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am orders polygraph tests
WASHINGTON In the wake of spy
scandals, President Reagan has ordered
that lie' detector tests be given to
government employees, ranging all the
way up to Cabinet secretaries, with
access to highly secret information.
Even as the president's action
taken Nov. 1 but kept secret was
disclosed Wednesday, Secretary of State
George Shultz was described as being
opposed to using lie detectors, whose
reliability has been questioned and are
viewed by some as an invasion of
privacy.
Would Shultz submit to a lie detec
tor test? "I can't answer," said State
Department spokesman Charles Kea-
man. "I don't know."
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said he did not know how
many people would be required to take
the tests, but the Los Angeles Times,
which first revealed Reagan's decision,
said that up to 10,000 people could be
affected, including 4,000 people at the
State Department.
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., de
nounced Reagan's "sudden secret
order" as "contrary to the cautious
approach to polygraph tests that eve
rybody else has taken in both houses of
congress and at the Department of
Defense."
Speakes said the tests "will be app
lied to a selective number of officials
who have highest levels of access to
classified information, especially com
munications security and other com
partmentalized information.
"The test will be mandatory for peo
ple who have to obtain clearances for
such sensitive information," Speakes
said. Thus, it would include govern
ment contractors as well as employees.
In 1983, Reagan proposed a huge
expansion of the use of lie detectors
which, if fully implemented, would
have affected more than 3.7 million
federal and contract employees, accord
ing to estimates by the General
Accounting Office.
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Atomic Bulletin has 40th anniversary
CHICAGO Like Dr. Frankenstein,
the scientists who brought the atomic
bomb into existence watched with hor
ror as their creation made its way into
the world.
Hoping to alert the public to the
dangers they had unleashed, they
founded the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, a Chicago-based magazine
that celebrates its 40th anniversary
this week. A symposium featuring sev
eral past and present contributors is
planned for today at the University of
Chicago, where Bulletin offices are
located.
The mid-1940s were "an incredible
time, a heady time for science," said
Harrison Brown, a chemist and physi
cist who worked on the Manhattan Pro
ject, helped found the Bulletin and now
serves a3 editor-in-chief.
"After the destruction the bomb
caused (in Japan) and the impression
it made on this nation, we believed
arms control was a goal that was attain
able within 10 years," Brown said by
telephone from his home in Albuquer
que, N.M.
"There was no arms race then, and
our vision turned out to be far from the
truths of today. But the goal has re
mained the same to keep the scien
tists and the citizens of this world
informed about the nuclear debate in
terms that can be understood."
The bulletin's most enduring sym
bol, the "Doomsday Clock," first
appeared in 1947 at the suggestion of
physicist Edward Teller, who later re
signed from the magazine.
The .clock was set then at 11:53,
reflecting an estimate by the journal's
editors and an international board of
scientists including 17 Nobel Prize
winners of the world's proximity to
the final midnight of nuclear destruc
tion. After the United States and the
Soviet Union signed the Partial Test
Ban Treaty in 1963, the clock was
pushed back to 11:48.
It's been moved as far forward as
1 1:57 the first time in 1949, after the
first Soviet bomb blast, and again in
1983, after U.S.-Soviet arms-control
talks were suspended. It remains at
11:57 today.
Fake diploma business on the rise
WASHINGTON - Rep. Claude
Pepper's colleagues are calling him
"Dr. Pepper" nowadays.
To dramatize the flourishing diploma
mill racket, the 85-year-old Florida
Democrat disclosed Wednesday that he
received a phony Ph.D. in psychology
from a non-existent Los Angeles uni
versity last week in exchange for four
short book reports and payment of
$1,810.
At a hearing by the House Select
Committee on Aging, Pepper announced
what he called the "truly disturbing"
results of an investigation into a boom
ing industry in bogus academic degrees,
medical licenses, job resumes and other
professional credentials.
"We found that the promotion and
purchase of academic degrees in a
fraudulent fashion is widespread and
increasing," Pepper said of the inquiry
by his subcommittee on health and
long-term care. "About 500,000 Ameri
cans have secured and many are
employed on the basis of creden
tials they purchased but did not earn."
Fees range up to $28,000 for a medi
cal degree complete with transcript,
diploma, letters of recommendation
and an employment verification ser
vice, Pepper said. He estimated that
10,000 physicians nationwide are prac
ticing with falsified or questionable
credentials, preying most frequently on
the elderly.
To dramatize how easily an aca
demic degree can be purchased,
Pepper's subcommittee staff, working
with Postal Service inspectors, obtained
a Ph.D. in psychology in the mail from
Union University in Los Angeles for
"CD. Pepper" of Burke Va., a Washing
ton suburb, in just nine months.
Former Lincoln man working
for Israeli-Palestinian peace
LINCOLN Virgil Falloon is a
citizen of the world who obviously
believes one person can make a
difference.
Since August, the former Lincoln
man has been executive director of at
Washington-based citizens' organiza
tion that is promoting peace in the
Mideast by seeking a settlement
between Israel and the Palestinians.
SEARCH for Justice and Equality
in Palestine-Israel hopes to influence
adoption of what it says would be a
more even-handed American policy
that supports a settlement "on the
basis of the inalienable rights of both
peoples."
The American people now receive a
one-sided view of the dispute, Falloon
said.
"The pro-Israeli bias is so strong
that it ultimately makes a peaceful
solution to the conflict almost impos
sible. It is not in the interests of the
United States not to recognize that
the Palestinians have human rights.
"Until the United States is willing
to come forward and recognize that
injustices are being done, it will
never be involved in the peace
process."
SEARCH is not anti-israeli, Falloon
is quick to point out
It was founded by a Jew, and its
membership is one-third Jewish, one
third Arab and one-third other
Americans.
"We want justice and equality for
both peoples, and we want to be sure
the American people hear both sides
of the story," he said.
Falloon began to identify with the
world outside Nebraska and out
side the United States when, as a
youth, he went to northern Kenya in
1972 to do volunteer work for a mis
sion. Soon he was helping build an
airstrip in southern Sudan.
Questions began to form in his
head.
How could a population be starving
to death in a country rich in agricul
tural resources? Why did corporations
come in to pump out oil and plant
export crops in a country that could
be feeding its own starving people?
Why did distribution of American
Food for Peace commodities fail to
stop the starvation?
The young Lincoln man returned to
the United States with a sense of
"belonging to the world." Filled with
"lots of questions," he sought to
expand his global perspective by
majoring in history and learning
Arabic at Georgetown University.
During his junior year," he went
abroad to Cairo where he encoun
tered his first Russians, whom Presi
dent Anwar Sadat was in the process
of systematically expelling from
Egypt.
"That totally destroyed my percep
tion of Russia as just the Big Bear of
communism. My fears were broken
down by personal contact. They were
people, and they were talking about
peace, too."
Falloon completed his work at
Georgetown, and then earned a law
degree at the University of Nebraska
with an eye toward "acquiring a legal
background which I could combine
with my Mideast background to be
most effective in working for causes I
believed to be legitimate and just."
Back in the Mideast again in 1982
as a legal research volunteer for Law
in the Service of Man, the West Bank
affiliate of the International Commis
sion of Jurists in Geneva, Falloon
lived at the center of the conflict,
along the West Bank of the Jordan
River between Israel and Jordan.
His job: 'To look at the legal sys
tem which exists under the Israeli
military occupation and to see that
the rule of law was being followed."
After the year's assignment, Fal
. loon and his wife stayed for another
year working with Quakers in the
West Bank. Falloon' s wife taught at a
private school for girls, and he
became its building and grounds
superintendent.
After their return to the United
States, the offer came from SEARCH.
"I really believe it's a movement, a
coalition, that could be very influen
tial in the next five years or so," Fal
loon said.
"We want to get the Palestinians
and the Israelis talking. We would
never advocate a particular political
solution; We just want to encourage
the dialogue."
Falloon said he is encouraged by
the sudden American awareness and
concern for the plight of blacks in
South Africa.
"I hope one day that the Israeli
Palestinian dilemma is raised to that
level. Hopefully before more radical
elements are allowed to engage
themselves in armed conflict which,
we fear, could ultimately escalate to
the use of nuclear weapons."
Centers will aid distressed farmers
LINCOLN - Gov. Kob Kerrey on Wednesday annexed erection cf six
.-'assistance centers across Nebraska for financially strewed Lrmcrs and
ranchers, bat he cautioned that it won't provide a "r.::.:e:J section" to
farm problems. ' : . . t .
The Ag Action Centers, partly financed by a $1 million cmr.t from the
U.S. Department of Labor, will provide coenseHng'and job-training servi
ces' for victims of the agricultural recession, Kerrey said at, a news
conference at the Governor's Mansion.
' The centers will be located in Beatrice, Fremont, Grand Island, Norfolk,
North Fktte and Sccttsbluit ' , J
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the lecs cfalcvod cr.e, Kerrey said fanners who have lost their land or are
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Opposition forms united ticlce
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Blood test helps predict AIDS virus
EOoTOI - A UocJ test can rev; :J vh;thcr p-1"! ' 3fc -sades
hate tecc-e swollen tccee cf t).2 AID3 virus tn L!.;!y U develop
fall-tto ce3 cf the dlsesre v.itL'i a fov ncrtfj, rnrjrhers say.
liny people infected with the AIDS iru3 hive rcre.ter.tly swollen
lymph nodes, but none cf the overwhelming ir.fectLru th-t occur in
fiiU-Seded cases cf acquired iir.mune deficiency s;rJ;;;r,ie. The latest
research shows that when these people's blood ceil3 step r.iaking inter
feron, they are likely to fall ill with the lethal dlseese, which usually kills
its victims within a year.
Swollen lymph nodes caused by the AIDS virus are a key symptom of a
condition known as AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Other signs may
include weight loss, fever, night sweats, persistent diarrhea and fatigue.
Hacker, 15, arrested in scam
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entering a national computer network and trj'ir to :in access to
financial institutions and universities, police szii Tucei:.
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