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BOMB MAKERS 2 Part Aug. 17,1 970 Psychiatrist Portrait of a pg angflf 3 Zimt 4 Draws Bomber year veteran of the LAPD, Wolfer or one of his men, gives an average of three lectures a week telling businessmen the dangers of bombs and what to da about them. Usually the smartest thing to do is call bomb squad. The four-man group's special equipment includes two panel trucks specially built to withstand bomb blasts, a bomb-carrying sled and a trailer with a tank designed to channel explosions straight up and down. All the equipment was designed by Wolfer, and his been widely copied ia the United States and Canada.

Wolfer's methods -are not complicated, but they re-quire a knowledge of bomb construction. When a bomb is found he has two choices: dismantle it or detonate it. Since one never knows when the next tick of a bomb will be the last, it is best to dismantle it. Detonation usually requires taking the bomb to another site and moving it may result in detonation. tions tn complicated problems.

That's what enables them, without knowing it, to attribute their complex frustrations and problems to a single villain, namely society." On July 2, outside the Compton police station, there was a terrifying explosion which scattered parts of a time bomb and parts of Tommy Harper for hundreds of feet. Police said it appeared Tommy planned to plant the bomb at the station. Why? Some say Tommy hated police because they once arrested him for possession of marijuana. Oth-ers say his haired stemmed from a cross having been burned on his lawn and no one ever being prosecuted for the act. although Tommy claimed police knew the culprit.

Some theorized Tommy hated police simply because he felt they represented racist society. In any case, Tommy Harper, who never used to fight back, apparently thought, he had found a simple solution to a complicated problem. "'Sooner or later they blame society for all their problems. It's always the crazy, sick society." Tommy never seemed to blame anyone for anything until he got to college. There he selected an adversary: racist society.

And he developed what one girl who knew him well called an "off the pig" (kill the police) attitude. Tommy attended rallies and confrontations, often staying in the background. Occasionally he spoke, and Abel Sykes, Compton College president, remembers Tommy's talk was sometimes "the vilest." Police said Tommy's apartment was filled with Maoist and Black Panther literature. They said they found a loaded hunting rifle under his bed, and in his closet they discovered a loaded shotgun, three sticks of dynamite seven and a half pounds of plastic explosive and various paraphernalia for manufacturing bombs. "Their unconscious always looks (or simple solu are constantly alert.

School security officers are increasingly watchful. the first six months of this year, the Los Angeles Police Department responded to 257 bomb calls. In all of last year there were 292. A bomb threat does not mean a bomb exists. LAPD bomb squad officials estimated only 75 of their calls lead to finding suspected bomb only 25 of the packages are actual bombs and about 0rr.

are built with enough skill to explode. Most security officers in Los Angeles know the most effective measure they can take when they find a suspected bomb is to call DeWayne Wolfer. YVolfer is a 45-year-old chemist with a degree from USC and a nationwide reputation for having developed some of the best bomb safety equip-m t. He headed the LAPD bomb squad until he recently announced his retirement. A quiet, thoughtful 20- Continued from First Page In high school, Tommy had neither enemies nor many close friends, said a classmate, Tony Aldrette.

"He was kind of Aldrette said. "Everyone got along with him but kids always made fun of him." Tommy was mercilessly teased, especially about his thick glasses. In high school, not many boys cry publicly when they are teased. Tommy did. He cried, but he did not light.

"The. are almost invariably failures academically and on jobs," the psychiatrist said. In high school and at, Compton College it. was extremely unusual for Tommy to get a grade as high as a C. His average was approximately D.

And his record in grammar school and junior high had been about the same. Tommy worked for nine months at the Mattel toy company. He was fired for absenteeism: "Although they often fail academically, persons likely to use bombs are not stupid. To the contrary, they are usually basically intelligent. But they are usuallv under-achievers.

None of Tommy's school records show his IQ. But his teachers from grade school on agree: Tommy Harper was intelligent. "He was smart, but he didn't do the work." Fred Kennedy, Tommy's former junior high school principal, now a Compton unified School District area superintendent. Harper was very intelligent. 1 never believed his grades indicated his intelligence." Robert Barnett, Compton College printing teacher, who dropped Tommy from his class for absenteeism.

"I saw him as highly intelligent and quick." Manual Leonardo, Compton College speech teacher, whose class Tommy said he took to see if the teacher was a racist. "It is highly significant that their fathers are often absent, rejecting, unloving or rery strict, and the potential bombers frequently develop deep feelings of personal Tommy's father was not absent, and he denies being rejecting, unloving 'or very strict. But Marvin Pierson remembers Tommy's father was "strict on him, from what I knew." A m- Mm -v. Hi vz fe Tommy Harper III Pierson said the father "would come out and chase Tommy around the street. "If Tommy'd see his old man coming out there for something and he was mad, he'd run to his mother try to get to the house before his father." Richard another friend of Tommy's, said his dad "was no more strict than other fathers." Yet, when Tommy was 21 his father told him to change his ways or leave home.

"He kept all types of hours, refused to do any work around the house unless forced to, ditched school, didn't want to get a job." the father said. He visited sometimes, and five months before his death he stayed a few weeks while recuperating from an illness. But in general Tommy staved awav from home. it iY7 Continued from First Page Despite the precautions, department store executives blanch at the word bomb. Another favorite target, Los Angeles International Airport, cut back its bomb scares by searching planes in a remote part of the airport so that those calling in bomb threats could not get their "kicks" by watching fire trucks, police and FBI rush to the scene, an airport security official said.

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