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state Houston cops adopting arsenal of new weapons United Press International HOUSTON — The police de partment is trying to change its image by adapting an arsenal of non-lethal weapons including a sidearm that shoots a dart cap able of neutralizing a suspect with an electric charge. “Houston once was the kind of town where you didn’t dare say anything wrong to a police officer,” Sgt. J.H. Olszewski WITH THIS COUPON BUY ONE Taco BellGrande AND GET AN Enchirito AT HALF PRICE THIS COUPON MUST BE PRESENTED WHEN ORDERING. LIMIT: One coupon per visit. Not good with any other offer. Good Only At Archie’s Taco Bells Offer Good 11 A.M.-11 P.M. Only — Expires July 20, 1982 TRCOi&iBEIiIi c 1982 Taco Bell Printed in U.S.A. ■I I I I I I I I I I said. “But today we are more concerned with what the public wants. We probably are becom ing one of the more innovative police departments in looking into alternative weapons.” The department already has adopted capture nets, leg grab bers and a variety of chemical gasses. City council also has autho rized purchase of the TASER, a 9-inch, 1.5-pound hybrid of a pistol, dart-gun and flashlight that delivers a low-amp, 50,000- volt charge capable of bringing a suspect to his knees. The TASER works by firing two darts, each trailing a wire, into a suspect. The wires then conduct the charge into the sus pect’s nervous system, incapaci tating him “usually long enough to put the handcuffs on,” says SWAT team Sgt. J.C. Linney. Mysterious Marfa lights baffle residents, scientists United Pi OUSTO eons he;i ioiey Mo nsplanted -old mat ute annoii Cooley, jc Texas Mt rDr. Ban |wly-appro' rin-A, whi y’s mech; issue, in t keswomai Luke’s E d. The surge Tuesday Night Your Danskin Headquarters 779-6718 Manor East Mall United Press International MARFA — Lights that zoom about at dusk near this south west Texas town have raised a lot of questions, but no one seems to be able to come up with any answers. Some scientists say they might be car headlights that have traveled some distance through a phenomenon known as “atmospheric tunneling.” But the lights were seen by cowboys 100 years ago. Observers report the lights whiz around at high speed and become brighter and dimmer. They are seen year-round. Another theory is that the lights are reflections from mica deposits, but proponents of that theory have yet to explain why those reflections move about. Yet another theory is that the lights are small discharges of sta tic electricity, but no one knows why that would occur near Mar fa and not in any other location. Julia Plumbley, whose father saw the lights 99 years ago when he was a cowpuncher on the Trans-Pecos Trail, said the lights are usually dim and ethereal. Two geologists who in 1969 spent several months surveying uranium deposits around Marfa said they once came within ab out 100 feet of the lights. His companion, Wright, told him to run “I said, ‘Seeing howl thing could go, wecan'tnitj it,”’ he said. p,m. Sunday' Tonor heart, beating |est at 1:23 id. The hospi The men said the lights moved over some horses at what seemed like 150 to 200 mph, spooking the animals. “We just sat there andi so stupid. It had intelligem finitely mv entire I never felt sos Kinney sal T hen one light stopped in the middle of the road and hovered 100 feet in front of the car, said Pat Kinney. H 111. tie, Mnnevsj|; 1 X Li ' Elton Miles, a retiredliB professor whose book'TilB .. . , p the Big Bend” has a chapitB^gpjjvjQ the lights, says he has seeiiB rmer a( j m j about 10 times. 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