Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rudy Sibilio, the assistant superintendent of state office buildings, insisted it had nothing to do with Clapp's flap...
Vice President George Bush has kept quiet since Election Day, four weeks ago, avoiding any public comment on the arms-hostages-contra flap. Last Friday he broke his silence in a 45-minute telephone interview from his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., with Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and White House Correspondent Barrett Seaman...
...Reagan Administration copes with its burgeoning scandal, pundits are + facing a minor but nonetheless sticky problem of their own: what to call it. Ever since Watergate, the suffix -gate has been used to label virtually any hint of governmental wrongdoing (from the Koreagate bribery scandal to Lancegate, the flap over President Carter's former Budget Director). News of secret U.S. arms shipments to Iran was initially dubbed, unsurprisingly, Irangate. But as the scandal has broadened, the nicknames have multiplied: Armsgate, Contragate, Budgate (for McFarlane), Northgate (for Oliver...
Teicher, who speaks fluent Hebrew, caused another flap five years ago when he tried to publish a fictionalized account of Israel's nuclear secrets. The manuscript was confiscated by the Israeli military censor, and Teicher did not seek to publish it elsewhere...
...government response has served mainly to renew debate over the tough British laws that allow authorities to ban publication of almost any material deemed harmful to national security interests. Of course, the flap has focused attention on Wright's accusations. After the press was barred from reporting the book's charges, Labor M.P. Dale Campbell-Savours used his parliamentary privilege to state the charges before the House of Commons, which the press reported...