The NYPaper of 12-23 and 12-24-95 report on the arrest Wednesday and "suicide" yesterday of Thomas Lewis Lavy, who was jailed under anti-terrorism statutes for trying to import from Canada to Alaska 130 grams of the deadly poison ricin -- enough to "kill thousands of people," officials said. Some 40 F.B.I. agents and Army chemical warfare specialists mounted the assault in deadly "survivalist, fundamentalist" Arkansas, right deadly Ollie North's recreational-poison/gun swap fly-in. Lavy's attorney, Sam Heuer, took sharp issue with the government's accusations. "It is such a tragic case," Mr. Heuer said. "An overzealous U.S. Attorney in Alaska and a hot dog F.B.I. agent tried to paint Tom as something he was not. Tom was a very gentle, very kindly person. We have the right to have rat poison or coyote poison, just like we have the right to have a .357 Magnum." RAT_357 (12k)