rssivi Vs ti.it win tint li.

It fori ex" had tut le ii ue 1 it ii ss oi fi mi Soviet ml inva on anl sail WHO 's'lUllg 1 JOS, i'Ii at I ns uni mo lli.h'i for cv one nf the Cc i e- e's r.i wodkc n'-, Japaiut Call Idlest 11-Hlast China Cleanest TOKYO (AT) Japanese scientists said today they believe Communist Chinas latest hvdrogen bomb explosion was the cleanest of Chinas eight nuclear tests The Japanese Radioactivity Coiinermeasure I enter said this was indicated the lack of fallout registered In Japan since the bomb tas detonated J-riday over tie lop Nor testing grounds in western China. 1-allnut from China's seven previous nuclear tesls was deleted In Japan within two days after they were conducted 'lie ass! fiurn (Ii lidtJuMri in an auppoit fir to imUitle The Kremlin zei ly touring talking to lai The factory town after 40,000 endorsed The Trade supported Slovak named to sta'e offices suggested other two President Premier their positions Job Said northernmost main island. Bui parliament. ration law effect the i KKtkl.U IiOKIM; 707 of Middle Fast Airline it in front of Beirut Airport after it was denudi-diod in hr lraeli (oiiinundus Nalurdjv. It wa one of 11 reportedly destroyed in raid.

iuoiuttid lr JT irt pholo) Arabs Continued I rum Page 1 U.S. Meeting Queen Elizabeth 2 Fails Keels Again Second Set of Sea Tests On Captives IJ)NDON (UPI) The 72 the rolors of fhrir million Queen hllzabeth 2 turbines vvere believed demnation from all sides of its commando raid on the Beirut a rqiort. Israel on Sunday prom iscd further ictaliation for rab attacks Premier Levi Uslikol detlaied that Israel will defend itself against aggression "in the place where it is planned and carried the like out "States which make It possible for the terror organizations to organize and perpetrate acts of terror bear the responsibility for aggression, a responsibility which ttiey cannot disclaim," he said. today, ance Vica it, the substanial honorable cut out about Clues I11 steam a few steamed home from the Canary thousandths of an inch out of Islands at half speed today to a line The 65 000 ton liner was originally due to make a short charity cruise before Christmas, Since the federall- TtVpmnt'to aeur'e theVeieae Cunard woum refuM 10 1 preview cruis Jn- 10 and provkiei that the old Cf three Amertt an prisoners of voa8e t0 Se" Yoik rnaemyrmiSe1 freednm the vibrations on her The oil leak forced cancella- first voyage her speed had to be tton of the chanty cruise cut lo slightly more than one Armed Forces Radio, head- mie an hour, quarters said a cease fire would be observed around the meeting will become In Chamber of Peoples, Smrkovsky would remain in his same post, Pravda pointed out. However, Smrkovsky would be under the chairman of the entire and no longer the cut Sir Basil said the difficulties meant that the The liners severe shuddering Queen would make neither the Ihe second major in cruise Jan.

10 and Sought Robbery From Brink's parliament was mishap scheduled Jan. 19 or the Jan 17 a month. vnvage at a cost to the one of the top four national miles northwest of Sai- jesg p)an BOSTON (AI) The BI examined a key and police visited underworld hangouts today for a clue in the hijacking of some $400,000 from a Brink's armored Two Guerrillas He Id Ilshkol and Israel ambassador to the Imted Nations, Miab-tai Rosenne, said Saturday's raid was retaliation for the Arab terrorist attack on an 111 AI airliner at Athens airport car only four blocks from the Thursday Greek authorities are scene of the 1 2 million Brink's holding two Palestinian guerril- robbery in 1930 las who lived in Lebanon for the Two men used a key Saturdav grenade and automatic rifle at- night to open the door of the tack on the plane, which killed parked truck, surprising a one Israeli passenger. guaid. Richard Haines.

43, nf The UN Secunty Counc.l Tewksbury, who was a'one met in urgent session Sunday the vehicle while his two team- leaders Observers said they 8 The ship developed a leak In builders and Cunard doubted this lower post would To ensure the safety of t. 0)j ysmm which conlamlnat- million satisfy the dozens of groups who prisoners and the participants pj lhe wa(er suppy to its have Issued resolution and from the opposing side," the bcwlnrw on Its initial sea trials US announcement said, "a cor- cai)v in Dnmber. ridor to the meeting place, free Labor party members of of military action on the part of parliament John Rankin and the allies from 8 a until three Jflhn Cronln asked in the House 97- rwsocla hours after the meeting ends, 0j Commons during the week- Vul. will be established cnd jf ther(, would be an inquiry The Command said It as- because of potential damage Ilf TpfllllPI sumed the Viet Cong would rend done to the reputation of '-1 an equal number of unarmed Britain shipbuilding Industry." representatives to the meeting G0 Tnday crash of a North of 12 dispatched delegations to Smrkovsky' office to demand he remain in top power. Soviet Pay IJoowt (P) The Soviet government gave some 9 million workers in the building trades and related Industries an New Years gift today a and that there wilt be ho unexpected wage increase ranging up to 23 per cent The big boost, another example of the Increasing use of material incentives in the Soviet economy, raises the average construction worker's weekly othejiw nit's military forces within six ter night and appealed headed for a mates took a coffee break followed an Central Airlines prop-jet rose' to condemning Israel at an- Police said the robbers could bv Km BSsil 27 today when Sheldon Ray, In meeting tonight.

Im- not have entered the truck if in- of a mile one kilometer of the announcement Their nuestions inooneement bassador JR Uiggins told the side bolts on the doois of the his government stiong- Ruck had been latched None of condemns the attack and "is the bolts were in place when the to support prompt ac- robberv took place, by the Secunty Council to tors said this latest Israeli ac- A Lev was later found at the scene of the robberv Company Washington, piesidential ofnuals said it was not issued Walt W'. Rostow re- bv Bunk's that Piesident Johnson Felix A Savage Jr manager of Brink's Boston office, said as near as I can ascert on tl total (taken) will be in the aiea the attack serious unwise Rostow said the States told Israel it is meeting place Smallpeice, chairman of' the crlRcal condition since the The meeting will be held in Cunard Line, that the shipping crash, died of what hospital the same open field in which company could not accept the ofRcials called "multiple frac-U and Viet Cong representa- vessel fiom its builders in early lures tives met for 2'j hours Christ- January-, as scheduled, because Rav, 22, of Bellevue, Neb, salary from about 29 rubles to ms Dav That time Ihev failed it was not up to Cunard died at Holy Family Hospital. 36 rubles, or from $3190 at the to teach agreement on arrange- standings Eighteen persons still were offinal rate of exchange to ments for release of the prison- Both of the ships engines hospitalized as a result of the 39 60 ers weie reported crippled because crash at O'Hare Airport, one In po-ted critical condition Six of the dead were still unidentified An investigator Sunday said the flight recorder from the Convair 580 gave significant clues to the cause of the crash. council ly prepared Ron condemn tion In assistant 0 considered and United a forces to grave matter for regular of $800,000 of the government of Israel attack a civil intei national airport a country which The robbery was the 13th of a has been striving toward mod- rnnncy express tiuck in eastein eration in the Middle East Massachusetts since 1950 The ambassador to Leba- The robbeis handcuffed non, Dwight Porter, called on Raines wrists and manacled Lebanese Premier Abdullah Yafi to discuss how- the United States could help Lebanon re-stoie its commercial air fleet, the embassy announced Hplicopter-boine Isiaeli commandos destioyed 13 Lebanese cat go and passenger planes, more than half the countrys civil an line fleet, 111 the 45 minute raid Saturday' night They first cleat ed the parked planes of passengers One casualty was reported, a guard who was wounded slightly him the back of the truck, diove several blocks to a paik-mg lot near the Registry of Motor Vehicles, Ransfcired the money into a vehicle dmen by iAjluid man and fled, Haines said He was disaimed, but police said thev found his gun and those belonging to the other guaids in the Ruck Haines told police he 01 bed Ins way out of the handcuffs and walked to the Metropolitan Dis-tnct Commissions lower Basin Good Recording John Reed, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board and a former governor of Maine, said Sunday the tape was one of the finest recordings of any of our major accidents However, hf said the tape could not be made public because it had not yet provided a complete answer to why the crash occurred About 40 investigators aie looking into the crash. The recording contains the conversation between the OHare control tower and pilot Marvin A Payne, who was killed in the crash.

Reed told A news conference Sunday investigators still did not know why the jet made a sharp left turn just before the crash during its final approach to the runway. Lebanon claimed the de- p0U(e station near the Registiy stroyed an craft were worth more than $30 million, and Arab and Soviet bloc countries at the Security Council meeting demanded that Israel be required to pay compensation The loot was carried in thiee metal cases and 50 canvas mon The Textile Store cy hags. Brink's officials said. Police Commissioner Edmund McNamara estimated about 20 minutes elapsed from the time the bandits drove off the armored car until the other two guaids returned from theif coffee break WHEELS? Shoe Salon Semi-Annual 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 "0 an we not' can Happy and i tv If your family or your business could use extra car but youre low on cash, peftaps can help. A great many folks here in the Berk-shires buy with an auto loan from us.

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