Word: lie-detector
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...eyes, he caresses her right hand, then presses his thumb sharply down on her wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says with a shrug, "but at least I don't have herpes...
...former congressional pages first aired the sex charges on national TV three weeks ago. One, Leroy Williams, 18, of Little Rock, Ark., claimed to have had sex with three Congressmen and to have secured the services of a prostitute for a Senator. But he has failed an FBI lie-detector test. The other page, Jeff Opp, 16, of Denver, said he had heard from friends that perhaps half a dozen Congressmen were sexually abusing male pages, but conceded that none had tried to seduce him. FBI agents who have been questioning other pages-some 100 boys and girls...
...Silverman report suggests that Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman whose body was found in an abandoned car on June 11 in New York City, may have been murdered because of his role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that he had never collected any payoffs from Donovan. He later made two appearances before the grand jury investigating Donovan. On June 2 Silverman subpoenaed John DiGilio, Furino's superior in the Genovese family, to appear before the grand jury as well. The next day Furino vanished. Silverman's report...
...Government to keep its own secrets. Reporters are surprised and incredulous when Reagan tells Barbara Walters that what troubles him most after a year in office is leaks. The press looks the other way when the Pentagon asks senior officials to take humiliating lie-detector tests in a futile effort to stop leaks. Nor does it worry too much about the motives of a leaker, only whether he is peddling trustworthy goods...
...regime in Poland, and the Washington Post has reported on a secret Pentagon study indicating that military costs over the next five years may be $750 billion more than now projected. Furor about this latter leak prompted Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering new ways of dealing with the problem, word was beginning to leak about another sensitive matter: the Administration's decision to sell Taiwan F-5E fighter jets, rather than the more advanced model...