Word: breach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name: Winston Churchill, 39, grandson of Britain's wartime Prime Minister. Since young Winston at the time was the Conservative Party's junior shadow defense minister, the disclosure raised questions. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher squelched them by informing the Commons: "I am satisfied there has been no breach of security in the public service." Was Churchill's political career imperiled? Said another M.P.: "If the criterion for this place is that you haven't committed any infidelity, then there would be a hell of a lot of by-elections...
...violence. Such violence broke out from Turkey to India, most seriously in Pakistan, where the first American blood was shed. And by this time Iran's fire-eating Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had become so extreme, so demagogic, so streaked with irrationality that serious diplomats wondered how the breach could be repaired. "This is not a struggle between the United States and Iran," Khomeini declared. "It is a struggle between Islam and the infidels." He repeatedly threatened that the 49 American hostages held in the captured U.S. embassy in Tehran would be tried as spies, and possibly executed...
...plans certainly can be criticized on one point: with the demonstrators roaming outside the walls, U.S. personnel should have been able to destroy all documents. The Marine guards held off the mob long enough to enable officials to shred important classified files and smash encoding equipment. No serious security breach is believed to have occurred. But embarrassing documents did fall into the hands of the invaders, and they have been successfully used to inflame mobs in Iran...
...Faculty's classic tendency to cast suspicion on immoderate change contributed to its reluctance to move quickly on the merger. Co-residency struck some as an alarming and sudden breach with the past. Peterson and his fellow faculty members, he explains, "philosophically resisted these great shifts in tide...
...probably wind up as a scriptwriter might have composed it. One day after his arrest, by pure coincidence, the California Supreme Court let stand a San Diego appellate court's ruling that police use of such devices as the Bushnell Spacemaster to gather evidence is unconstitutional, an Orwellian breach of a citizen's right to privacy. Thus Halvonik and his wife could be acquitted, leaving him free either to stay on the bench or to return to private practice and defend exactly the kind of case in which he is now so messily involved...