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Guyana Tragedy Puts Lawyer Lane Back in the Limelight by Rogers Worthington !noune, uesciay. Liecemper 26 1978 Guyana tragedy puts lawyer Lane back in the limelight By Rogers Worthington of the events he writes and lectures about is usually alter the fact. EMPHIS — The lights are burning, Within a week of returning Lane already the television cameras are moving was considering how best to capitalize on in, and an owlish-eyed, bearded, and his unique access to-the Jonestown story. He well-coiffed Mark Lane, 51, is corn- has dropped his former lecture agents and ing across amazingly buoyant for a man signed up with New Line Cinema, an ag- who only a few weeks before survived one gressive firm that has already booked of the most mind-numbing catastrophes in -him for more than 30 lectures in the next '31/2 modern history. months at between X3,500 and $3,000 each. It is 9 a.m. and Lane is starting a busy Saturday with a television panel show about The Los Angeles Times Syndicate is report- the death orgy in Jonestown. After that is edly getting $40,000 from European maga- lunch with several newsmen and another zines for a series of five Lane-written arti- taping session: this one a segment for a cles. He got a healthy slice of the syndi- French television show. The rest of the day cated TV panel show produced in Memphis will be consumed by phone calls and a pro: and syndicated in several cities across the cession of reporters to his modest house on- country. And Lisa Collier, his New York Memphis' south side. agent, is talking to publishers about a book This is the way life is for Mark Lane ' she expects will command $100,000. She's since a turning from Guyana last month. He talking with filmmakers and television pro-' and fellow attorney Charles Garry repre- ducers about a docu-drama as well. Copyright Gregory Robinson sented the Rey. Jim Jones during the tragic AND LANE is back in action in one of his visit to Jonestown. Guyana by Rep. Leo favorite roles: the embattled activist lawyer Ryan (D., Cal.). While Ryan and four others Mark Lane and fellow attorney Charles Garry (right) talk with cult leader Jim fending off, attacking. and flirting with the ; Jones the day before the Guyana killings. Jones had a nervous trait of rubbing were being gunned down by Jones' minions press; lambasting the government and its in- at the tiny Port Kaituma airstrip 8 miles his tace with his hand when..fie became tense, as he does here. This picture telligence agencies; traveling about, expres- was taken by San Francisco photographer Gregory Robinson, who was killed away, Lane says he and Garry were being sing righteous indignation, and defending the in the airport shooting the next day.) • held captive on the edge of Jonestown. And DOW dim and compromised -cause he once e.-hils members the jungle coineluee lay saw in Jonestown. dead or convulsing from potassium cyanide All the while, his name continues to crop poisoning, Lane-and Garry were escaping - NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS who have 'Through it all is the tantalizing hint that up in connection with JonestOwn. "Lane Ad- never considered Mark Lane their favorite through the bush. mits He Knew of Cult's Oppression," "Lane Lane knows still more than he is willing to guy dropped usually tempered tones to give tell. Indeed, there are moments when event: THE REASONS for the buoyant spirit that Sees 'Master Plan' by Cult for Political him a once-and-for-all word lashing. Jimmy Murders," "Mark Lade Fears Ile-Is in connected to Jonestown and the Peoples has characterized him much of the time Breslin admitted to despising him. Nick Danger Because of Temple seem to revolve around Mark Lane. since his"-return are,. like many things about - Connection With Cult." Thimmesch called him a "vulture," and the Mark Lane, complex and contradictory. He One story, proved wrong, had him seeking usually measured Anthony Lewis of the New On one hand he obviously mourns the is, understandably, almost giddy at having immunity for himself- as well as his client, York Times (not Mark Lane's favorite news- needless loss of so many lives, and on the survived, and at the same time at having former top Jones aide Terri Buford. Another paper) called him a "ghoul" whom "it is other hand he appears to be having the time been one of the few witnesses to the final story had him and Buford in Switzerland time for the decent people of the. United of his life. He is wary, titillated, cautious, living hours of Jonestown. two yeeks ago at the same time some 'States to tune out," and suggested news- - voluble, exhilarated, exhausted, suspicious, In a macabre way, it is unbelievable good Peoples Temple numbered bank accounts -- paper editors and television producers seri- indignant, excited, fearful, outraged,.ebul- fortune for Lane, whose involvement in most were supposedly emptied, ously consider blackballing him. Continued on page 2: .
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