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...accurately inform the country. It is up to the administration, through careful cooperation with the press to keep national security interests intact. Otherwise, the best we can hope for is that the next time the President appears on national television, he too will be wearing a lie detector...
...four of the ten ground-level entrances of the building, and banned sightseers from the immediate vicinity of the congressional chambers. Soon staffers will need photo identification passes, and tourists will be obliged to remove their overcoats for a spot check and marched through a sophisticated metal detector. Outside, parking-lot traffic may be rerouted to thwart car bombers, like the one who destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut...
...another incident yesterday, firefighters responded to a false alarm at Adams. A maintenance worker who refused to be identified speculated that fumes from a kitchen exhaust fan could have triggered a smoke detector...
...pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector, something to let low-energy particles through...
...payroll," said Prosecutor Laura Brevetti in her opening statement, "is the $64,000 question" in the Sanzo-Petito trial. Her key witness: a pseudonymous "Mr. J.H.," who has been a federal informer since 1973 and who, unlike most such federal witnesses, took and passed an FBI lie detector test administered two weeks...