October 7, 1973

CAIRO, Oct. 6 — The Egyptian Government announced today that Israeli ground, sea and air forces attacked Egypt and Syria early this afternoon along the entire length of their front lines with Israel.

Consortium of US and Canadian cos pushes plans to tap Alaskan North Slope natural gas reserves through 2,000-mi pipeline from Prudhoe Bay area through Mackenzie River Valley to Caroline, Alta, 200 mi north of Montana, to feed into pipelines serving western areas of Canada and US; map; major conservation orgns are concerned with possible major incursion into Arctic National Wildlife Range; threaten legal action; as now planned, pipeline would cut through range for nearly 200 mi; main alternative route would skirt southern border of range but would mean carrying line through Brooks range of mts, adding 100 mi and hundreds of millions of dollars to length and cost of pipeline; extremely fragile ecology is involved; consortium, known as Alaska Arctic Gas Study Co, recently reptd having spent more than $5-million on environmental studies; has just completed several wks of drilling at 41 sites along routes for soil samples that presumably will be 1 of final factors in choice of route; B Evans, Washington repr of Sierra Club, incensed that Interior Dept gave permission for core drilling; L Moss, Southern Calif repr of Sierra Club, says that both routes will be fought

Israeli mil spokesman says on Oct 7 that heavy fighting erupted on Oct 6 between Israeli and Arab forces along Suez Canal and Golan heights cease-fire lines; forces are still fighting on Oct 7 in what Israeli Defense Min M Dayan describes as 'all-out war'; fighting began at 2 PM Israeli time; Egyptian forces managed to cross Suez Canal during afternoon and establish bridgeheads at several points on Israeli-held eastern bank, but Israeli mil spokesman says on Oct 6 that Israeli forces moved into position to block them; on occupied Golan heights, large-scale Syrian force including armor and artillery supported by Syrian warplanes is attacking on broad front; Dayan says on Oct 7 that 1 Israeli position fell but that otherwise Syrians have failed to make significant gains, news conf; asserts Israel had no political objectives in battle, which he says was begun by Syrian and Egyptian armies; says he has no doubt that Israeli forces will succeed in reversing Arab gains; commentators in Israel, including former intelligence chief C Herzog, assume fighting will last for several days; Herzog says he believes that Syrians and Egyptians began attack in effort to gain strategic foothold in Israeli-held Golan heights and in Sinai Peninsula to 'make a point before the UN General Assembly debates the Middle East again,' radio address; Dayan says Israeli casualties measured in 'tens or dozens, certainly not hundreds'; Israeli mil sources say 'some' Israeli positions were abandoned on both Golan heights and Suez Canal fronts, but they decline to be specific; Dayan says Israel knew about planned attack before it began but had deliberately decided against a pre-emptive strike in order 'to have the political advantage...of being the side that is attacked'; says Israel began full-scale mobilization of its reserves 4 hrs before fighting began; holds that it 'will be some time before we are at Full strength'; Israeli mil communique issued late on Oct 6 says that Egyptians attempted to cross canal at several points by helicopter and in small boats and succeeded in laying down pontoon bridges in 2 places; says Egyptian armored forces are pouring across bridges into Israeli-held Sinai; says that 10 Egyptian troop helicopters, each carrying about 30 men, were downed in Ras Sudr region; repts that 'dozens' of Syrian tanks were knocked out on Syrian front; holds that 4 Syrian missiles boats and 1 torpedo boat were sunk by Israeli missile boats; Israeli Premier Meir says Egyptians and Syrians attacked in what she describes as 'an act of madness,' radio and TV address

IRS agents are apparently compiling statement on Vice Pres Agnew's net worth as part of continuing investigation into his financial affairs; purpose of IRS investigation is not known; sources say that on Oct 3, agents from Charlotte, NC, intelligence office of IRS subpoenaed records in Asheville, NC, showing gift of 4 yards of homespun cloth worth $16 to Agnew in '67 at time of Southern Govs Conf; such gifts are sometimes considered as income for tax purposes; IRS and FBI agents are apparently checking every financial transaction Agnew has had over last 6 yrs, even going so far as to verify, at a Baltimore haberdashery, that Agnew bought 2 ties for $6, plus sales tax; United Christian Citizens repts it was visited by FBI agent to check Agnew's $5-a-yr membership; Agnew's net worth as published since '68 noted; Govt has 6 yrs to bring tax cases; Judge Hoffman is expected to be asked on Oct 8 or 9 to quash some or all of subpoenas issued by Agnew's attys to newsmen, news orgns and Justice Dept officials on Oct 5 to compel testimony of several newsmen about their sources in case

Boston officials fear that renewed violence in city will be set off by clashes between hs students, such as 1 which closed Dorchester HS last wk; State Repr M King, black, accuses school bd members of pandering to white fears and of breaking state's racial imbalance law