European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine when water cannons failed to breath a steel plated rooftop Bunker of the Radical group Philadelphia officials turned to a More powerful weapon an explosive charge dropped from a it destroyed the but the resulting fire also claimed the More firepower for americas police a photos by Lawrence Kilman associated press from powerful water cannons to a bomb that set 60 Homes Philadelphia police used a wide Range of weapons in their attempt to roust members of the Radical group move from a fortified Row the old six shooter is still Standard Issue for the cop on the but departments confronted with More and More situations like that involving move have resorted to new kinds of both lethal and drug terrorists and other criminals Are armed to the and some police departments have responded with special forces that carry machine assault rifles and automatic los Angeles police even have a which they use As a battering ram against criminals fortified it shows that police have become More anti riot Antiterrorist said Leslie president of the police Marksman the search for More firepower has Many police departments replacing the six shot revolver with semiautomatic weapons that fire More re Load quickly and Are More companies like Beretta and heckler and Koch Are challenging Colt and Smith the fabled names of police in the nations largest police the six shooter is still Standard it is generally the smaller of the nations police and sheriffs departments that Are on the cutting Edge of new Wear said your average police departments Are 20and 30 Man that where change can he fewer weapons mean a switch is less but there is another these Are the ones where the Green Beret goes Back and becomes the Man in charge of the police department because Hes the sex said we see that the Guys who were in Vietnam Are much More concerned about their weapons than older said Robert a spokesman for Smith Philadelphia managing director Leo the Man who coordinated the Daylong siege against the move is a 52yearold retired major Gen eral who saw two Tours of duty in new weapons Are not adopted simply because they Are available or because officers Are intrigued by High there has to be a and the reasons Are Many in the 1981 slaying of state trooper Philip Lamonaco in a gun Battle led the department to replace Smith Wesson six shooters with heckler and Koch 9mm semiautomatic the new weapons carry nine bullets and reload three times As quickly As the old said Joseph a spokesman for the in the hostage barricade and terrorist incident team was having a Tough time Manu Evering their 12gauge shotguns and 3006 rifles in narrow Hall said John an officer in the uniform equipment standards we looked for an intermediate assault weapon for going up Small stairways in crowded apartment he they chose a Rifle with a collapsible in new where police killed an emotionally disturbed woman in an eviction proceeding last the search is on for new nonlethal the Emer gency services squad has purchased several stun guns called tasers and is experimenting with a Type that to said inspector Raymond commanding officer of the tasers shoot electrically charged darts that cause a loss of muscle stun guns Are similar in but the pocket size weapons must be touched directly to the five police officers have been indicted in new York on charges of using stun guns to torture but stun gum were not issued to them from the they were not members of Abruzzi in a town of Between Forth Worth and Wichita chief Jim Wade originally resisted younger officers requests for semiautomatic i have 20 years in Law my training and background has been totally toward the six shot he but a distributor sent a Beretta 9mm to the department for a and 15 officers fired rounds from we found it to be totally Wade and in where the Ute water cannons failed to breach a steel plated rooftop officials turned to a More powerful weapon an explosive charge dropped from a the two pounds of blasting material called which is similar to dynamite and used in destroyed the but the resulting fire also claimed the with the death toll at least City officials issued conflicting reports about what set off the inferno that swept through 61 Row mayor Wilson Goode said he would appoint a commission to prepare a report on a police operation that ultimately left at least 200 people uncertainties seemed to mount about the course of the the police Gregore said in an interview on National television that the Blaze started inside the House occupied by the Radical group f we did not create any Sambor to the Best of our the move members had spread flammable material in their compound and in the neighbouring Sambor at first claimed that 23 minutes had elapsed Between the time an explosive device dropped from a helicopter by the police hit the building and flames first appeared from neither Sambor nor other City officials mentioned any such Gap television film showed the bomb followed by flames in the area of which then died minutes flames shot up and firefighters gave two reasons for not moving in immediately fear of being shot at and a wish to Burn an opening in the roof for the police to get May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13