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WKTHKKT()I)Y TTTl IT Star a i ME INMANAPOLl Sec. 1 Yesterday High, 84; Low, 62 Where the Spirit of the lord is. there is Liberty' -U Cor 3 17 VOLUME 75, No. 350 ir -fr -i? SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1978 ONGAIS TAKES 2ND SPOT, MEARS 3RD Snevai Om Pole Again a i full Pag Of Pictures On Pag 3, Section Mor Stories And Pictures Pag 23, Section Page 1 Section 3, And Sports Section. smooth veteran," chuckled the man who won the 1977 national driving title.

"If I could have gotten through turn three with any luck at all, things would really have been looking good." SNEVA RAN second in '77 to A Foyt, the only four-time king who is facing a long drive to claim a fifth crown. Foyt. who was practicing at 203-plus in Saturday morning's 90-minute session, eliminated himself from the pole chase by making a costly adjustment error in his turbocharger's wastegate. You are allowed 80 inches of mercury manifold pressure in USAC qualifying and this is regulated with a pop-off valve. Just before his run, A J.

set the waste- gate of his Coyote-Foyt at 19 pounds of manifold pressure instead of the 25 he was allowed. HE TOOK THE green flag to begin his qualification run, saw his boost gauge only reading 72 inches and pulled down out of the groove. He thought that L'SAC had given him a faulty pop-off valve and pulled in the pits to tell them. But following a thorough check by See SNEVA Page 23 Order Of The Day I a.m. Gates open.

Practice. Noon-6 p.m. Qualifying By ROBIN MILLER Tom Sneva, the unassuming champion whose favorite food is humble pie, turned the expected battle for the Indianapolis "500" pole position into a cakewalk Saturday. Quickly becoming one of the finest qualifiers in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history, Sneva shattered his own records and claimed the No. 1 starting spot for the second straight May as the twice-postponed time trials finally began.

The 29-year-old Spokane, talent came through with a top circuit of 203.620 miles an hour and a four-lap average of 202.156 to erase his year-old standards on day that brought out 120,000 fans and many surprises. SNEVA, ONLY the seventh driver to ever win back-to-back poles, was joined on the front row by Danny Ongais and teammate Rick Mears as 20 teams qualified for the May 28 classic. Ongais, the current point leader on United States Auto Club championship trail, stuck Teddy Field's Interscope Spl. into the second slot with a 10-mile-run average of 200.122. Having destroyed his backup Parnelli in a crash last Wednesday, Ongais only had one Cosworth engine left the one thirds of the first flank with a splendid showing of 200.078 mph.

Mears became the first rookie to sit in the front row since the late Eddie Sachs accomplished the feat in 1957. "It wasn't a smooth run by any means," said Sneva, who put together laps of 203.620, 202.566. 201.794 and 200.669 in his Norton Spirit Penske-Cosworth. "The chassis wasn't anywhere close to how I wanted it and I was doing an awfully lot of slipping and sliding for a in the car when he went out to qualify. It stayed together, but the engine shortage in the Vel Miletich-Parnelli Jones operation left Lloyd Ruby looking for a ride.

Rube was supposed to get a motor from the Interscope stable for his recently purchased Parnelli and now is out of luck. AND MEARS, a 26-year-old rookie who never sat in an Indy car until September 1976, gave Roger Penske two- 150 MASSACRED BY REBELS Stories Of Horror -A Emerge From Zaire FROM WIRE SERVICES Kolwezi, Zaire French and Belgian paratroopers captured the mining center of Kolwezi Saturday, rescuing 2,500 trapped ONGAIS 2ND AT 200.122 With Parnelli Jones (Left) -f Jf ary personnel are working on the ground at three Zaire airfields several hundred miles north of the war zone, coordinating landings of 18 C-141 Air Force transport planes No U.S. combat forces are involved, the spokesman said. A French spokesman said rebel losses "were serious, probably several dozen" and "a very great quantity of arms was seized One French foreign legionnaire was reported killed. THE FIRST REFUGEES to arrive in Kinshasa brought tales of widespread killings, gun and grenade fights in the streets and daring rescues.

"The last seven days I spent lying on the floor of my home doing a lot of praying," said Harold Amstutz of Portsmouth, who flies aircraft for a Methodist mission. "Thursday, we had a narrow escape," said Amstutz, a native of Berne, Ind. "The Katangese came looking for us, See HORROR Page 22 THE CHAPLAIN for the Belgian paratroopers said he saw several scenes of "carnage." "I saw in an area of four streets dozens of dead whites," he said. "In some houses the rebels had thrown hand grenades into rooms and then opened fire on whoever remained alive. There were many women and children among them, their bodies riddled with bullets, the walls pockmarked with shrapnel The priest buried his head in his hands.

"Oh my God, it was so horrible and awful," he said. Nearly 1,000 survivors were ferried to Kinshasa, where they were to board Belgian civilian airliners for flights to Brussels. OF THE 2,500 foreign residents of Kolwezi, 1,700 were from Belgium, the former colonial power, and 400 from France. At Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said a small number of milit I Tii ail C7- .0 1 1 U.N. Soviets Arrested In Naval Spying Case Westerners but finding the bodies of about 150 whites massacred by machete-wielding rebels in a bloodbath of terror.

In one particularly gruesome attack, the rebels who held the southern Zairean town for nine days mowed down 34 men, women and children in a tiny room, witnesses said. Several of the cadavers were locked in poses of horror. In another incident, 40 of the dead were killed in a single massacre at a huge water tower in the eastern part of the town. Zairean government officials said all those killed in the second incident were men. THE REBELS, who were retreating toward the Zambian border, grabbed a 16-year-old girl and chopped her head off with one blow of a machete, survivors said.

Medics said many of the wounded had machete cuts. Most of the 150 victims appeared to be French. Both French and Belgian parat-roop officers agreed on the figure of 150 Westerners killed. At one massacre scene, cadavers were jumbled on top of one another in a pile. A man had thrown his arm around a small girl in a futile effort at protection.

In another corner, a dead woman leaned against a wall still holding her fingers to her ears as if in expectation of the blasts to come. FRENCH FOREIGN Legion and Belgian paratroopers occupied the town Saturday and began airlifting the shocked and weeping survivors to Kinshasa. Zaire officials said the fleeing Soviet-armed rebels took about 60 white hostages with them, and some unconfirmed reports said the captives already may have been killed. The officials said the rebels, who were believed trained by Cubans in Angola, were fleeing in open rout toward the Zambian border about 30 miles south of Kolwezi. "It's all over," one diplomat said.

(Star PlwtM Frank TOM SNEVA SITS ON POLE FOR SECOND YEAR Sets Four-Lap Qualification Record Of 202.156 RICK MEARS (RIGHT) 200.078 With Owner Roger Penske '50' Www My Kw 15. Tom Bagley (No. 22), Watson DGS, 190.941. SIXTH ROW conspirator. Zinyakin wasn't arrested because he has diplomatic immunity, the FBI said.

A spokesman said the Soviets were charged with "conspiring to communicate and deliver and transmit to a foreign government, in this case the sketches, photographs, photographic negatives, plans, documents, writings, notes and information relating to the national defense of the United States He said the classified material the Soviets sought included "anti-submarine warfare, submarine-detection systems and their platforms, Lamps helicopter systems, and other classified Navy programs." Webster said the investigation dated back to August 1977, and the arrests were See SPYING Page 24 Washington lUPIl Two Soviet employees of the N. Secretariat were arrested Saturday on espionage charges involving the passing of U.S. Navy secrets to Moscow, FBI Director William Webster announced Rudolf Petrovich Chernyayev, 43, a U.N personnel officer, and Valdik Alek-sandrovich Enger, 39, an assistant to the U.N. Under-Secretary General, were arrested while in the process of receiving or passing classified material along a highway in Woodbridge, a spokesman said. "Most of the meets (where material was exchanged) were along the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway," a spokesman said In addition, Webster said the complaint named Vladimir Petrovich Zinyakin, 39, an attache in the Soviet Mission to the United Nations, as a co 16.

Janet Guthrie (No. 51), Wildcat DGS, 190.325 8. Mike Hiss (No. 7), Penske Cosworth, 194 647. 9.

Johnny Parsons (No. 16), LightningOffenhauser, 194.280. FOURTH ROW 10. Larry Dickson (No. 80), Penske Cosworth, 193.434.

11. Dick Simon (No. 17), Wildcat Offenhauser, 192.967 12. Roger McCluskey (No. 11), Spirit AMC, 192 256.

17. Spike Gehlhausen (No. 19), Eagle Offenhauser, 190.325. 18. John Mahler (No.

39), Eagle FIRST ROW 1. Tom Sneva (No. 1). Penske Cosworth, 202.156. 2.

Danny Ongais (No. 25), Parnelli Cosworth. 200.122. 3. Rick Mears (No.

71), Penske Cosworth, 200 078. SECOND ROW 4. Johnny Rutherford (No. 4), McLarenCosworth, 197.098. 5.

Al Unser (No. 2), LolaCosworth, 196.474. 6. Gordon Johncock (No. 20, Wildcat DGS, 195.883.

THIRD ROW 7. Wally Dallenbach (No. 6), McLarenCosworth, 195.228. Offenhauser, 189.723. SEVENTH ROW 19.

Tom Bigelow (No. 43), Wildcat Offenhauser, 189 115. 20. Bobby L'nser (No. 48), Eagle Cosworth, 194 658.

FIFTH ROW 13. Sheldon Kinser (No. 24), Watson Drake, 192.051. 14. Steve Krisiloff (No.

40), Wildcat DGS, 191.255. NIXON WHITE HOUSE MAY HAVE REFUSED PROBE The Weather Possible Union Infiltration Into Vice Operations Breeds FBI Controversy Joe Crow Says: Race drivers won the second round from Mother Nature after they were -1 a t. (nui out last weea. i wcniy Today's Prayer Help us, Lord, we pray, to be unafraid of the future. Instill in us a stronger faith.

Thank You, Lord, for guiding us through one day at a time. Amen. TODAY'S CHUCKLE An optimist is an unhappy spouse who goes to the marriage bureau to see if the license has expired. Star Telephone Circulation 633 9211 Main Office 633-1240 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4 30 pm. 633-1200 starling new wuue ruin held on to 13.

been an intermediary to get L. Keith Bulen, then Republican national committeeman and a friend of Mitchell, to meet with another Mitchell John N. Mitchell, the attorney general to "lobby" in support of a pardon for Teamsters boss James Riddle Hoffa Another factor in the decision to bypass the allegations may have been the fact that Morris Mitchell reportedly was an FBI informant. Another man who figured in the scenario, professional gambler Alexander E. Boalbey, another Morris Mitchell associate, had been a government witness, See FBI Page 23 reputation as the "godfather" of the gambling rackets.

At an unknown point, another informant reportedly provided a sworn statement to the bureau alleging that a top politician and yet another union official were splitting the illicit proceeds of a vice operation No action was taken on any of the information, according to sources, in part because the Nixon administration would not allow the Justice Department to act against the union without political approval. FBI AGENTS had been told earlier that Teamsters business agent Shirley R. Green, a friend of Morris Mitchell, had thorization for an FBI investigation at one point. SOURCES SAID: In the fall of 1973 the FBI received detailed information on how several Teamsters representatives allegedly were infiltrating vice operations massage parlors and possibly gambling This information, from a union official concerned about corruption, also included allegations about politically influential nightclub owner Morris Mitchell. The following spring the FBI took statements from a former gambler tying together one Teamsters business agent and Mitchell and detailing Mitchell's BY RICHARD E.

CADY And DONALD K. THRASHER Alleged labor-union infiltration into vice activities in Indianapolis five years ago now figures in an internal controversy which has shaken the FBI's organized crime squad here, according to informed sources. Failure of the FBI to act on three separate complaints or informants' statements naming at least two Teamsters Union representatives is part of the controversy, sources said. But The Indianapolis Star learned from an unimpeachable source that the Nixon White House refused to allow au Indianapolis Becoming partly sunny today; high, 74. Clear and cool tonight; low, 45.

Mostly sunny and pleasant Monday; high, 76. News Summary On Page 2 Indiana Becoming partly sunny today; highs, 68-70. Clear and cool tonight; lows, 42-52. Mostly sunny and pleasant Monday with a chance of showers south; highs, 72-78. GOVERNMENT SHOWS INTEREST IN RESTORATION U.S.

May Answer 'All Aboard' To Help Save Union Station But the investors have figured that for the '50s," related Deputy Mayor David R. Frick. "We want to preserve Union Station because it's a historic landmark," Frick said. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. "The renovation of Union Station plays a key part in downtown development," noted John Krauss, director of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee.

"We (GIPC) have a public transit task force that would look into the possibility of a transportation center, if that's needed," Krauss offered. Finding a taker for the popular, but See UNION Page 22 travel still is only tentative. "But we're looking to see if there is a workable solution," according to Forrest W. Brown, a business specialist for GSA's Chicago office. Government ownership is "a whale of an idea because it may give us a chance not only to save Union Station, but to utilize it for something that makes sense," said Bruce C.

Brown, administrator of the city's Division of Planning and Zoning. While it's hardly a secret that Union Station Associates would like to have someone take the structure off its hands, it's also probable that the group won't gain a profit from any deal. parcel post outlet also are possibilities. Renovation hopes for the station were dealt a jolt May 10 when the Capital Improvements Board released a study showing that the most feasible use considered for Union Station, rented office space, would cost up to $6 million. Rent would bring in only $97,500 annually after operating costs, while the city would have to pay $360,000 a year in interest costs for a bond issue at I percent, and that is at the lowest interest rate available, according to the study.

GSA'S INTEREST in old railroad stations structures in every major United States city which have become underused and neglected with the decline of train a long time and they might be able to write the gift off as a tax deduction. The owners also would save the $8,000 annually they pay on property taxes; about $4,000 for insurance premiums, and about another $3,000 for incidental expenses, such as security, Beckmann said. THEY'VE INVESTED a total of $500,000, including purchase price and construction costs, and "an incalculable amount of time" in the station, Beckmann said. Indianapolis and its residents want to keep Union Station from the bulldozer. "Folks talk so much about how Union Station was such a hubbub of activity in By SUSAN M.

ANDERSON The federal government may be the Savior for Union Station, the historic and architecturally important former railroad hub nearly dealt its death sentence nine days ago, The Indianapolis Star has learned. The General Services Administration office at Chicago has confirmed it is interested in donations of old railroad stations for restoration and renovation probably to whatever use proves feasible. And the massive Gothic structure's owners "would be very eager to pursue that route," stated Robert D. Beckmann project coordinator for Union Station Associates, a group of 22 investors -I headed by F.C. Tucker Company Inc.

which paid $196,000 for the station in 1974. "We certainly wouldn't rule out such a contribution," he added. MAYOR WILLIAM H. Hudnut and other city officials foresee renovated Union Station as a transportation network for Metro System and inter-city buses, taxicabs and trains a center that would reinforce Indianapolis' identity as the "Crossroads of America." City officials also are considering adding the city's first tourist reception center a launching point for visitors to Indianapolis possibly staffed with Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce personnel. A travel agency, restaurant, and.