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...with his travels. The Secretary firmly told the President in private that he opposed a national security directive, signed by Reagan on Nov. 1, authorizing lie-detector tests for thousands of Government employees and private contractors who handle sensitive information. Questioned by reporters, Shultz said that he considers polygraph testing ineffective, that it often implicates innocent people and that trained spies can easily avoid detection. Asked whether he would ever take such a test, the Secretary replied, "Once." Face reddening, he added, "The minute in this Government that I am not trusted is the day that I leave...
Some Administration officials sniped at the usually circumspect Shultz for taking his defiance public and noted that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has agreed to take a polygraph test. But the White House hastened to head off a confrontation, explaining that the President's directive allows department heads to decide which of their employees must undergo lie-detector tests, and insisting that the plan was aimed at curbing espionage, not--as some critics suspect--unauthorized leaks to the press. Reagan told reporters at week's end that Shultz had been mollified and that the Secretary would not be asked to take...
White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the polygraph questions will concern security, not an individual's personal life. Speakes denied that the stepped-up use of lie detectors is directly related to the spate of spy arrests this year. Those cases caused enough alarm about national security, however, that criticism of Reagan's latest resort to the machine has been notably muted...
...Drexel's computerization, however, come from the humanities, not the sciences. English Professor Valarie Arms, who has developed software to coax better writing out of fledgling scientists, reports that students in every subject are expressing themselves with more clarity and coherence. Psychologist Doug Chute uses the Mac to replace polygraph machines and other behavioral lab paraphernalia. No longer dependent on limited laboratory space and equipment, he can now assign individual research projects to 1,200 introductory-psych students a year. History Professor Eric Brose discovered that by displaying on a Mac the political boundaries and disarmament terms established...
...took the random examinations were applying for Government jobs, some held Government posts. Most of those tested had been cleared for sensitive security access through normal checks. In one chilling incident, a U.S. citizen seeking top-secret clearance was found dead in his car shortly after he failed a polygraph test. National Security Agency investigators later learned that he had been spying for the Soviet Union. Said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who wants to broaden the Government's authority to test employees: "If (John) Walker had known of the possibility of random polygraph tests, I'm certain he would...