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Tip' O'Neill ponders retirement

c. 1984 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON R ep Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., the speaker of the House, said Wednesday that he would like to retire from Congress at the end of the year and become ambassador to Ireland “or some place like that.” The 71-year-old Massachusetts Democrat acknowledged that such an eventuality depended on the election of a Democratic president, which he called “definitely in the realm of possibility.” Otherwise, he said in an interview, “I’ll definitely leave after the next term,” which ends in 1986. In either case, O’Neill predicted he would be succeeded as speaker by Rep. Jim Wright of Texas, the House majority leader. This would be a political shift to the right, because O’Neill considers himself an unvarnished liberal, steeped in New Deal traditions, while Wright is a moderate who, in the speaker’s words, “is in the center of our party.” The comments by O’Neill, who has served more than three decades in the House, provided the first indication that he was thinking about leaving the chamber. They were reminiscent of the career of

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Mike Mansfield, a Montana Democrat who retired in 1976, leaving the post of Senate majority leader, to become ambassador to Japan. The speaker said he did not regard an ambassadorship as an unrealistic goal. Speaking of the prospects of President Reagan’s re-election, O’Neill said: “There’s no way he can win unless he gets 32 percent of the Democratic vote. He can get the Republican and independent vote, but he needs Democratic votes to win.” Aides to O’Neill said Wednesday that he was in good health and had lost none of his vigor. Why, then, would he leave the House, to which he was elected in 1952 and where he has served as speaker since 1977? “He’s always wanted to be ambassador to Ireland,” a top aide to O’Neill said. O’Neill was elected to the Cambridge, Mass., district vacated by John F. Kennedy when he defeated Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952. O’Neill was a protege of former Speaker John McCormack, another Massachusetts Democrat who was occasionally at odds with the Kennedy family. But through the

Blackout affects parts of 6 states

By CAROLYN SKORNECK Associated Press Writer Traffic lights went out, movie theaters scrapped showings and restaurants had to serve cheese and crackers by candlelight when a blackout hit parts of six Western states for up to V-k hours, putting 3 million utility customers in the dark, authorities said. Officials today were trying to determine what caused a major north-south power transmission line to fail Wednesday night in northern California, darkening parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Texas. The 500-kilovolt Pacific Gas &

years, O’Neill developed a close relationship with Kennedy and his two brothers, Sens. Robert F. Kennedy of New York and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. In January 1977, when O’Neill became speaker of the House, he quickly disagreed with many of the policies and practices of the Carter administration. With President Carter’s defeat in 1980, the speaker became his party’s national spokesman. O’Neill, who also quarreled with many congressional Democrats in the first two years of the Reagan administration, sharpened his opposition to Reagan since the 1982 elections, when Democrats gained 25 House seats. Since then, the speaker has enjoyed virtual veto power over legislation and has become a vigorous critic of the president, accusing him of aiding the rich at the expense of the poor. In private conversations at the White House, O’Neill has expressed exasperation with Reagan, saying he knows less about government tlian any president the speaker has known.

Electric Co. power line went out at 5:43 p.m. PST, affecting a huge, interconnecting power grid. While lights in some cities flickered for just a few minutes, electricity in other places was not restored until 8:05 p.m., officials said. “Obviously there’s something either mechanical or electrical wrong, but there’s nothing obvious like a plane going through a tower,” said Dick Davin, spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric in San Francisco. “We’ll keep investigating until we find out what happened. ” Major cities affected by the blackout included parts of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San

Gemayel visits Assad

Soviets veto U.N. resolution

By The Associated Press Lebanese President Amin Gemayel remained in Damascus today to confer again with Syrian President Hafez Assad, but Lebanon’s state radio said the two leaders already had agreed on a process to cancel the troop withdrawal pact between Lebanon and Israel. Assad, who has supported Druse and Moslem rebels in their fight against Gemayel, led a red-carpet welcome for the Lebanese president Wednesday at Damascuse airport. The men met twice during the afternon but neither side issued a statement on the talks, which could determine the future of Lebanon's government. Lebanese state radio and

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THOMAS TIP' O'NEILL:To leave Congress?

Diego and Oakland in California ; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Reno and about one-third of Las Vegas, Nev., excluding the glittering casinos and downtown; Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos, N.M.; and El Paso, Texas. According to utility officials in the six states, a total of about 3 million customers were affected. There were no reports of injuries or serious problems “no rapes, plundering or pillaging,” in the words of a San Francisco police spokesman. But there were a host of inconveniences as police directed traffic with flashlights,

Beirut newspapers did not spell out details of the reported process for scrapping the troop withdrawal pact, as Syria has demanded. But the reports said the Gemayel-Assad accord was a prelude to a new cease-fire in Lebanon’s civil war, fresh reconciliation talks between Moslem and Christian factions and formation of a national coalition cabinet. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution which would have replaced the multinational force in Lebanon with U.N. peacekeeping troops, and U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger visited Marines on ships off the Beirut coast. In Beirut, a car bomb exploded Wednesday evening out-

auditcrium lights dimmed and hospitals and prisons scrambled to turn on emergency generators. “There are a lot of burglary alarms being set off all over the city,” said Oakland police Sgt. P. Galloway. “That’s a problem. We don’t know which ones to answer.” At Grossmont Hospital in Las Mesa, Calif., auxiliary generators kept the institution operating. “We’re doing OK so far,” said nursing supervisor Virginia Ray. Backup generators also supplied electricity at San Quentin prison during the two-hou-blackout there.

side a 12-story apartment building near the state television station in the Moslem sector. Police said three civilians were killed and as many as 75 were wounded. Syria has some 30,000 troops in Lebanon and is supporting the Druse and Shiite Moslem insurgents who have driven Gemayel’s army out of west Beirut and much of the area to the south of it. Gemayel has offered to meet Syria’s demand that he scrap the May 1983 pact with Israel, which called for both Syria and Israel to withdraw their troops from Lebanon simultaneously. In New York, the Soviet Union vetoed a French resolution in the U.N. Security Council that would have sent a

Legislature convenes for final day of 'B4 session

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - With most of the year’s major issues still unresolved, Hoosier lawmakers reconvene today for the last day of the Indiana General Assembly’s 1984 session. Conference committee reports on the supplemental budget, local government finance, teacher merit pay and salary increases for state elected officials, legislators, judges and prosecutors were eligible for action.

Soviets said readying two cruise missiles

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviets are developing two new cruise missiles, one almost combat ready and the other being tested for possible submarine basing off U.S. coasts, the chief of naval intelligence says. An American laser weapon, however, capable of destroying incoming missiles with a powerful beam of light, could be ready for testing by the late 1980 s, presidential science advisor George A. Keyworth said Wednesday.

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Prime Minister Trudeau's decision not unexpected

OTTAWA (AP) - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who rode to power 16 years ago on a wave of “Trudeaumania” and dominated Canadian politics even as his popularity waned, is stepping down. Trudeau, 64, said Wednesday he will resign as soon as his Liberal Party can choose a new leader, probably in June. The new party leader will become prime minister automatically but will have to call nationwide elections by next February. Trudeau’s resignation had been expected for weeks mostly because his standing in the polls is so low that political analysts believe he could not win another election. Still, the suddenness of the announcement came as a surprise. Meeting reporters outside his office, Trudeau said he made his decision during “a great walk in the snow” Tuesday night during Ottawa’s heaviest blizzard in years, followed by lVi hours in the sauna. “I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs in my destiny in the sky and there were none; there were just snowflakes,” Trudeau said. Asked why he chose the day for his announcement, the prime minister replied, “Well, because it is a good day, it is the first day of the rest of my life.” Trudeau, a lawyer, essayist and world traveler, won election to Parliament in 1965. He

U.N. peacekeeping force to Beirut to replace the multinational force provided by the United States, France, Italy and Britain. All but the French contingent of about 1,250 men have been withdrawn, either permanently or to ships off the coast. Weinberger told reporters in Beirut that there was no change in the “rules of disengagement” under which the U.S. 6th Fleet would support Gemayel’s government. “We are providing the same basic support ... and carrying out the same basic mission we have” in the past, Weinberger said. “We’re still working and hoping that the withdrawal agreements can be arranged.”

Versions of the local government funding bill and the pay raise proposal have already passed the House. But the conference committee report on the pay raise was rejected in the Senate, and the report on the local government funding bill fell one vote shy of the 26vote constitutional majority required for adoption. Both proposals have been reworked slightly and were to be submitted to both houses for approval.

The Soviet SS-NX-21 cruise missile, nuclear tipped and launched from submarine torpedo tubes 1,900 miles from their target, could be deployed “as early as this year,” Rear Adm. John L. Butts, the Navy's intelligence chief, told the House Armed Services Committee. A second land-attack, cruise missile, larger and with greater range, has reached the testing stage and is expected to be deployed aboard a new and bigger class of submarine “in

PIERRE TRUDEAU: Stepping down

became justice minister in 1967, and was noted for eccentric habits such as wearing sandals and an Ascot tie into the House of Commons. He was picked as Liberal Party leader in April 1968, taking over as prime minister from Lester B. Pearson. He immediately called an election and won on a surge of “Trudeaumania” assisted by a

Let's make a deal: 150 wild turkeys for 30 Canadian moose c. 1984 N.Y. Times LANSING, Mich. ports, but Michigan officials are nonetheless proud of a new international trade agreement that will get them 30 moose in exchange for 150 wild turkeys. The birds will go to Ontario, and the moose will be let loose in the state’s Upper Peninsula, where it is hoped they will thrive and reproduce. “On a pound-for-pound basis, we’re doing pretty good,” says Joseph E. Vogt of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. “The difference is we’re taking the turkeys to them and we have to go up and get our own moose.” The swap is expected to cost Michigan about $60,000 in trapping and transportation costs. Officials hope to raise some of the money through contributions from hunting clubs and other donors, and have asked the U.S. Air Force to help transport the moose. Vogt and others are counting on the moose’s following the pattern of the state’s elk herd. Seven elk were imported and released in Michigan almost 70 years ago. Today, the herd is estimated at between 800 and 1,000 animals. If the moose do flourish, they’ll likely be fair game for sportsmen. “We’re putting them up there with the express purpose of having a huntable species in the future,” says Charles J. Guenther, head of Michigan’s wildlife division. “But they would serve as a tourist attraction while the herd is building up, like our elk herd around the Pigeon River country. They’re a prime tourist attraction right now. ” Moose once were plentiful in Michigan, and a few remain in isolated spots of the Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale. The turkey trade has ruffled the feathers of some residents in Ontario who feel the province has too few moose. But Canadian officials believe the return of gobblers will overcome any criticism. “We’re certainly excited about getting wild turkeys," says John Harcus of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. “It’s really caught on here.”

mid-decade,” Butts said. He did not give the name of the weapon or details about it. Butts said basing the missiles aboard submarines near the U.S. coast could be the Soviets’ promised answer to deployment of U.S. Pershing II missiles in Western Europe in 1983. The immediate Soviet response to that basing, he said, has been the appearance closer to U.S. shores recently of Deltaclass submarines, armed with SS-NlB ballistic missiles. On another subject, Butts

charismatic campaign style kissing dozens of women at each stop. Trudeau was re-elected in 1972 and 1974, defeated in 1979, then made a stunning return in 1980 after the Progressive Conservative government of Joe Clark stumbled. His tenure as prime minister is longer than that of any other current leader of a major Western nation.

said Libya has obtained a fleet of small, remotely controlled boats that could be packed with explosives and sent against targets such as U.S. warships. He said the short-range, highspeed craft have “potential for use in situations like we face in Lebanon.” Meanwhile, Keyworth said some scientists are no longer as skeptical as they were about a ground-based laser system to defend against missile attack when President Reagan proposed it last March .