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34! Mike Chandler, in the No. 88 Dubonnet-Curb Special, hits the Speedway wall in the third turn Aedretti favored to win pole today Atom may hold unknown force, scientists say AOBf Order of the day 7 a.m. Gates open to public. a m. Track open for practice (in two groups).

10:30 a.m. Ceremonies at start-finish line. 11 a.m. Track open for qualifying. 6 p.m.

Track closed. Order of qualifying, Page 8 Route to the track, Page 22 More "500" news in Sports Section volley in the Pennzoil March 84C. THAT TRIO led a staggering parade of speed increases as a dozen drivers bested 205 mph on a cool, cloudy day made for tires, engines and race drivers. But the fastest day in IMS history was darkened by an accident that left Michael Chandler in serious against the measure, it would not have passed. Fifteen of the 29 council votes were needed for passage.

The vote was 1910, with all 10 opponents Republicans. ROZELLE BOYD explained Friday why he and his fellow Democrats did not seek support for one of their own issues in return. "The tax is really a favorable tax as far as inner-city constituents are concerned." Mayor William H. Hudnut asked turned truck at West and 10th streets shortly before noon. -Wishard Memorial, Riley and I.U.

hospitals are a short distance from the site. "It is a tense and dangerous situation here," said Fire Capt. Gary Campbell at the time. NO PATIENTS were evacuated, but policemen warned about 85 persons near the accident to be prepared to evacuate homes and businesses. The accident also was near a ramp to 1-70 and 1 65, and police Star Frt4 Wim condition at Methodist Hospital.

Chandler, traveling over 200 mph, blasted the third turn wall after something broke on his Du bonnet Eagle right in the middle of the groove. The 26 year-old Californian, who has three Speedway starts, was knocked unconscious when a piece of debris slammed through the opening in his helmet. He suffered brain contusions and lacerations of the forehead and left leg. HE WAS listed in serious but guarded condition Friday evening still unconscious. Two United States Auto Club observers, Roy and James Brown, were struck by debris from the crash, treated at the infield hospital and released.

Andretti, whose fabulous career has been plagued by bad breaks since winning here in 1969, gave the Nigel Bennet designed Lola a trio See POLE Page 8 for the tax primarily to pay for a shortfall in city police and fire pensions. Unless the tax were enacted, the mayor said, city fire and police service would have to be cut back. The threat of further reductions in inner-city police and fire service prompted Democrat David J. Page to vote for the tax. he said Friday.

PAGE SAID he voted for the tax because he feels that inner-city residents, including his constituents, See TAX Page 10 diverted interstate traffic around the area. About 50 Indianapolis firemen many of them wearing silvery fire-resistant suits, diluted the gasoline and doused the truck with water. Firemen shoveled dirt from a nearby construction site to build a dike around the spill, but they were unable to stop the gasoline from running into a sewer. Campbell said the truck, owned by Marathon Oil left a Speed-See TANKER Page 13 By ROBIN MILLER Mario Andretti, Gordon John-cock and Rick Mears made one thing perfectly clear Friday afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Teo Fabi's qualifying records are about as safe as Girl Scouts in the snake pit Time trials for the 68th Indianapolis 500 begin this morning at 11.

And Fabi's one- and four-lap marks of 208.049 miles per hour and 207.395 should be history by noon. BECAUSE BY that time An dretti, scheduled to go out 11th, will have probably left those numbers buried in his wake. Magnificent Mario established himself as the No. 1 seed Friday by shattering the speed barrier with a lap of 211414 mph in the Budweiser LolaCosworth. Johncock was just a blink of the eye behind as he hoofed a 211.118 circuit in the STP March 84C.

And Mears uncorked a 210.624 By ROBERT COOKE The Boston Globe Strong hints that something new and surprising exists inside the atom have thrown confusion into the orderly picture of nature. physicists have built in the last 20 years. The first reports of something utterly unexpected something un-explainable by current theories governing matter and energy began circulating among physicists late in March at a meeting of the American Physical Society. More details were added last week at another physicists' meeting in Washington, DC. ALSO LAST week, at Harvard University, Prof.

Carlo Rubbia amplified the excitement, stating "It appears we are breaking new ground" in experiments done with the world's most powerful atom smasher, the CERN accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. The results suggest that a new, unknown particle or even more startling, perhaps a new, unknown force may exist. "If the findings are confirmed, it would mean current theories (of the nature of matter and energy) are incomplete at best, or else entirely wrong," said Harvard's Prof. Howard Georgi. "The findings may be fantastically important if they hold Democrats' votes pushed county tax to passage Star- Driver Mike Chandler Injured seriously in crash Honduras orders envoy to leave Tegucigalpa, Honduras (AP) The government declared Nicara-guan Ambassador Edwin Zablah "persona non grata" Friday and ordered him to leave the country within 48 hours.

The move was a response to the shooting down of a Honduran helicopter Tuesday over Nicaragua, in which four members of the Honduran armed forces and four civilians were killed. Honduras says the chopper was blown off course. Honduras has said it will break diplomatic relations with Nicaragua unless it receives a satisfactory explanation for the incident, but expulsion of the ambassador does not mean that relations have ended. HONDURAS RECALLED its ambassador to Nicaragua, Col. Isi-dro Tapia Martinez, on Wednesday.

I Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Bamica said he has asked for a meeting Monday with the permanent council of the Organization of American States to discuss the matter. He said the helicopter was on a routine flight "of administrative character" between the Amapala naval base and Tegucigalpa when strong winds blew it off course and over Nicaraguan territory. The na- See ENVOY Page It Duarte named official victor of election in El Salvador $18 million jackpot awaits lottery winner By DOROTHY PETROSKEY The Democrats on the City-' County Council gave the Republican city administration its victory on the county income tax. Without the support of the Democrats, the new tax would not have been adopted Thursday. But the Democrats apparently neither asked nor received anything from the Hudnut administration in return for their support If at least five of the six Democrats on the council had voted up but we shouldn't get too excited just yet" PHYSICISTS SAID the full meaning of the new results cant be assessed until Rubbia and other researchers resume experiments at CERN in September.

Research probing the fundamental nature of matter has proceeded over the last 75 years as physicists have discovered layer beneath layer when digging into the structure of the atom. Though protons, neutrons and electrons were once considered the fundamental, indivisible particles, subsequent experiments revealed a veritable zoo of even smaller particles, including "quarks, bosons, mesons, neutrinos and others. THE NEW suggestion is that yet another, even deeper layer may be discovered as physicists hammer ever harder on the atom. Rubbia's team and a second research group reported that they detected strange, unexplained new "jets" of charged particles emerging from the extremely energetic collisions of protons with antiprotons in the CERN accelerator. The new objects are being seen, physicists said, at a very high energy level, where theorists expected no new See ATOM Page 10 all six winning numbers in the last three drawings.

Massachusetts Lotto had a $18,218 million jackpot on March 10, and Pennsylvania had an $18.1 million jackpot on Sept 2, 1983. The winner of a Canadian lottery in January pocketed a tax-free $13.9 million $11.1 million in U.S. dollars. U.S. lotteries are taxable.

In New York's Lotto game, $1 buys two chances to win. The object is to pick six numbers between 1 and' 44 and match them to those selected during a televised drawing tonight. Multiple winners would split "the jackpot but a single winner would receive a payout of about $881,000 a year for 21 years, less tax. Index Arts, Leisure Bridge Gassified Ads Comics Crossword Editorials LifeStyle 37 39 Movies Obituaries ...:.41 Religion 14,15 Painting the Track Pharmacy Sports Statistics 55 TV-Radio 26.27 Weather 55 -17-19 ..42 55 ..40 20 16 Finance Landers .23 26 TODAY'S PRAYER' Music in praise of You, Lord, can give beautiful moments for meditation, and we offer thanks to those who play or sing the harmonious sounds and words written for You. Amen.

Telephone Numbers Circulation. ...6339211 Main Office Classified Ads. 6331212 Scores After 4:30 p.m. .6331200 Several hospitals threatened by gasoline spill from tanker By GEORGE STUTEVILLE A tanker truck overturned at a near-downtown intersection Friday, spilling gasoline and endangering the Indiana University Medical Center until the. fuel was flushed into' the city's sewer system.

There was no explosion and the only injury reported was the truck driver's scraped elbow. Police and fire officials were concerned about an explosion in the early minutes of the accident as gasoline gushed from the over New York (AP) Thousands of New Yorkers waited for hours Friday in lines that spilled onto the sidewalks, buying chances to win a record $18.5 million lottery jackpot at the rate of 17,000 tick-' ets a minute. "It's been absolute madness all day," said terminal supervisor Marian Malloy. "The lines have been like this since 7 this morning." Deadline for the drawing is 8 p.m. today.

Lottery officials said business has boomed at most of the state's 2,400 authorized Lotto dealers since the jackpot for today's drawing, the largest ever in North America, was an-' nounced on Thursday. The jackpot grew from $3 mil-' lion because no one has picked THE WEATHER Joe Crow says: Drivers In to day's qualifies Uoni better not tick their arms out of their cockpits during time trials. They'll be airborne. Indianapolis Chance of showers, partly sunny today; morning low, 53; high, 75. Fair, mild tonight Sunny, wanner Sunday; mornirfg low, 50; high, 83.

Indiana Chance of morning showers, partly sunny, mild today, morning lows, 48 55; 73 83. Fair tonight, Sunday, morning lows, 53; highs, 71 85. Details on Page 55 Crime alert-91i Ml i $8r By EDWARD CODY The Washington Post San Salvador, El Salvador Jose Napoleon Duarte was officially declared the winner Friday in El Salvador's presidential election. But his right-wing opponent refused to concede, saying the vote was meaningless because of fraud and U.S. intervention.

The Central Elections Council (CEC), after Ave days of counting, announced that Duarte won 53.59 percent of the vote, or 752,625 ballots, to 46.40 percent, or 651,741 ballots, for former Maj. Roberto d'Au-buisson of the Republican Nationalist Alliance. The remainder of the ballots. were classified as void, abstentions or contested. THE OFFICIAL results thus deviated only slightly from the unofficial count of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party, on the strength of which Duarte proclaimed himself the victor one day after Sunday's Set DUARTE Page II kTLl VUlJif Star ky Frank H.

FOm City firemen walk through gasoline pooled on the street after the accident Tanker spilled an estimated 5,000 gallons, and officials said most of it was flushed into sewers.

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