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The Complete Medical Exam Page C-1 The Pittsburgh Pre 9 3 p.m. STOCKS Down 6.93 7-5 72 Pages 20 Onts WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1978 TONIGHT dear, mild. Talk Despite Hard-Line Plan VOL. 95, No. 12 Israel (Israel, Egypt met behind scenes last winter, page AS.) JERUSALEM (UPI) Egypt formally relayed its latest peace plan to Israel today through U.

S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Although the plan's conditions already have been rejected, Israeli officials said there was nothing in them to bar a peace parley in London later this month of Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Kamel and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. niniMiin li HRIRPS HOWARD Egypt's vide a role for the Palestine Liberation Organization by name. Diplomats characterized the Egyptian plan as "tough," and noted similar ideas had been rejected by Prime Minister Menacbem Begin of Israel last week.

Israel has agreed in principle to send Dayan to London to confer with Kamel and Vance. But Begin deferred a final decision util he could "examine" Egypt's proposals. Last weekend, President Carter predicted Cairo's blueprint would be con Lewis relayed the plan to Dayan this morning at the foreign minister's suburban Tel Aviv home. Is a related development, opposition, leader Shimon Peres said he will "exchange views" bnt not negotiate when he meets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Vienna next week. The Egyptian plan the main points of which were rejected by the Israeli cabinet last week even before they were formally presented-called for Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip.

necessary for preparing the Palestinian people to exercise the right of self-determination. Resolving the Palestinian problem in all its human and political aspects. Egypt and Jordan to discuss the necessary security guarantees with Israel during the transitional period. The United Nations to be responsible for arranging the transfer of the West Bank and Gaza from Israeli administration to Jordanian and Egyptian administration, respectively. Iff Surratt Picked Up In Florida sidered "inadequate" by Jerusalem and said Washington might step in then with compromise proposals of its own.

In January, Kamel walked out of the peace talks in Jerusalem, rejecting Begin's offer of limited self-rule to Palestinian Arabs under continued Israeli military control. Mondale, while meeting with Sadat in Alexandria Monday, said both the Egyptian and Israeli ideas would be examined at the London conference. As reported, the plan also calls for Egypt, Jordan and the United Nations to supervise the measures EDWARD A. SURRATT the wife and stepdaughter in the bedroom, where sheriff deputies said they surprised him before he was able to grab the stolen rifle. He said Surratt had been drinking wine and allegedly smoking marijuana.

"It still took three deputies to restrain him," Durham said. 1 A City Cellist Wins Moscow Gold Medal After five years of" temporary administration by Jordan and Egypt, the 1.1 million Palestinian Arabs living in both areas would be allowed the right of self-determination. The Egyptian plan was presented by Sadat to vice President Walter Mon-dale Monday for relay to Israel. The full text was to be released later today, but highlights were published in early editions of Cairo newspapers. As reported by the newspapers Al Ahram and Al Gomhouria, the outline does not specifically call for a sovereign Palestinian state, nor does it pro- allegedly got out, fired a shot into the storm door of Mrs.

mvito borne, then went inside. Paras seized the opportunity to drive home, where he arrived shaken but unhurt Inside Mrs. DiVito's home, Horvat -reportedly broke down the bedroom door, issuing threats, only to discover his wife wasn't there, Rankin police said. The suspect, by now the object of a manhunt by Swissvale, Rankin, Wilkin-subrg and Braddock Hills police, then allegedly left the residence and walked to the Rankin Bridge, police said. Four Rankin policemen apprehended him as he prepared to walk onto the bridge.

A semi-automatic gun which police believe to be the one Horvat allegedly used, was found beneath the Rankin Bridge on the Rankin side. Swissvale police were first alerted to the incident when the owner of the bullet-riddled car, David McAteer, 17, of 2022 Hampton Swissvale, drove it to the police station to file a complaint Both Swissvale and Rankin police charged Horvat with two firearms violations, recklessly endangering another person and criminal mischief. Swissvale police added charges of felonious restraint and terroristic threats. The man who allegedly was with Horvat at the beginning of the incident, John Safran, 24, of Braddock Hills, was not charged, McCann said. When police questioned the witnesses, they determined the identity of the suspect Lt.

McCann explained, "He used to live around here. He was raised in Swissvale. Everybody knows him." The lieutenant said Horvat currently was on probation on a burglary charge. Horvat was arraigned today before Braddock Magistrate Martin McTiernan. Bond was set at 10 percent of $10,000.

Horvat's hearing is set for 9 a.m, next Wednesday before McTiernan. Palm Springs Jarred PASADENA, Calif. (UPI)-An earth- Suake registering 3.8 on the open-ended lichter scale shook the desert community of Palm Springs early today, but there were no reports of damages Prew Ptwls by Michatl Cbiri HIZZONER DOES THE HONORS at a fish sandwich Belle and William DeLuca of Sharpsburg. Proceeds booth in Market Square, Downtown, during July 4th went to St. Peter's Child Development Centers, celebrations yesterday.

On the receiving end were (Story, other pictures, page A-2.) Kidnap, Terror Here Edward A. Surratt, wanted for two murders and the object of a widespread search in Beaver County, has been arrested in Florida. Surratt, 36, wanted also in Ohio and South Carolina, was arrested Saturday night in South Valano Beach, nearSt. Augustine. Police said Surratt allegedly had been holding a family hostage but the father escaped when Surratt fell asleep after allegedly raping the man's wife and 15-year-old stepdaughter.

St. John's County Chief Deputy Sheriff Richard Durham, a native Pitts-burgher, said authorities learned Sur-ratt's identity yesterday morning i through FBI fingerprint files. He said Pennsylvania state police and South Carolina authorities "have already talked to us" about holding Surratt of Aliquippa, for questioning and possible extradition. Surratt, 36, was last seen in the Aliquippa area last month, but be escaped from seven pursuing state troopers. Florida authorities have charged Surratt with burglarizing a home last Wednesday two days before the incident which resulted in his arrest.

Durham said Surratt stole a rifle. On Saturday night, he allegedly broke into the house in South Valano Beach and tied up the 52-year-old man, his 47-year-old wife and their stepdaughter with electrical cord. The husband freed himself, Durham said, and fled to a neighbor's home for help. Durham said Surratt allegedly raped Twisters Whip Plains, Kill 7, Injure 60 By Unittd Pru InttfMttOfMl A deadly band of tornadoes ripped across the Plains last night and early today, killing at least seven persons and destroying houses and businesses. One tornado bowled through Elgin, N.

killing at least four persons and injuring as many as 40. Another ripped Gary, killing three and injuring more than 20. All power was cut off in Elgin, a southwestern North Dakota town of 893 where a twister leveled scores of homes and businesses last night. The Gary twister swooped down on the northwestern Minnesota hamlet early today, leveling a rest home, overturning house trailers and ripping roofs from houses. Authorities said a number of residents were trapped in the debris of the rest home.

A spokesman at the hospital, 18 miles west of Gary, said 10 persons bad been hospitalized, most of them in satisfactory condition, and at least 10 others had bees treated and released. The Norman County sheriffs office said the twister struck shortly before 3 a.m., causing heavy damage. Other tornadoes tore through south-central North Dakota and south South Dakota. For Funnies Fans: A Komics Kwiz If yon like to read Press comics, you'll love the contest in store for you starting Sunday! It's called Komics Kwiz, and it will test your comics trivia knowledge. So, brush up on your characters there will be lots of great prizes in store, including original drawings by your favorite cartoonists! It all starts In Sunday's Press! He said Surratt will be held without bond pending further legal proceedings.

"He's not going anywhere," Durham said. "We're going to wait and see if any bodies turn up in our own community from the past week." Allegheny County Homicide Inspector Robert E. Meinert said, "We (the Allegheny County Homicide Task Force) will have people down there shortly. We're taking a hard look at Mr. Surratt as a suspect in several of the unsolved homicides.

"I've got calls in to try and find out what happened down there," he said. Since Allegheny County has no charges filed against Surratt, authorities cannot extradite him yet. However, Meinert did say he felt authorities in Boardman Township, a suburb of Youngstown, will attempt to extradite Surratt on murder charges. Meinert said he's also keeping in touch with the Beaver County district attorney's office and the Pennsylvania state police. Surratt, an unemployed truck driver and Marine Corps, Vietnam veteran also is charged in the June 1 killing of Luther Langford, 66, and the baseball bat beating of his wife, Nell, 58, in their West Columbia, S.C., home.

He is a "prime suspect" in the shotgun slayings of Guy Mills, 64; his wife, Laura, 65, Sid Joel M. Krueger, 36, last Dec. 31 in Breezewood, Pa. v. I A I NATHANIEL ROSEN Plays for Pittsburgh Symphony.

assistant at the University of Southern California. In an earlier interview be called Piatigorsky "a great person, a large soul. I learned everything from him, not only music but an attitude toward life. In (Continued on Page A-10, Column 1) Bucs' Parker To Undergo Cheek Surgery Pirate right fielder Dave Parker, the team's leading hitter and defending National League batting champion, will undergo surgery tomorrow on his left cheekbone and will be lost to the team for a minimum of two weeks. It was revealed in an examination today that Parker, who was injured in a home plate collision with New York Mets catcher John Stearns Friday night and has not played since, has three cracks in his cheek bone and part of it has been pushed inward.

The operation will pull the bone back out Parker will be placed on the disabled list. The Pirates have not announced who will take his place on the roster. In another move, the Pirates announced that Bruce Kison, who has been disabled for more than a month with a finger ailment, will return to the active roster for tomorrow's game with St. Louis. 4 ti ye Arrest Ends By GEOFF BROWN Armed with a semi-automatic rifle, a 29-year-old man allegedly kidnapped a Swissvale youth and terrorized a Rankin woman before he was arrested early today.

'Police believe it all happened because George "Casper" Horvat of 3801D Logans Ferry Road, Plum Borough, was looking for his estranged wife, Louise, for an as yet unexplained reason. He was arrested at 12:45 a.m. today. The youth, Daniel Paras, 16, of 328 Lucille managed to escape when his kidnapper left him alone to enter the home of Anna DiVito of 211 Fleet Rankin, Horvat's wife's mother. The incident began shortly before midnight last night in the parking lot of a shopping center at Church Street and Monongahela Avenue, Swissvale, Paras told police.

As the youth recounted it, he and some friends were gathered there when Horvat and another man pulled up in a car. Horvat then allegedly jumped out of the car, riddled another auto with bullets, threatened Paras and told him, "You're going to have to drive," ac- J. Nathaniel Rosen, first cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, outplayed 52 other cellists from 22 other countries to win the world's most valued musical prize a Tchaikovsky gold medal in competition in Moscow. Rosen is the first American to win a gold medal at the competition in 12 years since singer Jane Marsh's victory In 1966. The last American instrumentalist to win the prestigious award was pianist Van Cliburn in 1958.

The 30-year-old cellist, who joined the Pittsburgh orchestra this season, said be wants to farther his career as a soloist and at the same time bring a little more recognition to an instrument be says has followed the piano and violin in popularity. In addition to the gold medal he won Saturday, Rosen also received a cash prize of $2,500. The honor meant instant fame for Van Cliburn 20 years ago, and Rosen clearly is looking for the same kind of acceptance. "My goal has always been to be a cello soloist and my victory in this contest will give me a boost in that direction," he said. Rosen's climb has not been an easy one since he first began to play the cello when he was 6 years old.

He left his home in southern California after meeting his wife, Jennifer, and went to London, New York, and finally Pittsburgh where he became first cellist under conductor Andre Previn. Along the way, he went to the Tchaikovsky competitions of 1966, and with a stunning performance, the 18-year-old made the finals but did not win the During the past year in Pittsburgh, be had devoted his time to practice, training and development of style that separates the superior performer from the competent ones. Rosen, in an interview in his suite in the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow, admitted the pressure was "extreme." He said this year's competition has been a strain. He said there were three weeks of appearances before a highly developed audience but he was inspired by the intensity of attention by that audience at the performances. Rosen will remain in Russia until he completes a 10-day tour then return to the United States to join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

He and his wife live in Gateway Towers, Downtown. Rosen made his debut in California with the Redlands Symphony at 12, and started studying with Gregor Piatigorsky of the Berlin Philharmonic a year later. He became Piatigorsky's il hdeoo aw( Weather GEORGE HORVAT Faces 10 charges. cording to Swissvale Police Lt James McCann. Paras and Horvat allegedly got into Paras' car and drove to Rankin.

Horvat Ding All Wet Despite Zero Chance Of Rain Old Sol is back from his holiday. The National weather Service says will be clear with a low around tonight 60 after today's high near 80. Tomorrow will, be sunny and warmer with a high in the mid-80s. Chance of rain is near zero through tomorrow. Press Weatherbird Donald Dingbat said the water was fine as he donned his water skis for the Fourth, but he couldn't stand the undertow.

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