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...drug tests, and now Reagan wants the federal government--the nation's largest employer--to get into the act. Attorney General Edwin Meese III sees nothing wrong with such testing. And Secretary of State George Shultz, who last year said he would resign if forced to take a lie-detector test, also had no qualms about taking a drug test...
...drug testing has become a new campaign fad. In Kentucky, Republican Congressional Candidate Jim Polley challenged Incumbent Chris Perkins to meet him at a hospital for a urinating match. Perkins did not show up, but Polley gave his sample anyway. Perkins facetiously countered with a challenge to take lie-detector tests, AIDS tests and chest X rays. Other candidates publicly joining in include Republican Congressman Thomas Kindness of Ohio, who is running against Senator John Glenn, and Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois...
...center of the cloud. It was also clear that there was systematic motion inside. Just as a train whistle is higher in pitch as it approaches than when it recedes, radio waves also vary in frequency according to direction of motion. Using the radio telescope like a police-radar detector, the astronomers measured the movement within the cloud. "We didn't detect any motion in the outer, cooler regions," reports Wilking. "It was as we probed deeper and deeper that we began to see evidence of gas falling inward...
...security directive on combatting espionage. In it, he called for widespread polygraph testing to cut down on the flow of sensitive information into the hands of enemy agents and enemy journalists. The directive made all Federal employees with access to such information, including Cabinet officials, subject to random lie-detector testing. After the directive was made public, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said that taking the test "wouldn't bother me a bit." But Secretary of State Shultz would have none of it. "The day in this Government I am told that I'm not trusted...
...understand why, for instance, a man with a proven sensitivity to such matters as George Shultz sees nothing wrong with such testing. Why is being asked to submit to a urinalysis any less noxious, any less a questioning of his integrity, then being asked to take a lie-detector test...