Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspect did know he was being tailed. "They apparently weren't very good drivers," he observed. "I caused them to have a minor accident." Williams characterized his twelve hours of questioning at Atlanta FBI headquarters as "accusations and threats the whole time." He submitted to three lie-detector tests and said he was told that "all my answers were deceptive." This, he explained, might be attributed to his nervousness. Other evidence was sought after authorities obtained a search warrant for Williams' home. They confiscated a yellow blanket, purple robe, dog hairs and fibers from a carpet and bedspread...
...entrance to the gate, several more people recognize Nader and there are more whispers. Nader looks straight ahead and walks through the metal detector. It seems strange watching Ralph Nader walk through a metal detector, like seeing the Pope having his fingerprints taken. Ralph Nader hijack an airplane? The idea is hard to swallow...
...investigators have also given lie detector tests to parents and begun helicopter surveillance over remote areas of the city's south side. Retired police officers have been questioning drunks drying out in county and city jails. Information is being fed into a computer to determine any common threads of evidence-a 'blue car, say, or a bearded stranger in a neighborhood. Authorities even called in a psychic from New Jersey. Says Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, who is black and worried himself about his ten-year-old twins: "You usually have an eyewitness, or a confession...
...story building after the fire was put out, he found trays and dishes still in the halls. A small point, perhaps, but, concluded Hilliard, "Cline wasn't doing his job, or he wasn't telling the truth." Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual act on a sofa in the eighth-floor elevator lobby when his marijuana cigarette accidentally ignited window draperies. He knew his partner only...
...smoke detector, apparently set off by paint fumes in the Widener Library staff room, yesterday caused the library to be evacuated for fifteen minutes, William Osborn, Evening Security Supervisor of the library, said yesterday...