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Last week, as Schnick was about to undergo a lie-detector test, he broke down and confessed that he had committed the murders and tried to frame his dead nephew. Appearing in court wearing bib overalls and a white T shirt, he was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Though authorities suspect that Schnick may have killed to benefit from wills and insurance policies, Sheriff Frager still feels there is some mystery involved. "I don't know what was in the man's mind," he says. "There's always a possibility we'll never know...
LaLonde said that when that social worker's report was sent to Essex County District Attorney Kevin Burke, the resulting investigation included a lie-detector test but no prosecution resulted. LaLonde said therefore he should be considered cleared but said he would consider taking another lie detector test...
CHARGES OF RACISM, SEXISM AND homophobia aside, the main dispute between the boycotters and the company is over Coors' labor practices. The AFL-CIO says its strike against Coors began over human dignity issues, such as forced lie-detector tests and illegal search and seizure. But William Coors stridently denies that the lie detector tests were at issue in the strike, and claims that there have only been four cases of search and seizure over the past fifteen years, all of which involved alleged drug...
...take 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...
...matches," 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...