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Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 20, 1 98 1 ePlan Gam Bizarre Hostage Perot, Landry In niew Brzezinski" and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown to discuss methods of freeing the hostages. Perot would not discuss with KXAS any of his plans for rescuing the hostages but did indicate he participated. Spokesmen for the State Department and the Defense Department had no comment late yesterday on the report Ed Luttwak, a Washington defense consultant, said in the report that Perot's rescue plan was rejected as being too simple. "They needed something more complicated," he said.

"And the bureaucracy got in the way, deciding what the Army would do, the Navy, the Marines." Luttwak said the military devised just such a complicated plan, the Bowl" mission that was aborted in April 1980 in the Iranian desert. Eight servicemen were killed when a helicopter collided with a cargo plane. FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -Millionaire businessman H. Ross -Perot and Dallas Cowboys coach LTom Landry were part of government schemes to use "Trojan Tplanes" and signal-sending football films to rescue the American hos-Itages from Iran, it was reported yesterday. I Perot, who' organized his own commando squad to free two of his employees from Tehran before the "American Embassy was seized, -came up with the "Trojan plane" scheme out it was rejected because -it seemed too simple, NBC News and its Fort Worth affiliate KXAS-TV reported yesterday.

Landry was unknowingly involved. After the hostages were separated and some moved from the American Embassy in retaliation -for last April's unsuccessful rescue I attempt, a radio signal was record-ed into tapes of Cowboys games Idonated by Landry to be sent to the hostages. wmm i uniim.ii. mjPV.J Pope Urges Christians, Moslems To End Strife I "I Wlr: H. ROSS PEROT Plan included signal-sending country's "sugar bowl." Departing from the distinctly conservative tone he set in Cebu on marriage and the family, John Paul told impoverished sugar workers they had the "right to unite in free associations for the purpose of defending their interests." Whether the workers can organize unions has been one of the region's most sensitive issues, leading the local bishop to call the area a "social volcano." At least nine Catholic lay workers have been killed execution-style for trying to help organize unions.

"Injustice reigns when within the same society some groups hold most of the wealth and power while large strata of the population cannot de Con Suspect Took Frat-Fall In Visit Here ji iwi inn tiim.JLt Ahm Prett Photo by Marten Kara Strike settlement sends students back to the books at Steel Valley High School. 13-Week Steel Valley Strike Ends (Continued from Page A-1) to agree to settle. A lot of -things we are happy with, some "things we are not happy with. "It's been a long struggle and has Itested the endurance of teachers, and parents." Teachers last night voted almost 'unanimously to accept the agreement 2 Since the strike began Oct. 28, The television report said the government hoped that when the films were played direction finders would be able to lock in on the television sets and locate the Americans.

The plan fell through, however, because there was no way to know if a hostage or one of the Iranian militants was watching the game. Landry, in Colorado on a skiing trip with his family, said he knew nothing about the signals added to the tapes. "I bad no knowledge of that," he said. The only thing I wanted was them to be able to watch the games and maybe make Cowboy fans out of them." Perot, who instigated a massive Tehran prison riot in February 1979 to free two employees of bis Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems, was involved in rescue plans within weeks of the Nov. 4, 1979, takeover of the embassy.

"The best analogy (for freeing the hostages) is like stealing a dia students in West Homestead, Homestead and Munhall have been idled, except for a cooling-off period last month. Last month, the school board went to court to seek an injunction and McGowan ordered teachers back to work for two weeks while he held nightly marathon bargaining sessions in his courtroom. When the negotiations fell The will, hand-written in pencil on a small scrap of paper, said, "It is a toss-up between him (Schrack), and a certain party and the best one wins." It was found among Miss Williamson's papers, along with a two-page letter in which she admitted guilt in the infants' deaths. The babies were found wrapped in newspapers dating to the '20s and '30s. The letter, dated Feb.

9, 1960, and inscribed with the words, "To be opened after my burial," was written when Miss Williamson was suffering complications from a hysterectomy. Autopsies conducted on the infants revealed that at least three, including one that could have been a year old, had been strangled, Cambria County Coroner John Barron said. cause, he said, the redaction could be based on a standard number of days children go to school. The administration also proposes to reduce deductions for shelter, child care and medical deductions used in determining food stamp benefits and to base increases in benefits due to inflation on actual past increases rather than on projected increases. Currently, when people become eligible for benefits they get a whole month's benefits.

The administration proposes that people who become eligible in the last half of the month receive benefits for only a half month. Yesterday, Block asked Congress to appropriate more money to prevent a cutoff in food stamp benefits to 22 million Americans at the end of July. Hostages Released MIAMI (UPI) Cubans occupying the Ecuadorean Embassy in Havana gave up their arms to Ambassador Jorge Perez Concha last night and allowed him and others held hostage to leave the building, Havana Radio said today but indicated 31 Cubans remained in the building. mond," Perot told KXAS. "You plan carefully and you just grab it." The station quoted sources as saying under one plan proposed by Perot, the United States would have set up a phony black market to sell spare military equipment parts to Iran.

Parts woula have been delivered on large cargo planes twice to establish trust On the third' flight, commandos would have unloaded trucks from the plane outside of Tehran, driven to the embassy and used a non-lethal gas to knock out all the guards and the hostages. The hostages would have been loaded into the tracks, then rushed to the airport, where they would have been flown oat of Iran under escort by American jet fighters from an aircraft carrier. The report said Perot traveled frequently to Washington and met with a think tank, including Gen. David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former President Carter's foreign policy adviser Zbig- iiw" 1 i through, the teachers resumed their strike. Salaries were the main obstacle in negotiations, with the union asking for $2,175 in each of the first two years of the contract and $1,900 plus a cost-of-living hike the third year.

The board countered with $1,800 the first two years and $1,900 the final year. This week, more than 200 Steel Valley seniors began attending classes conducted by administrators holding teaching certificates and by some of the 21 teachers who reported to work. CoMiie Seeks Endorsement (Continued from Page A-1) to request the State Committee's endorsement. In eastern Pennsylvania, Municipal Court Judge Joseph Glancey of Philadelphia appears to have the edge for endorsement, although Lehigh County Judge Maxwell Davison also is making a strong bid. Colville, a Pittsburgh native, once coached football at North Catholic High School, and is a law graduate of Duquesne University, where he attended night classes while serving as a detective on the force.

Subsequently, he became a legal adviser to the Police Bureau before moving up to chief. Colville first ran for DA in 1975 when he led the Democratic ticket, and was re-elected in 1979. He said he had instituted many improvements, but added, "however, it is appellate court decisions which principally affect police and -prosecutorial efforts to fight crime. "It's time to provide the courts with a different perspective on crime, the perspective of an individual who has fought it first-hand on a day-to-day basis." County Commissioner Cyril Wecht has contended Colville's prosecution of charges against him, related to Wecht's former management of the morgue when be was coroner, were inspired by Colville's political ambitions. Colville has repeatedly denied this charge.

Youngstown Teachers Strike YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (UPI) -Public school teachers struck today over wages, and the Youngstown Board of Education threatened to retaliate by cutting off strikers' benefits and requesting a back-to-work order. The teachers, members of the Youngstown Education Association, walked out after rejecting a last-ditch attempt yesterday to head off a strike by submitting the dispute to binding arbitration. The strike affects 17,000 students in 32 buildings, including five high schools, fiveMunior high schools and 22 elementy schools. Baby-Killing Spinster iWills All To Boarder TOM LANDRY films of Cowboy games. cently provide for the livelihoods of their families even through long hours of backbreaking labor in factories in the fields," John Paul told a crowd estimated at 250,000.

The pope called on plantation owners, known as "hacenderos," to "compare constantly your actions and attitudes with the ethical principles regarding the priority of the common good, regarding the social purpose of economic activity." The pope also met with two widows of Catholic lay workers slain under mysterious circumstances and gave his blessing to the crowd as it sang Bayan Ko (My Country), a theme song of Filipino activists trying to improve living conditions for the sugar workers. used nine other aliases besides T.J. Merella, generally tells the young men she is on the run from underworld enemies and that their expenses will be reimbursed by the federal government, according to police and Sigma Chi accounts. Her escorts believed that telling anyone where they were going or what they were doing would endanger her life. In 1974, two Tulane University fraternity men spent three weeks with Ms.

Cain, at a cost of about $4,800, according to Sigma Chi offi-' cials. Later that year, a Sigma Chi officer from the University of Michigan disappeared for three months. An Ann Arbor policeman who was involved in tracking the student said the student and Ms. Cain ran up expenses of nearly $10,000 on a credit card. The Philadelphia indictment stems from a month-long excursion taken by Robert Mazurkiewicz, former Sigma Chi president at the University of Pennsylvania.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Judy L. Goldstein, Mazurkiewicz began receiving phone calls from a woman attorney representing Tasha Lodge last May 6 less than a month after Davis did. Except for the ending, Mazur-kiewicz's story, as outlined in the indictment papers, is almost identical to that told by Davis. Davis said his roommate, James Mullen, started asking questions when he noticed the fraternity president spending an inordinate amount of time on the phone.

At first, Davis was determined to reveal nothing, but on the evening after his tantalizing conversation with Tasha, be said, he broke down. "Jimbo, I'm going to tell all," he began, and proceeded to narrate a tale that, Davis said, had his roommate rolling on the floor with laughter. On Mullen's advice, Davis spent the night from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. phoning officials with the Pitt campus security office, the Pittsburgh police and the U.S.

State Department. All reacted with a certain amount of incredulity, he recalled, and not all were polite enough to restrain their laugnter. In Philadelphia a few weeks later, Davis" counterpart at Penn did not react so skeptically to the story of Tasha Lodge and her attorney. The indictment says that Mazurkiewicz agreed to help "T.J. Mer-relli" who said she also worked for the U.S.

Department of Justice on an investigation, and accompanied her on a whirlwind crosscountry trip that allegedly took him and Ms. Cain to 23 cities, from Media, Pa. to Santa Clara, Calif. The indictment charges that Mazurkiewicz was bilked out of $5,000. Today, Davis giggles almost uncontrollably when he talks about his two-day acquaintance with Ms.

Cain. He punctuates his narrative with remarks like "I can't believe I fell for it." But he insists that Ms. Cain is an unusually charismatic personality, with powers of persuasion that are hard to describe. "I tell you, I was scared when I told T.J. I wasn't coming to see her aay more," Davis said.

"It was a cEjPy feeling." DAVAO, Philippines (UPI) -Pope John Paul II island-hopped through the southern Philippines today, pleading with Christians and Moslems to halt a nine-year conflict and admonishing sugar plantation owners against exploiting their workers. John Paul, who started the day in the central Philippines city of Cebu, flew to Davao, Bacolod and Iloilo cities to deliver three major speeches under a scorching tropical sun. By days's end, his face had turned a bright sun-burned red. In marked contrast with Cebu where the Polish pontiff received an emotional outpouring, John Paul's three-boor visit to Davao on the rebellion-torn island of Mindanao was tense and formal. His advisers prevailed on him to refrain from shaking bands and kissing babies for security reasons.

The pope delivered a homily to a predominantly Christian crowd at Davao airport and then met with a handful of Moslem leaders to plead for an end to the nine-year guerrilla war that has killed more than 60,000 people. John Paul, on the fifth day of a 12-day trip through the Philippines, Guam and Japan, never left the airport at Davao during a three-hour stop and was guarded by an (estimated 2,000 security men. John Paul, shadowed by first lady Imelda Marcos who hired a private jet to join the papal tour, then flew to Bacolod on Negros Island in the Oakland Man Convicted In Gun Death An Oakland man was convicted today of. third-degree murder and a firearms violation for the slaying of a University of Pittsburgh pre-med student during an altercation at a fraternity house. Giles Davis, 21, of 2564 Wads-worth was convicted of the charge after a non-jury trial before Common Pleas Judge Henry R.

Smith Jr. Davis shot Lallon "Lonnie" Evans, 22, last July 20 at the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity house at 231 McKee Place, Oakland, where the lived. Davis yesterday maintained that he bad shot Evans accidentally during a verbal confrontation at a fraternity dance. He also claimed that he had consumed more than 40 quarts of beer and used a considerable amount of cocaine and marijuana during the eight hours before the incident In closing arguments, defense attorney Michael Healey urged the judge to convict his client of only manslaughter, arguing that Davis was rendered incapable of forming an intent to kill the victim because of heavy alcohol and drug use. But Assistant District Attorney William Brennan sought a first-degree murder conviction.

Smith sent Davis to the County Jail and postponed sentencing pending a pre-sentence investigation. Slay Suspect Charged Anew New charges of kidnapping and rape have been filed against a Schenley High School ninth grader accused of criminal homicide in the death of a Carnegie woman whose body was found in the trunk of her car in the city's Northview Heights section. James Miller, 15, of 2807 Bedford who is in the custody of juvenile authorities, was arraigned yesterday on the new counts related to the killing last week of Linda M. Iglar, 24. Miller already had been been arraigned on various rape, kidnapping and robbery charges involving two other women.

All of the crimes involved women Miller allegedly accosted this month in the parking lots of Giant Eagle food stofgs in Oakland and on the North Side. EBENSBURG (UPI) An elderly spinster who died last year and "ieft a letter leading police to the decomposed remains of five babies Ihas left all her belongings to a boarder in her home. Papers filed with the Cambria iCounty registrar of wills disclosed that Guy Schrack of Gallitzin will the real estate and personal -belongs of Stella E. Williamson, who 76 when she died List Aug. 26.

The real estate, a boarding home Miss Williamson lived in with iSchrack, was valued at $27,500. The -personal belongings were valued at $1,000 and other property was worth $3,800, legal papers disclosed. Schrack, who neighbors said had lived at the house longer than any-oue remembered, had no comment the will. (Continued from Page A-1) thought, if it's not (a hoax), I should definitely do something about it." So he agreed to Ms. Merella's suggestion that they meet.

On April 28, he met her in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel, where she had just arrived, ostensibly from Washington, D.C. She told Davis she was coming into town for "some big seminar on underworld crime" a field she said was her specialty in her work with the U.S. Departments of State and Justice. She wanted Davis to drive her to another hotel and pay for her room with a check. Given her line of work, using her own checks would be "risky," she said, promising to reimburse her escort with "State Department money." The pair stopped at a number of area hotels and motels, but none would accept checks for payment.

Finally, Ms. Merella used her own money to check in at a Monroeville hotel. And although Ms. Merella's eyeglasses featured a monogram that matched her initials, Davis says he noticed her checkbook had "Nancy Cain" embossed on the case. During their excursion, Ms.

Merella talked a good deal about Tasha Lodge, Davis said. She told him that Ms. Lodge worked part time as a model, and took him into a drugstore to show him her client's picture in Cosmopolitan magazine. Davis bought the issue. Ms.

Merella asked Davis if he had a girlfriend in Pittsburgh, and urged him to consider Georgetown Law School. She discussed the Washington scene with impressive glibness, dropped impressive names and appeared convincingly knowledgeable on the subject of inside politics, Davis said. She told Davis she wanted him to call Tasha, to offer a personal assurance of his concern over the obscene letters and his determination to stop them. He worried about the cost of a long-distance phone Call, but she said she could arrange a toll-free hookup because of her high governmental position. Davis now believes Ms.

Merella impersonated the soft New England accents in which Tasha Lodge spoke to him, but he is still unable to explain the strangely authentic nature of the phone call. Ms. Merella bad instructed Davis to phone her at her motel room from the fraternity house. He did, and heard a ring, then "a clicking noise it sounded like it was reconnecting." When "Tasha" answered, the connection "sounded like long distance there was a fuzzy kind of sound," Davis said. The two had a two-hour conversation during which they resolved to arrange a face-to-face meeting.

"It was great," Davis recalled. "It was enough to get someone worked up." It was also, according to police and Sigma Chi officials, a repeat of a number of other conversations "Tasha" had had with a number of other fraternity members across the country over the past 10 years. In other cases, the telephone friendship has set the stage for costly crosscountry odysseys by young men who agreed to accompany and underwrite Tasha's attorney on her trips Cain, who is believed to have Farm Chief Assures Users Of Food Stamps WASHINGTON (UPI) Agriculture Secretary John Block predicted today food stamp recipients who would lose benefits under the administration's proposed spending cuts would make up their losses in lower taxes. "They're going to make it up very easily in the tax savings," Block told a news conference, "and we don't have to do all that paperwork and fool with it." Block did not have figures to back op his assertion, but said, "They've made money. It's a good trade off." Reagan proposes cutting $1.8 billion from food stamp spending for fiscal 1982.

1 The administration proposes to drop 300,000 to 400,000 people from the rolls by lowering the monthly income ceiling for eligible people to $808 a month. If families take advantage of certain deductions under the current System, they can get stamps with an income of $1,026 a month. The administration also proposes to reduce benefits for some families whose children get free school lunches. A maximum reduction would be about $11.50 a month per child. He disputed claims it would be an "ministrative hjhtmare" be-.