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THE MICHIGAN DAIUY
Tuesday, December 7, 1976
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Gunman makes anti-smoking plea
O'Neill electeed Speaker of the House
LOS ANGELES (A') - A young gun-
man who said his father died of lung
cancer and who wanted to warn the
"whole world" against tobacco held a
man hostage for 2% hours atop a 62-
story skyscraper yesterday before he
was taken into custody without inci-
dent.
Police said that the hostage, chief
engineer for the United California Bank
Building, was released unharmed by
Dolphin Lair, a 21-year-old school
custodian.
LAIR WAS armed with a handgun,
police said.
"What did I do, what did I do?" Lair
shouted as he was -carried from the
rooftop by police.
As he was placed in a waiting police
car, Lair yelled to a nearby reporter:
"What are they going to hold me for,"
adding that all he was carrying was a
toy gun.
POLICE LT. John Dempsey said the
gun was a harmless starter pistol load-
ed with five caps. He said Lair was
booked for investigation of kidnaping
and was held on $5,000 bail.
Following his release, the hostage-
smiling broadly - thanked officers for
a "good job" and then rushed to his
office to call his wife.
Television viewers watched much of
the drama as it was photographed from
a helicopter overhead the bank build-
Jng.
"THE SUSPECT has requested that
we send up three TV camera crews so
he can tell the world his problem,"
police spokesman Lt. Dan Cooke. said
at one point during the incident. "His
problem appears to be that he doesn't
like cigarettes or nicotine."
Helicopters had circled the building,
tallest west of Chicago and 10th tallest
in the world, as the well-dressed gun-
man held Martin Hickey, 60, near the'
edge of the roof, said police spokes-
man Richard Todd.
A crudely written letter thrown to
police by the gunman proclaimed: "I
want the wholedworld to know that
nicotine is a deadly poison."
BEGINNING "To whom it may con-
cern," the letter read: "My name is
Dolphin Lair. The reason I'm express-
ing myself is that I want everyone in
the whole world to understand what
I'm doing and what I'm doing it for.
I'm doing it for my father, Herbert H.
Lair, who died of lung cancer and oth-
ers who have died of lung cancer."
Police psychologist Dr. Martin Reiser
and other police negotiators were on
the roof attempting to talk Lair into
coming down so he could talk to "all
the media," said Lt. Dan Cooke.
Reached by phone, Lair's mother,
Katherine, 43, of Los Angeles said her
son left yesterday morning wearing a
blue suit and carrying a briefcase, say-
ing lie had some business to take care
of downtown. She said she believed he
was going to the suburban Inglewood
school where he works as a custodian.
"He's doing what," exclaimed Ms.
Lair when told of her son's action. "He
left here laughing and talking . . . as if
nothing was wrong."
Ms. Lair said that his father had
died of lung cancer two months ago
and that "he's often told me that I
should stop smoking, but I never took
him seriously."
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but, as nhe closed his speech, he
told his colleagues:
"You have given me a trust.
When I lav the gavel down, I
want to walk out and have you
say 'He kept the trust."'
O'Neill's formal election by'
the full House in January is
considered automatic.
AS SPEAKER, O'Neill be-:
comes'the third highest ranking
U. S. official, and he would take
over the presidency in the event
of the deaths of the president
and vice president.-
Although Democrats have a{
two-to-one majority in the
House, O'Neill'will need all of
his gregarious, Irish persuasive-
ness to meld the diverse group
- more than half of them rela-
tive newcomers to Congress -
into a unified force.
shod over the opposition party.
Although some voiced fears
he could be too subservient to a
Democratic president, he broke;
with party leadership and the
White House in 1967 when he
came out in opposition to the
Vietnam War.
He later was a leader of the
anti-war forces ins\the House.
though the Democratic majority!
consists of 292 regular mem-f
bers, an additional four dele-1
gates from overseas territories_
and the District of Columbia1
are eligible to vote in leader-
ship elections.
Wright comes from Fortf
Worth, Texas. Although the1
most conservative of the four
members seeking the leader-1
ship post, his voting record is
mixed. He is not regarded by
environmentalists as a friend.1
The result was a sharp defeat
for Burton who had worked
hard to garner support, espe-
eially among the 48 new mem-
blrs elected in November.
Defeated in the first two bal-
hts were John McFall of Cali-
f+rnia, former Democratic whip,
who recently acknowledged re-
cei-ing :4,000 from South Ko-
rean lobbyists, and Richard
Boling, of Missouri, long a
camnaianer for institutional re-
form of the House.
O'NEILL ALSO played a key
role in the House decision to
impeach President Nixon over
the Watergate scandals.
A friend of the Kennedy fam-
ily, O'Neill learned his politics
in an Irish working class area
near Boston.
Following his election, O'Neill
told the Democrats that the first
issue in the new Congress would
be the economy and that the
government had a responsibil-
ity to put the unemployed back
to work.
Carter still unsure
abot'6tax cuts
The Democratic
in the House in
rank and file
recent years
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LANCE, however, told The
T~~ ncAnlc';p ht C r
interviewing indicated t h e
search was going into high gear.
I TAT
has become more assertive and
less amenable to party disci-
pline.
THE SMALL Republican con-
tingent in the 435-member House
is likely to be pushed into deep-
er obscurity. O'Neill has a re-
putation as being strongly par-
tisan and ready to ride rough-
r.
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I -STOP SHOPPING SAVES MONEY, TIM, ENERGY
ANOTHER leadership 1-,os inLgees rTmest 'at ar- He has snent up to eight hours
i the Democrats named ter's economic plan will likely a day on the telephone sound-
gton State Congressman include a tax reduction of tp inga ot Democratic and Repub-
s Foey, lieral asto $15 billion, a jobs program lica- leade~rs aroulnd the country
Foley, a liberal, as and tax investment credits to on the skills and compatability
an of the party caucus. spur industrial expansion. of urosuective anpointees.
e race for the majority He said the tax. cut would Carter also said he was still
lost vacated by O'Neill, probably take the form of a re- ' iria whether to broaden
53, beat Burton by 148 bate in 1976 taxes, as the quick- Inig nromiied pardon order for
in the third ballot. Al- est way to stimulate the econo- Vi-tpm draft resisters.
my. Such a rebate was pro- "IT WILL BE DONE the first
posed Sunday by economist An- veek I am in office," he said,
' ~drew Brimnmer, a Carter advis-
er and former member of the hlt whether I'll go an inch
Federal Reserve Board. frther or not is something I'll
Carter did emphasize that he have to decide."
has other options, including t His most trsted adviser, At-
some type of job - creation plan I ntm lawyer Charles Kirbo, is
to stimulate the economy and workicg on the order. Carter
help reduce unemnlovment, said he only recenty became
which now stands at 8.1 per aware of the different categor-
cent of the labor force. ies of draft resisters.
"I'LL BE consulting with my "About 250,000 Americans
economic advisers and also never did register for the draft.
with congressional leaders be- Most of them were poor and
fore I make any decision," Car- ignorant people who were never
ter said. aware of what the law is," he
It will be a joint deci-I said. "There are other categor-
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sion, I guess, between myself ies of those who first regis-
and the congressional leaders. tered and then refused to go."
IPd like to work out something Carter's proposed pardon
harmonious with them before would apply to draft resisters,
we make a final commitment." but would handle deserters "on
Carter announced he is going an individual basis." Veterans
to Atlanta today to begin a with less than honorable
series of meetings with Cabinet' discharges, those who didn't
prospects that will continue in register for the draft, and those
Washington later in the week. who have become citizens of
other countries and find them-
CARTER IS currently exam- selves barred from the United
ining detailed personnel files States as undesirable aliens
compiled on 70 potential appoin- would not be affected by a
tees for the new administration, pardon of the scope he outlined
and his decision to begin active in the campaign....
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