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...impossibilities. But unknown to most Americans, the Administration has proposed a sweeping plan to monitor the public activities of government officials on a scale unprecedented in our history. Last week, the Senate wisely delayed the implementation of the President's controversial directive to subject federal employees to random lie detector tests and lifelong censorship. The rule (which will now go into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared for "sensitive compartmented information." According to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, that category involves 2.5 million individuals, almost half of all federal workers; an additional...
...preventing competitors from stealing proprietary information about product design, manufacturing techniques and marketing strategies. Companies install electronic locks that can be opened only with card-shaped "keys." Sensitive reports are circulated on a strict "need to know" basis. Workers are subjected to intensive background checks that include lie-detector tests and investigations by private detectives...
...would have lethal potential, the shuttle has seven fire extinguishers primed for instant use. However, a quick check showed that the alarm was set off by a sensor in the cargo area's aft bay No. 1 that had a history of being supersensitive, like a home smoke detector that goes off at the merest cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal, and so, with the approval of flight engineers, the crew turned off the trigger-happy sensor, relying for fire warnings on the others aboard. "They handled it with easy skill," said...
...prospect of FBI agents giving lie-detector tests to the CIA director and the White House chief of staff is the stuff of political potboilers. Yet that may be the latest twist in the slithering story of the purloined papers from Jimmy Carter's White House that turned up in the hands of Ronald Reagan's campaign aides. FBI investigators working on the case have suggested that conflicting statements by top Administration officials be resolved by having them roll up their sleeves and submit to polygraphs...
...officials have proposed to the Justice Department that as many as a dozen Reagan aides be given lie-detector tests. To the Administration's chagrin, the FBI request was leaked to the Washington Post last week. This left the White House with a no-win publicity problem. A parade of officials strapping on polygraphs would be a demeaning spectacle, both to voters at home and friends abroad. Any aides that balk, however, would appear to be hiding something. And should the Justice Department now turn down the FBI request and refuse to order the tests, it would smell...