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After Sword admitted his guilt, Judge ReginaQuinlan of Middlesex Superior Court asked him aseries of questions to ascertain whether or notSword understood the implications of his plea, andwhether he had been coerced into changing hisplea...
...servicing was done by G.I.G.N. men wearing -- in an ironic reversal of how the hijack had started in Algiers -- airport staff uniforms. The troopers were able to ascertain that the plane's doors were not blocked or booby- trapped. According to some accounts, the policemen also slipped tiny eavesdropping devices into the aircraft. Along with external surveillance devices -- infrared-vision equipment and "cannon" microphones trained on the windows and fuselage -- the bugs would have allowed the gendarmes to follow the hijackers' movements inside the aircraft...
...police were unable to ascertain the exact date of the break-in, a report indicating only that it occurred sometime between November...
Therefore, The Crimson should try to ascertain that a message posted on the Internet was in fact written by the person whose name appears as its author...
Editors later expanded the assignment, which was initially designed to ascertain how easy it is to gain access to clubs and bars with fake IDs, to include liquor stores, he said...