Drug-dart Guns to Deal with Rioters

from an American reader One of the things exercising the imagination of the American establishment just now is how to deal with the growing opposition in U.S. cities from Black Power and anti-war movements. A certain Dr. James Connor, of Emory University, Altanta, believes that he has the answer to what the newspapers here call the growing anarchy of the cities. The answer of this resourceful defender of the American way of life is the use of dart guns, loaded with tranquilliser drugs. Doctor Conner has tried his idea out on medical students. With a modification of the dart-gun used by big-game hunters to capture animals for zoos fan element of unconscious humour can be discounted) he fired projectiles containing three c.c.s of a new drug - Cl 581. This has the effect of rapidly subduing a violent person and sending him into a comatose stupor for half an hour or more. Doctor Conner claims that the only after-effect that the students felt was the feeling of a hangover. He has also stated that he is experimenting with a quick-acting form of morphine. I have been unable to verify a rumour that Mr. Conner is to sign a contract with the American Smbassy in London to supply these darts for the next demonstration in Grosvenor Square.