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Times 168 Pases Louisville, Sunday, June 12, 1977 Copyright 1977, The Courier-Journal A Timet Newsstand 50c Home delivery 45c Battle-ready Dutch had practiced for raid The 53 hostages released in the Dutch assaults went home for tearful reunions with family and friends, Page A 6. South Moluccan gunmen on the train and in the school since the dual siege began May 23. "There was no end in sight After three weeks, the terrorists had returned to the same hard line they took on the first day. The health of the hostages was in danger. I felt the terrorists were playing poker and were willingto go to the very end," he said, and the govern-ment decided "the risks i were acceptable." The mood of the country had also grown increasingly impatient and angry over the lingering siege, a political factor that Mulder and Justice Minister Dries Van Agt acknowledged was an ingredient in the government's decision to attack.

All the hostages were discharged and none chose to stay for a 24-hour period to help them adjust to normal conditions. In a radio broadcast, Dutch Prime Minister Joop Den Uyl said, "The feelings we have now are mixed. We feel thanks that an end has come to the unbearable torture of the hostages and their relatives. In the end, we saw no other way" than force. "But that violence proved necessary is something we feel as a defeat," he said.

Nevertheless, from the start the Dutch were working on contingency plans for a daring and risky last-resort assault. Mulder said he had the feeling he could have gone on talking to the clever 24-year-old terrorist leader, Max Papi-laya. But he said that no one could say what the limits of stress were for the passengers. "Unfortunately, force was the possibility that best guaranteed that the mental condition of the passengers could be kept within tolerable limits," Mulder said. "It is not better to have mentally healthy terrorists and sick hostages," he added.

The chief psychiatrist at the hospital in Groningen where the hostages were taken said. "Most of them were in reasonable condition, considering the extreme stress they've been through." By Michael Getler L.A. Times-Washington Post Service ASSEN, The Netherlands Dutch troops who freed hostages from a terrorist-held train early yesterday rehearsed their lightning attack on an empty train miles away, secretly bugged the train where the hostages were held and monitored the terrorists' movements with heat-sensitive radar, authorities disclosed. There had been days of thorough preparation for a military assault on the train and at the school where other hostages were being held. But it was not until Friday that the Dutch government decided to drop its efforts to talk the terrorists into surrender and to turn instead to force.

Within hours of the train and school seizures, specially picked Dutch Royal Marines and civilian and military police began practicing an assault using another train many miles from the one under siege. The marines had undergone similar training 18 months ago when another band of Moluccan extremists seized a train at nearby Beilen and held it for 12 days. Those gunmen eventually gave up after killing three of their hostages. As the siege dragged on, and while psychiatrists talked over the field telephones, other commando-style troops are said to have slipped tiny listening de-See DUTCH Back page, col. 2, this section A fear that "not much time was left" before the strain of captivity severely harmed the hostages and a growing bitterness among the Dutch public toward the three-week stalemate were key factors in the decision to storm the train and school, Dutch officials said.

"We felt the situation had gone as far as it could," said Dr. Dick Mulder, the chief Justice Ministry psychiatrist who had talked by field telephone with the Viva le Slew! Four-length victory at Belmont earns Triple Crown for Seattle Slew Seattle Slew's time was 2:29 35, which was off the world record of 2:24 set by Secretariat on a lightning fast track in the 1973 Belmont. Inevitable comparisons with Secretariat will increase now that Seattle Slew has wrapped up the Triple Crown. There's no question that Secretariat was more spectacular in sweeping to victory in the 1973 Triple Crown. But he was not unbeatable, suffering five defeats in his 21-race career; So far Seattle Slew has been invincible.

W. E. (Smiley) Adams knows something about trying to beat Seattle Slew. "It don't look like I can beat him," said Adams, the trainer of gritty Run Dusty Run. "I've run against him three times and lost three times." Run Dusty Run finished second in the Kentucky Derby and third in the Preak-ness.

Adams was displeased enough with Darrel McHargue's ride in the Preakness that he switched riders for the Belmont, naming Sandy Hawley to pilot Run Dusty; Run. "I can't give him an excuse today," Adams said. "The boy rode him good. He just couldn't outrun the other horse. He just couldn't catch Seattle Slew is what it amounts to." Does Adams consider Seattle Slew a great horse? "He runs awful damn good," Adams See SLEW Back page, col.

2, this section BY JIM BOLUS Courier-Journal Times Staff Writer NEW YORK With Seattle Slew only three or four strides away from achieving immortality, his jockey French Canadian Jean Cruguet stood up in the saddle and raised his right hand triumphantly. Vive la France! Seattle Slew then hit the finish line four lengths ahead of his constant pursuer, Run Dusty Run, to win the $181,800 Belmont and become the first unbeaten horse to win the Triple Crown. Vive le Slew! "This was the easiest race in the Triple Crown," said part owner Mickey Taylor afterward, holding a glass of champagne as he and others in his party toasted Seattle Slew's victory. "He turned back two or three challenges, and he just kept on going. He didn't have to extend himself.

Jean's done a fantastic job with him." It was a spectacular afternoon for Cruguet, who won four races in the card, including the $85,800 Mother Goose Stakes on Road Princess, a 40-1 shot. Seattle Slew was no longshot. He paid $2.80 to win to his many backers yesterday in the Belmont Park crowd of 70,229, some of whom plan to save their $2-win tickets as mementos. It was a race to remember, this Belmont. Seattle Slew went to the front at the start and led all the way.

As he has done in most of his races, he pulled out to a safe lead in the upper stretch and, for all practical purposes, the race was over at that point. Taylor, who had been confident of victory all along, knew that Slew had the race won at the top of the stretch. He noted afterward that he shook hands with Jim Hill, who owns Seattle Slew in partnership with Taylor, as Seattle Slew passed the three-sixteenth pole. Taylor said that a little later he kissed his wife, Karen, and Hill's wife, Sally. Despite the confidence that radiated from the Seattle Slew camp throughout the Triple Crown races, doubters still remained.

Some wondered whether he was capable of holding on in the demanding 1 12-mile Belmont. Some of those same skeptics, of course, questioned in Louisville whether he was a mile-and-a-quarter horse. He answered that question on Derby Day, and yesterday he buried once and for all any doubts about his staying power. Seattle Slew's eight precious races all had been on fast racetracks, and some questioned whether he could run on any other kind of surface. He answered that question, too, having no problems handling the muddy going.

"He likes all tracks," Hill said. "He loves the grass, too." i Staff Photo by Din Dry Jockey Jean Cruguet gives a wave of Victory aboard Seattle Slew at the finish of the Belmont Stakes. Cloud hopper Tne train starts stopping National Weather Service 11 Lab tests show smoke at club fire likely to have contained cyanide gas again in Mays ville today big celebration at the train station, down by the river at the end of Rosemary Cloo-ney Street, is because nobody had time to plan one. LOUISVIUE area Partly cloudy, 20 per cent chance of showers through tomorrow. High today, mid-80s; tomorrow, low 80s.

low tonight, mid-oOs. KENTUCKY Partly cloudy with chance of showers through tomorrow. Highs both days, upper 70s to upper 80s west. Lows tonight, upper 50s to upper 60s. INDIANA Partly cloudy, chance of showers today; sunny tomorrow.

Highs both mid-70s to mid-80s. Lows tonight, mid-50s to low 60s. -High yesterday, 88; low, 56. Year ago yesterday: High 88; low 64. Sum Rises, sets, 9:06.

Moon: Rises, 3:48 a.m.; sets, 5:32 p.m. Weather map and details, Page 14. By RICHARD WHITT Courier-Journal Times Staff Writer 177. The Courier-Journal Times SOUTHGATE, Ky. The black smoke that filled the Beverly Hills Supper Club minutes after the May 28 fire was discovered may have contained deadly cyanide gases, The Courier-Journal has learned.

Laboratory tests performed for The Courier-Journal show that cyanides were present in smoke produced by burning foam-rubber padding in chairs identical to those at the supper club. Two other tests one performed for an attorney and the other in connection with the state's investigation also have revealed cyanide gases in smoke from the burning foam padding. Several independent investigations are under way to determine if cyanide poisoning was to blame for any of the deaths in the fire at the supper club in Southgate. The fire killed 161 people. Most apparently died of smoke inhalation carbon monoxide poisoning according to Campbell County Coroner Fred G.

Stine. (Carbon monoxide is formed when common materials such as wood or paper burn.) A Pennsylvania pathologist, hired by Cincinnati attorney Stanley Chesley, has questioned Stine's assessment. "To say that all the victims died of carbon monoxide poisoning is like saying a person died from burns just because his body is burned," said Dr. Cyril Wecht, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, coroner. Wecht said autopsies and toxicology See TESTS Back page, col.

1, this section City officials and others found out about 10 days ago that Amtrak, the national railroad corporation, planned to add Maysville as a stop for its James Whitcomb Riley passenger train, which makes daily runs between Chicago and Washington. The Riley has been rolling through See PASSENGER PAGE 14, col. 4, this section inside. in By KEN HOSKI.NS Courier-Journal Staff Writer MAYSVILLE, Ky. Today marks something of a milestone for this scenic, old river town.

For the first time in eight years, a passenger train is going to stop here. Now, that may not stir some people's imagination, but for the folks who live in this hard-to-get-to city along the Ohio, it's pretty exciting. "We're just tickled to be back on the map," said City Manager Dennis Redmond. "It's sort of a victory." And the only reason there won't be a Police continue search for Ray; escapee caught From L.A. Times-Washimton Post Service and AP Dispatches PETROS, Tenn.

James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King remained free last night after his bold and well-organized breakout over the rock wall of a Tennessee state prison. The early afternoon arrest of another escapee and the spotting of two others, however, led officials to believe that Ray and four other convicts at large were still nearby in rugged mountain terrain. While officials pressed their search for the escapees with hounds, helicopters and heavily armed state police SWAT teams, the state commissioner of correction, Murray Henderson, discounted statements that the seven prisoners who bolted for the wall of Brushy Mountain State Prison. Friday night had outside.help.

Ray has recanted his confession that he killed King and has claimed instead that he bought the rifle using, in the shooting for others. But Henderson scoffed at suggestions that Ray had been freed by people who wanted to eliminate him in order to silence the key figure in what some believe is a still-undetected conspiracy kill King. "We know they had help from other See POLICE Back page, coL 4, this section Cancer is the nation's second largest killer, but a new book argues that the disease does not need to end in tragedy. The first of six excerpts from "You Can Fight Cancer and Win" is in Accent. Page Photo by Mike Fisher Accent Section Business Section Classified 8, Section Deaths 11, 20 Lively Arts Section Opinion 2 Sports Vol.

244, NO. 13 Shouldering his load Chris Elmore, 6, of Somerset, helps his father, Don Elmore, house in a Civil War battle reenactment yesterday on the Old Capi-nd the other Confederate troops capture the Corydon, court- tol grounds. (Another picture, Page 1.).