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104 Other data, Page 1, Section 22 Pages Ten Cent Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Tuesday, September 9, 1969 Israeli Planes, Armor Attack Egypt 10-Hour Raid Across Suez Gulf Is Largest Since 1967 War lift MljijL 1 thrown at the Israeli embassies in the Dutch and West German capitals failed to do much damage. 'Young Tiger Group (According to a West German press agency dispatch from Amman, a spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said all three bombings were the work of "Young Tigers" of the "Ho Chi Minh section" of the guerilla organization. (A Brussels policeman seized a 16-year-old Arab boy outside the El Al office after he and an accomplice threw hand grenades into the doorway.) Lebanon. Al Fatah, the most powerful Arab guerrilla organization, said in a broadcast from Cairo: "Palestine resistance will fight the Lebanese army if it tries to prevent the use of southern Lebanon as a base. It is time the traitors and conspirators in Lebanon realized we will use our arms if they try to block our efforts to reconquer Palestine." Arab teen-age boys tossed bombs at Israeli buildings in three West European capitals Bonn, Brussels and the Hague at noontime in an apparently coordinated action.

(Four persons were injured in the attack on the Brussels office of El Al Airlines. Grenades Egyptian boats in the Gulf of Suez near Ras Sadat, an Egyptian torpedo base 12 miles south of the Suez Canal. Three of the Israelis were killed in a "technical mishap" aboard their vessel as they returned to their base, the spokesman said. Cairo said only that an Egyptian patrol sank an Israeli boat during a naval encounter 12 miles east of the dty of Suez. It reported one crewman of an Egyptian boat was injured.

Guerrillas Threaten Lebanon In Lebanon, Arab guerrillas were threatening to fight the Lebanese army if it tries to prevent them from carrying out attacks on Israel from bases in The Israelis used naval vessels to take their armor across the 25-mile-wide gulf. He listed Israeli casualties as one soldier wounded and claimed dozens of Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded and "heavy damage caused" to Egyptian equipment. SAMs Hit The planes bombed and strafed artillery batteries and units of the Soviet-built surface to air SAM missiles, he said. The action raged between El Hasayer and Ras Za' Farana, 60 miles south of the port of Suez at the southern end of the Suez Canal. The raid came on the heels of a sea battle in the same general area Monday.

In that engagement, Israel claimed to have sunk two Egyptian torpedo boats. Cairo said one Egyptian boat was hit but not sunk and asserted the Egyptians sank an Israeli vessel. In the latest raid, the Israelis claimed to have destroyed army bases and encampments, vehicles, radar stations and buildings. The Egyptians put up no air or sea resistance, the spokesman said. The raid came after what the spokesman called continued and initiated Egyptian aggression.

A spokesman in Tel Aviv said Israeli commandos attacked the TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli aircraft and armored units thrust into Egypt across the Gulf of Suez today in a raid on Egyptian army positions, the Israeli army announced. It was the biggest action reported on the Egyptian-Israeli front since the 1967 Middle East war. The 10-hour operation ranged over a 30-mile stretch of the Egyptian shore, a military spokesman reported. One Israeli plane was lost and the pilot parachuted into the Gulf of Suez, he said. The attack began at 2 a.m., and lasted until noon, the spokesman continued.

iUUIHIMIIHIIHMUIW IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMINI HUM IIIIIIIIIMIIIIHIIMinMIIIIIHffllHIHIHIIIIIHIIIIIIIIMIIIHIIIHII Ho's Will Rock-Festival Peace Goes on Rocks I Partners Split Up When Establishment Meets Underground Deplores Red Split HONG KONG (AP) Ho Chi Minh in a "final will" read today expressed sorrow at the split between the Soviet and the Chinese Communists and exhorted the Vietnamese people to "fight on until complete victory over the U.S. aggressors." The North Vietnamese president's will, a political testament rather than a distribution of his property, was read by North Vietnamese Communist party secretary Le Duan at a memorial service held, in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. As broadcast by Hanoi Radio, Ho's will gave no hint of any choice of his successor and named no North Vietnamese Communists by name. Hanoi had announced earlier that the party and the nation would be directed by a collective leadership which had been "carefully trained and selected" by Ho. Appeal to Both Parties Without mentioning either Russia or China by name, Ho appealed to them to patch up their quarrel.

He told his own Vietnamese Communist party too, is considering new festival ideas whig toe Woodstock name. He and his staff are discussing possible new sites and trying to figure out bow to keep the crowd at another Woodstock venture down to manageable and profitable size. Among his problems in planning a new festival is one which confronts underground entrepreneurs: What will the kids want a month, two months or three months from now? Several large Establishment oriented corporations and Wall Street investment firms are interested in cashing in on the youth market that Woodstock so dramatically proved exists. These firms are hiring highly paid "youth consultants" to advise them on forthcoming trends that percolate from the deepest underground to what John Morris, 30, who was in charge of the festival production, calls "the silk-shirt hippie types from Forest Hills who do so much of the buying." dove and guitar fret printed on them, program books, posters they try not to criticize one another too much. Roberts says of Lang: "Michael is a hippie who keeps one foot in the financial world at all times.

He wants to do things to keep those little hippies of his happy and that's part of the reason Woodstock was successful in terms of getting the crowd it did. He needs to keep up that front to get the tods to back him, and he's great at that." Lang's contacts in the financial world range from the wealthy owner of a record company and a millionaire agent for a rook group to Bernard Cornfeld of Investors Overseas Services in Switzerland. He is trying to get those backers to put up nearly $2 million to buy the corporation so he can run another festival with the Woodstock name next summer. Because of the delicacy of negotiations, his contacts do not wish to be identified. But aside from paying off the festival's debts, Roberts, monumental failure in the history of the underground if one measures it in financial terms.

But it was a failure caused for toe most part Dy too much success on the artistic side. Essentially, the 31 rock and folk groups, the bucolic mountain setting, the proximity to New York City, and $200,000 worth of publicity and advertising in both underground and Establishment media resulted in the unexpected turnout of youth that overwhelmed the festival promoters. No tickets were sold after the first few hours of the first day. Those sales, plus about $1.2 million in advance sales'! were all the box office there was. Woodstock was then a free party hosted by Lang, using Roberts's lengthy line of credit at the bank.

Despite the fact that the four stockholders in the corporation have divided and are now vying for control of Woodstock. Ventures' assets a movie of the festival, T-shirts with Woodstock's faced promoter with a Shirley Temple hairdo, who is an underground hero because Woodstock was his dream first, and Artie Komfeld, his 26-year-old friend, will attempt to buy the corporation if they can raise enough money. In the aftermath of Woodstock, as the euphoria of the "three days of peace and music" dies out, the tales of the problems, the bickering, the power struggles and the diverse philosophies of the four young businessmen are coming out. They serve to explain a good deal about the people and corporations who are deeply involved in selling to the vast, affluent and mercurial market of young people who caused such a massive crush in the Cat ski lis. "Maybe the best way to define the Underground Industrial Complex," Rosenman said, "is materialistic people of the underground trying to make money off a generation of underground kids who feel they aren't materialistic." Woodstock was the most By BARNARD L.

COLLIER IMf Ntw York Tlmti Nvw Sarvlc NEW YORK The four young men who created the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that lured more than 300,000 rock and folk fans to the alfalfa fields of tiny Bethel, N.Y., last month are splitting up. "Our breakup is a matter of different philosophies," said John Roberts, the 24-year-old bar to a drugstore products fortune. His personal funds have been pledged to bankers to secure enough touts to pay off (he $1.3 million the corporation owes and fight dozens of expected lawsuits. Details of the split are still being negotiated among the four partners and their lawyers. As things stand now, however, Roberts and Joel Rosenman a 26-year-old Yale Law School graduate, will retain control of the Woodstock Ventures Corp.

and whatever assets it has left. Michael Lang, 24, a baby- AN EASY DAY ON THE FRONT finds troop, of the U.S. 25th Division doing maintenance on weapon-and armored personnel carriers and in one case taking a surtbath during the pause for Ho Chi Minh's funeral. The scene is at a firebase above Saigon. (AP Photo) Extended Truce Reds Sit Tight U.S.

May, Too By RICHARD HALLO RAN 1 Ntw York Tlrnn Ntws Service WASHINGTON Authoritative United States officials said Monday that if enemy forces in South Vietnam maintained a low level of military action after their declared 72-hour cease-fire, the United States "will do its share" in not raising the level of fighting. The sources, who have accesfc to the thinking at the top levels of government, said that if the enemy held off a resumption of combat after the expiration of the cease-fire at 1 a.m. Thursday, (1 p.m. Wednesday EDT), American forces would not initiate new actions. In Saigon, both United States and South Vietnamese commands said that their levels of fighting during the cease-fire would be determined by enemy activity.

The Washington sources said that while the United States continued to prefer a reduction of fighting by agreement, a de facto de-escalation was acceptable. This position, the sources said, is consistent with that of the administration because President Nixon said, during his recent trip to Saigon, that the next move must come from the other side. They repeated that the enemy would find the United Slates responsive to such a move. (The U.S. Command said today that since the Viet Cong cease-fire began at 1 a.m.

Monday, the enemy had made 10 significant attacks on American forces. U.S. casualties in these actions were put at 4 tolled and 29 wounded, while 2 enemy were known dead. (South Vietnamese headquarters said that between 1 a.m. Monday and 6 a.m.

Tuesday, there were 26 "enemy-initiated incidents aimed at South Vietnamese units and civilians." It said 34 South Vietnamese had been killed in these actions and 60 wounded.) The sources emphasized that the United States was not signaling to North Vietnam that Washington was trying to prolong the cease-fire, which was to mark the death of President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam. But they indicated that the administration saw the cease-fire as an opportunity for North Vietnam to keep the fighting down and as a test of North Vietnamese willingness to de-escalate, Officials here said, however, that this was the first time that the United States had been willing to have a cease-fire extended. They said the administration's position was similar to its views on the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam: much as the United States would prefer a mutually negotiated withdrawal, a de facto scaling down of the number of foreign troops in South Vietnam would be acceptable. Officials here were not optimistic that the cease-fire would be extended into a clear-cut move toward peace. Some said they expected the enemy to resume shooting as soon as the cease-fire ended, if not before.

They contended that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bad a record of violating cease-fires, even those they themselves had called. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiniiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiHiiiniiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii iiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii. Holden Stone Closing After 125 Years Here for Chicago, where he founded his own department store that started the vast Marshall Field fortune. The local store operated under a series of names until 1914, when it was purchased by Harry Holden and Frank L-Stone. It has been in its present quarters on the basement and street level of the Onota Building since 1930.

Davidson, who was an executive with the W.T. Grant Co. before coming to Pittsfield, once that it should offer all help in reuniting and solidifying international communism. "The more I feel proud and happy to see the growing strength of international communism and the working class," he said, "the more I feel deeply painful sorrow in my heart because of the present discordance between the fraternal parties." After calling on his party to carry on the war against the United States until final and complete victory. Ho toid its leaders that the party "must have a good and workable plan to develop the economy and the culture of our nation in order to ceaselessly and continuously raise the life and standards of our people "Once we defeat the U.S.

aggressors, we must and will build 10 times more than now." Ho said he was "absolutely certain that our people will be victorious, that the U.S. imperialist aggressors will be driven from our country, and that our fatherland our compatriots in both the North and the South will be reunified." Second Chinese Delegation Meanwhile, Communist China sent a second delegation to Hanoi in honor of one was headed by a vice premier, Ii Hsien-nien, and arrived Monday to attend the funeral. Hanoi Radio also revealed that Vice President Ton Due Thang, who is 81, is now acting president. It gave him that title in reporting that he had gone to the airport to welcome the Cambodian chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Holden Stone one of the country's oldest department stores, will close its Pitts-field store Nov.

1, according to an announcement today by William E. Davidson, chairman of the corporation. Davidson said the decision to close the local store was made to allow him to concentrate on his rapidly growing real estate holdings in Florida. He announced that the Great Barrington branch would continue in business, with control of the store being given to key employes in Pittsfield and Great Barrington. He also said jobs have already been found for the remaining sales staff of 30.

Closed for Inventory The store closed this morning for the balance of the week to allow employes to complete an inventory. It will reopen next week with a stock reduction sale which will extend through the month of October. Davidson purchased the store in 1959 from the late Edwin W. Holden. Holden Stone was founded in 1844 by Henry G.

Davis. It served as training ground for Marshall Field who came from his home in Chicopee as a young man to work in the store. Field left Holden Stone in 1865 Store Closing Continued on Page Hopes Fade For Trute In Nigeria ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) Hopes for a cease-fire in the Nigerian civil war faded today. President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania told a news confer; ence that other African heads of state oppose anything but military solution in Nigeria. He said Maj.

Gen. Yakubu Gowon, leader of Nigeria, ex AP Nixon Calls Advisers To Discuss Vietnam AN APPEAL FOR CALM i made byW Rev. Jesse Jackson, a black leader, to his followers during a demonstration in Chicago Monday for more jobs. Mr. Jackson and.

four other members of a black coalition were arrested after they apparently refused to lead about 500 demonstrators away from a science-engineering building under con--Utruction at the University of Illinois. The blacks were seeking jobs in Chicago's construction force. Police, with whom the group clashed briefly, ring the clergyman. WASHINGTON (AP) Presi- Helms, director of Central Intel-dent Nixon has called an ex- ligence, and Ellsworth Bunker, traordinary meeting Friday of U.S. ambassador to Vietnam.

N.E. Coast Ties Everything Down as Gerda Approaches his top advisers to discuss every aspect of the Vietnam situation, the White House announced today. Press officer Ronald L. Zie-gler, who announced the meeting, declined to discuss specific topics. Nixon announced earlier he would take another look at troop withdrawals early in September.

Called to attend the meeting were Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, national security adviser Dr. Henry Kissinger, Gen. Earie Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm William McCain, commander in chief of U.S.

forces in the Pacific, Gen. Creighton Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, Richard pressed a willingness to consider meeting with Gen. C. Odu-megwa Ojukwu of Biafra on the hard to define precondition that he be assured Ojukwu was serious about talking peace.

An advocate of a cease-fire at the African summit meeting here, Nyerere said "we find the incredible situation where non-Nigerians are more interested in pressing on with the war," instead of talking, than even Gowon. Many African countries fear Biafras of their own if Biafra is not crushed militarily as an example and "this, amounts to saying we are keeping unity by force," Nyerere declared. Nyerere, who has had meetings with African leaders and a long talk with Gowon. has been pleading for a cease-fire. By M.

W. MINARCIN JR. BOSTON (AP) Residents of New England's weathered Atlantic shoreline raced against time today to brace themselves for Hurricane Gerda, a fast-moving storm born almost overnight southwest of Cape Hatter-as, N.C. The storm, packing 90-100-mile-per-hour winds and churning up 30-40-foot seas, was trundling north-northeastward at 40 m.p.h. unusually fast for a hurricane and was expected to roar across Cape Cod hy early afternoon.

The US, Weather Bureau said Gerda then would plow into eastern Maine during the night. Its position at 11 a.m. was about 70 miles south of the eastern tip of Long Island, N.Y. Urgency cloaked eastern New England as the area prepared for the storm. But despite the atmosphere, there remained doubt about whether residents would be ready for the blow.

151 Boats Trapped "It's coming mighty fast," a Weather Bureau official said, "jjfe've only had a few hours. It could be treacherous." So quickly did the storm develop, in fact, that at least 150 flash ing boats from southeastern New England ports were reported caught at sea. A Coast Guard official said most probably would be able to ride out the storm safely. "But it'll be rough," he added. Hurricane warnings extended from Block Island, R.I., northward to Eastport, Maine.

Gale warnings were up for most of the rest of the Northeast coast. The Weather Bureau warned that flooding was likely along shoreline, and added that it probably would be "major" on the. Cape. Similar warnings were issued oncoming storm. Shopkeepers and homeowners boarded windows, and school children were sent home early.

Hundreds of pleasure craft remained at anchor in these towns, and officials said they feared toss of property would be extensive. Earlier, New York and New Jersey residents were advised by the Weather Bureau to "be prepared to take quick action if this should prove necessary" and Mayor John V. "Lindsay ordered New York City officials to "batten down the hatches." AH city police units were alerted. for the off-shore summer resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. At Otis AFB on Cape Cod, crewmen began removing planes at midmorning, flying them to inland havens.

And officials at the Newport (R.I.) Naval Base began shifting the 32 ships at anchor there to safer moorings in a protected channel. Windows Were Boarded In the dozens of summer resort communities that dot the Massachusetts shoreline, boatmen struggled to secure their- craft against the.