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2 The Berkshire Eagle. Monday. Jan. 19, 1070 Israel Keeps Up Raids On Egypt's Heartland More Aggressive Command Sought As Thieu Pushes Military Shake-Up fear Israeli reprisals. into government forces facing a growing North Vietnamese In Amman, the Palestine Armed Struggle Command reported that Arab guerrillas shelled an Israeli settlement south of the Dead Sea with heavy mortars for minutes Sunday and also an Israeli army camp south of the Dead Thieu also replaced 14 country's 44 province buildup of the Sea.

Hijacker a Problem bmI aBfciSI aw lafe HavPal iCrfwaMaw iHaavaHaV 'vaW wl Bb Hl wB HaY I aKPhJ rim jmmm-m WWWM TEL AVTV (AP) Israeli jets attacked Egyptian army outposts, artillery and antiaircraft guns in the central sector of the Suez Canal today, military spokesmen said. They reported that all planes returned safely from the 40-minute raid. Israel struck into the heartland of Egypt Sunday for the fourth time in two weeks, bombing "a large Egyptian military base" at Huckstep, 12 miles east of Cairo, and an equipment and ammunition storage area three miles from the industrial city of Helwan, the spokesmen said. Attack Acknowledged The Egyptian command acknowledged the attack at Huckstep, said the raiders did no damage, and claimed that Egyptian antiaircraft fire downed one Israeli Skyhawk and damaged another in the southern sector of the Suez Canal. Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat met in Beirut with Maj.

Gen. Jean Jimein, the new commander of the Lebanese army. Observers believe they are trying to prevent further deterioration of relations between the Lebanese government and the guerrillas operating against Israel from Lebanese territory. The guerrillas have charged they are being denied freedom of movement and action against Israel because the Lebansee A spokesman said guerrillas also attacked Israeli vehicles, patrols and advanced outposts in the northern Jordan Valley, inflicting heavy losses on the Israelis. He said one guerrilla was killed.

The Beirut newspaper Al Na-har also reported the Lebanese government is having second thoughts about the red carpet treatment it has been giving Christian Belon, the Frenchman who hijacked a TWA jet to Beirut. Foreign Ministry officials were reported fearful of damage to Lebanon's role as the communications hub of the Middle East. Belon, who said he hijacked the Boeing 707 on Jan. to focus world sympathy on Lebanon and the Arab cause, was re BREAD FOR THE HUNGRY reaohea eager hand it it distributed at Oniteha, Nigeria, a market town on the northern edge of the Biafran enclave. The federally held town has a large influx of refugees from the former rebel area.

AP Photo) Nigerians Treating Biafrans Mercifully, Thant and Emissary of Wilson Report Vietnamese patrol after the Americans had evaded enemy patrols for three days. A fourth man was still missing. Rescued were Capt. Bruce E. Porter, 23, of Hainesport, N.J., the pilot of the helicopter gun-ship; WO Larry M.

Ingle, 24, of Lima, Ohio, -the copilot; and Spec. 4 Richard Tipple, 20, of Lancaster, Ohio, a door gunner. Porter and Ingle were reported in satisfactory condition in a hospital, while Tipple did not have to be hospitalized. Their helicopter crashed into a mountainside 325 miles north of Saigon on Jan. 11 during monsoon rain and low visibility.

The U.S. Command also reported three more American helicopters were shot down last weekend and five af the crewmen were wounded. This brought the total number of U.S. planes and helicopters lost in Vietnam to 6,333, valued at between $6 billion and 37 billion, a U.S. spokesman said.

American troop strength in Vietnam has dropped to its lowest level since Oct. 28, 1967, the U.S. Command said. A weekly summary put "U.S. strength at 465,200 men, down 2,300 from the previous week and 18,800 below the current authorized ceiling of 484,000.

A spokesman said the drop was not related to the withdrawal of 50,000 troops scheduled to start next month, but was the result of replacements from the United States and troops being sent home after completion of their tours of duty being temporarily out of balance. SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu's reorganization of South Vietnam's military commands gained momentum with the disclosure of more changes and the promotion of 10 colonels to brigadier general. The reorganization is designed to give the armed forces a new and more aggressive leadership of young, hard-driving officers. Sources said that among the 10 colonels picked for promotion were Tran Van Hai, director of the national police who deal with Viet Cong political agents and saboteurs, and D0 Kien Nhieu, the mayor of Saigon. Gea.

Minn Moved In the latest command changes, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Minh moves from commander of the Saigon Military District to commander of the 2nd Corps Military Zone covering the Central Highlands. Brig. Gen.

Nguyen Vinh Nghi, commander of the 21st Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta, is replacing Minh as commander of the Saigon district, sources aid. The shift eases Lt. Gen. Lu Mong Lan out of the Central Highlands command, where he is said to have been inefficient and lackluster. There was no immediate word of a new assignment for Lan, or who would replace Nghi as commander of the 21st Division, rated among the better of South Vietnam's 10 infantry divisions.

Thieu began the reorganization Saturday with replacement of two other generals in the Mekong Delta to put more drive chiefs. Officer Cadets Killed A powerful Viet Cong claymore mine exploded in the midst of a column of South Vietnamese officer cadets near Saigon today, killing 18 Vietnamese and wounding 35. Killed were 1 cadets at the Thu Due Military Academy, one officer instructor and one civilian. The wounded were S4 cadets and an officer instructor. A company of 150 to 200 cadets had just begun a morning training exercise when the mine was electrically detonated by remote control and sprayed hundreds of shrapnel pellets into the column.

The academy is six miles north of Saigon. Only light, scattered ground action was reported elsewhere, but the U.S. Command reported a sharp increase in enemy rocket and mortar attacks in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon. Headquarters said that in the 24 hours up to 8 a.m. today, 30 rocket and mortar attacks were reported throughout South Vietnam, 21 of them in the delta.

No Americans were reported killed, but 27 were wounded. South Vietnamese casualties were described as light over-all. Airmen Rescued The U.S. Army announced that a rescue helicopter had pulled three American helicopter crewmen to safety last week from within 50 feet of a North civil war. Thant said he was satisfied with the federal government's treatment of the refugees.

"I am convinced that the process of national reconciliation has started very auspiciously," he said. The secretary-general said he had spoken with Henrik Beer, leased from jau on oau, invited to Interior Minister Kamal Jumblatt's palatial mountain home for a week's and called a hero by newspapers and politicians. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations condemned Lebanon's reaction. said the general refugee situation was "encouraging" and the refugee problem of a far smaller scale than some had predicted. He said thousands of refugees in apparently good condition were returning home.

Hunt also reported that he saw Nigerian federal soldiers feeding refugees from the Ibo tribe. Thant Arrives U.N. Secretary-General Thant added Lagos to a tour of African nations and arrived Sunday to discuss ways the world organization could aid reconstruction after the 30-month LAGOS (AP) Lord Hunt, the adviser to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Nigerian war relief, returned today from the last strongholds of what used to be Biafra and reported he found no evidence of genocide, sources close to him said. An informant said that during a three-day tour Lord Hunt visited Owerri, Biafra's last major town; Orlu, the last rebel government seat; Uli, the location of the jungle airstrip that kept Biafra alive with supplies from the outside; Aba, and other places. The British representative Ambitious Ibos Have Lost More Than War in Biafra xorc their empty jobs.

Lagos is again a Yoruba city. In the north, where the native Hausas and Fulanis haven't moved in on aid Ibo jobs and property, the Yorubas have. In other states of the former eastern region, Efik and Ijaw minorities claim with general bitterness that they were forced to join the secession. It may be hard for Ibos to find footing again soon in the state capitals of Port Harcourt and Calabar where they once ran things. Great amounts of Ibo money were spent on the Biafran rebellion.

Federal officials say the Ibos can exchange worthless Biafran notes for Nigerian pounds, but that will restore few fortunes. The Ibos pulled together to learn British ways, saving up to send the brightest children in the neighborhood to school so they in turn could help others to advance. Albert Schweitzer once told a confidant: "The trouble with the Ibos is that they think they are superior. Now they may well be superior, but they should have enough sense not to act so LAGOS (AP) The Ibos' 30-month war for independence put them back where they started during the British colonial days, but now they are decimated, divided, disillusioned and desperate. Although the tribe's 8 million people were far fewer than the Hausas or Yorubas among Nigeria's 55 million people, the ambitious, hard-driving Ibos filled the top ranks in civil service, education, medicine, engineering and commerce until the anti-Ibo pogroms in 1966.

Ibos held four out of five of the technical posts in utilities and telecommunications. Now they start again. Nigeria's head of state, Maj. Gen. Yakubu Gowon, promised them their jobs back, but they must face reality.

A Generation Lost The new generation of Ibos is nearly destroyed and the old one shattered. More than a million children are dead; many thousands of others are disabled. The Ibos' flight ainto the east Nigerian area that became Biafra meant someone had to fill head of the League of Red Cross Societies, who had just returned from a visit to what was Biafra. Thant said Beer had found "no hint of even the slightest remotest evidence of violence or mistreatment of Ibos by federal forces." He said Beer found Ibos and federal soldiers fraternizing in a climate "much more genial" than in Europe after World War n. Thant was to have flown to Port Harcourt today for a firsthand look at the relief work, but he decided he did not have time.

300 Prisoners Released Officials said 300 prisoners of war were released at Abakaliki, in East Central State, as the beginning of a general amnesty for Ibo tribesmen "misled into rebellion." Others would be freed later, the government said. Signs of peace were starting to appear in Lagos. Streetlights were switched on Sunday night for the first time in 24 years, and people drove through the streets just to look at the spectacle. The sound of drums was heard again. They had been banned for years for fear they might be used to transmit harmful messages.

In Rome, Pope Paul VI praised Nigerian authorities for avoiding "violence and vendetta." He spoke a week after he had expressed fears that the defeated Biafrans would face genocide. An airplane operated by the Danish Red Cross returned to Copenhagen from Geneva Sunday night with 11 tons of medicine for Nigeria. The plane was reported to have received permission to land at Lagos last Friday, but the clearance was withdrawn the next day. The International Red Cross then asked that the plane return to Denmark because the Nigerian government has blacklisted the Danish Red Cross also. Four British planes left London for Lagos during the night, carrying ambulances, trucks and 11 tons of medical supplies.

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