Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the investigation jointly conducted by the AFL-CIO and the Salvadoran government, the killers were José Dimas Valle Acevedo, 35, and Santiago Gómez González, 32, ex-corporals in El Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming...
...witnesses of the incident. However, before appearing, he was allowed to dye his red hair black, cut it and shave off his mustache. Although nobody recognized him in the lineup, he was later identified by the killers. López Sibrian was also ordered to undergo a lie-detector test, and failed...
...just about anything--footsteps, sneezes, running water, sunrise. The one thing these smoke alarms don't seem sensitive to, oddly enough, is fire. One student tells of accidentally failing to open his fireplace flue, seeing his room fill up with smoke, and never hearing a peep out of his detector...
...Thursday, the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a false alarm at Lowell House caused by an overly sensitive smoke detector...
Abernathy said Harvard's is an electrically powered detector system, which is slower to install, but more reliable than the battery-operated system required under minimum city standards...