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prwwri nll.lwl.;iwlWIWiw..i..i.l.M.i.i1it.jw i yiP- iwMrTjH BULLS SWEEP Jordan leads Chicago past Detroit to team's first trip to NBA finals Sports, Fl THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEPRESSION Prozac helped columnist find hope and help, Sunrise, Dl ARREST MADE IN GANDHI KILLING Tamil woman believed accomplice to assassin, World, A5 INDI TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1991 "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor. 3:17 it ft 35 Cents Star ANAPOLIS Mears gets $1.2 million for win Jeff Andretti follows dad, brother as top rookie at '500' Crash experts suspect bomb By BILL BENNER STAR STAFF WRITER Driver Rick Mears and car owner Roger Penske happily accepted their annual donations from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday night. In both cases, however, It was money In return for services rendered winning Sunday's 75th running of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. Mears, who drove the Marlboro Penske-Chevy to his fourth "500" victory, received a first-place check of more than $1.2 million from a record purse slightly In excess of $7 million during the Victory Awards Banquet In the Indiana Convention Center. The payoff enabled Mears to become the speedway's first 84 million man.

His career "500" earnings In 14 races total $4,162,989. "Just to be part of the 75th race was special, and winning it made It even more special," said Mears. Mears, whose fourth triumph tied him with A.J. Foyt and Al Unser Sr. as the all-time winnlngest driver, picked up the two biggest single accessory prizes: $100,000 from PPG Industries for winning the pole position and $100,000 from Chevrolet for having the highest-finishing Chevy-powered race car, Mears' bonanza also boosted Penske's winnings as a car owner to more than $9.9 million.

He has had 14 drivers since coming to the speedway In 1969. Boosted by an Increase of more than $500,000 from Indianapolis Motor Speedway the total purse was $7,009,150. The previous record, set last year, was $6.3 million. Accessory prizes, which are part of the total See '500' Page 4 Monroe I Jf 7f County jfgi vets get jtfr 4 0 their due i.rf sw 11 i VN t.i; 1 M. SCOTT hi ft ih.

all Jp-iiprT By MARC D. ALLAN STAR STAFF WRITER Bloomlngton Monroe County officially made Its peace with the Vietnam War on Monday, honoring the 24 men from the county who were killed In Southeast Asia. For some, the ceremony and limestone monument at the Memorial Day's meaning more powerful in war's wake, Page A3 Returning Desert Storm troops get a warm holiday welcome, Page C1 courthouse came 20 Memorial Days too late. But the effort was appreciated. "It's a lot late, but at least it's being done," said Jim Logsdon.

a 42-year-old Vietnam veteran from Attica who lost both legs when he stepped on a land mine. "It's time for a lot of the anger and a lot of the guilt we've felt through the years to be over, and for us to band together. I think that's finally coming to be." 1 With the sun blazing overhead, veterans, family and friends about 1,500 In all watched the dedication of the memorial, which names all 24 dead. Family members placed red roses In front of the monument for each soldier. "(This) Is not a memorial to ASSOCIATED PRESS Jeff Andretti said that winning rookie of the year made him feel as if he'd won the race.

More stories on F1. STAR STAFF PHOTO FRANK ESPICH son's name on the veterans deputy prosecutor. "I'm really impressed with Monroe County for doing it." Vietnam veterans at the ceremony echoed those sentiments and said the United States learned an Important lesson from Vietnam. "Desert Storm proved that See VETS Page 4 their initial fire on the guard posts and an ammunition dump within the sprawling complex. Within minutes, the dump exploded with a ferocious roar.

Explosions from the ammunition dump continued for more than an hour. The fighting continued for two hours before It appeared to slacken, the booming of the tank cannons and the swishing roar See ETHIOPIA Page 8 the legislature defeated changes to the state's living will laws but passed Senate Bill 237. It lets competent adults appoint a representative to make legal and medical decisions for them If they are Incapacitated. What killed the living will bill was sentiment, fostered by some religious conservatives, that withdrawing food and hydration was Immoral. See LEGISLATURE Page4 Helen Ziel, mother of Joseph Bernard Ziel, a casualty of memorial dedicated Monday in Bloomington.

By CHARLES P. WALLACE LOS ANGELES TIMES Bangkok. Thailand Western security officials Monday surveyed the wreckage of an Austrian airliner that crashed In northern Thailand and said they were nearly certain that the plane was downed by a bomb explosion. "All the available evidence points to a bomb," one Western official said. "The pieces of the plane wreckage were literally tiny and spread out over a wide area." "It was far.

far worse than Lockerbie." said a Western airline official familiar with the In- Ex-Lauda Air pilot praises airline operation, Page C5 vestlgatlon Into the crash of a Pan American Boeing 747 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 19H8. The Pan Am plane, which carried 270 passengers and crew members, was later found to have been downed by a bomb placed aboard In Frankfurt, Germany, apparently by terrorists from the Middle East. Franz Karner, Hong Kong sales manager for Lauda Air. the airline that owned the Boeing 767-300 jet.

told a news conference In the British colony Monday that the plane appeared to have been destroyed by an explosion and subsequent fireball on board. Asked If he thought ft was a bomb, he replied, "It looks like It." All 223 passengers aboard the plane were killed when it exploded In the air Sunday night and crashed Into remote hilly Jungles near the provincial town of Suphan Burl, about 120 miles northwest of Bangkok. See BOMB Page 4 Japan warns U.S. to keep space station. By DAVID E.

SANGER NEW YORK TIMES Tokyo The Japanese government, angered that Its participation in the proposed space station is threatened by congressional budget cuts, has Issued an unusually blunt and direct warning that It might refuse to contribute billions of dollars to future U.S.-led "big science" projects unless plans to build a vast outpost In space remain Intact. The warning caps months of increasingly bitter exchanges between Japan and the United States over the repeated reduction of the space station's size and capabilities. Those efforts have been opposed by Japan, which at American urging made the space station the center of its own space plans for the next two decades. Japan Is building a critical $2 billion space laboratory, the Japan Experimental Module, that Is to be attached to the station, and has already sunk roughly S300 million into the project. If it refused to participate In other U.S.-led projects, Japan could cripple a number of tremendously expensive programs the United Slates says It cannot afford on Its own.

Chief among them is the giant Superconducting Supercollider, scheduled to be built In Texas later In the decade. Japan See JAPAN Page 8 7 finally recognize the difference between the warriors and the wars they are called upon to fight." Bruce William Shaffer was one of the men honored. He was killed June 28, 1969. He didn't believe in the war, said Margaret Shaffer Vegeler, who was his wife then. But he Rebels move into Ethiopian capital after U.S.

urging dis Ababa over the weekend and had encircled the city as government soldiers deserted en masse. It was not known early today if the rebels had complete control of the city, and the whereabouts of Lt. Gen. Tesfaye Gcbre-Kldan, the acting pres-dient. were not immediately known.

The assault on the presidential palace began at 5:25 a.m. as the rebels opened fire with tanks, multiple rocket launchers the Vietnam War, touches her told her: "I'm going to come back, and when I come back, people will listen to me more because I've been there." They had been married two weeks when he left for the war. "This Is a visually beautiful memorial, and it's very therapeutic," said Vegeler. now remarried and an Allen County and automatic weapons. It could not be determined If the palace was captured, although a rebel spokesman In London claimed as much.

The spokesman. Assafa Mamo. said rebels also had taken the radio station. He said the only substantial fighting was around the presidential palace. Indeed, the rebels apparently met little-resistance elsewhere.

At the presidential palace, the rebels appeared to concentrate Sue Ann Lawrance may get new guardian, Page C1 Lawmakers will try again to break gridlock, Page C4 Hoosiers cannot state for themselves that they would not want to be kept alive by food-supplying tubes, but they can appoint someone to make that decision for them. The contradiction arose when i the Vietnam War," said Doug Stauch, a founding member of Vietnam Era Veterans Alliance, the organization that worked for seven years to raise $90,000 to erect the monument. "Even most of those Americans who did not support our country's recent Involvement in Operatlort Desert Storm seem to Shamir calls on Israel to welcome Ethiopians, Page A5 the insurgents to enter the capital to restore order. Addis Ababa fell exactly a week after the country's longtime Marxist president, Menglstu Halle Mariam. resigned and fled to Zimbabwe.

The rebels some of whom have been fighting since 1961 reached the outskirts of Ad PRAYER Thank You, Lord, for new beginnings, a new day, a new hour, a new season or a new meeting with You, gracious Lord, filling our hearts with renewed optimism and renewed peace. Amen. CHUCKLE Doctors' conference on Infection: staph meeting. VOLUME 88, No. 358 Copyright 1991.

The Indianapolis Star By REID G. MILLER ASSOCIATED PRESS Addis Ababa. Ethiopia Rebels moved easily Into the capital and attacked the presidential palace at daybreak today, apparently seizing control from a government that collapsed under a three-month offensive. The rebels entered the city Just hours after the government declared a cease-fire and the United States, at peace talks it was sponsoring In London, urged INDEX Almanac D6 Bridge 06 Business B1-8 Classified B6-8 Ads E1-8 Comics 04 Crossword D6 Ooonesbury Editorials A6 Graham Heloise D5 Horoscope D6 Jumble D6 Dr. Lamb D5 Landers 05 Lotteries A2 Movies 02 Obituaries C2.E1 Painting the Town 05 People Sports Statistics El TV-Radio Weather A2 44 pages PHONE NUMBERS Circulation 633-9211 Main Office 633-1240 Classified Ads 633-1212 Scores after 4:30 p.m 633-1200 State legislature contradicts itself on issue of withdrawing life support By MARY BETH SCHNEIDER STAR STAFF WRITER When the Indiana General Assembly defeated a bill In April that expanded the state's living will law, it said more study was needed before hopelessly 111 people should be allowed to have food and hydration cut off.

That same legislature had earlier passed a bill that would allow just that. Ironically, the result is that.