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...simple self-defense, law enforcers are also turning to heavier and more sophisticated artillery, ratcheting up the arms race another notch. "The police are definitely outgunned in this country," asserts Dewey Stokes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. A cop armed with the six- shot .38-cal. service revolver that has been standard for decades has little chance in a shootout with a criminal wielding, say, a converted Colt ; AR-15 capable of firing 900 rounds a minute; if not hit in the first fusillade, the policeman is likely to be shot while reloading. Out of that fear...
What better way to police a company than to sign up a former top cop? Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, which agreed last month to settle criminal- fraud charges, plans to hire a new chairman for its holding company. Drexel's choice to succeed Robert Linton: John Shad, the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Drexel is also recruiting trade consultant Roderick Hills, another former SEC chief, to serve on the firm's board. Neither had formally accepted by week...
...implausible. What interests writer John Patrick Shanley, who won an Academy Award last year for Moonstruck, is the infinite and usually inexplicable capacity of ordinary people to turn flaky without warning or change of expression. The prime example here is Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), a former New York City cop and now a fireman. As Starkey, Kline has the best entrance in recent movie memory: bursting spectacularly out of a burning building, cradling the child he has rescued in his arms, he collapses to the sidewalk and calls for a cup of coffee, "preferably espresso...
Besides being brave, Nick is something of an ironist. This quality, if nothing else, is a sign of intelligence. Before taking up fire fighting, Nick was a cop falsely tainted by corruption. Now the very people who secretly profited by victimizing him -- the crooked, volcanic mayor (Rod Steiger) and the bland, bureaucratic police commissioner (Harvey Keitel) -- need him to lead the hunt for a maniacal killer...
...COVER GIRL AND THE COP (NBC, Jan. 16, 9 p.m. EST). A streetwise cop is assigned to guard a frivolous actress-model, witness to a murder. Dinah Manoff and Julia Duffy, two of the tube's slyest comedians, play the odd- couple title characters in this TV movie...