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LaRouche, who warned that he would not "submit passively to an arrest," apparently blames his troubles on the Communists: a spokesman claimed Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had "demanded the head of LaRouche on a platter" prior to the Iceland minisummit. But his real adversaries are closer to home. The Leesburg raid was almost a community effort: residents, wary of the paranoid strangers in town, provided furtive assistance to investigators, taking down auto-license numbers of LaRouche followers and reporting suspicious behavior. LaRouche has "alienated a lot of the local people," said a police officer. "He called two elderly ladies Communists and dope pushers. These are people who are well respected here." Instead of inciting the Kremlin, LaRouche seems to have stirred up his neighbors. --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta