Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethics in Government Act's requirement that a special prosecutor be named when a high federal official is suspected of a crime. Moreover, the Attorney General last week abolished a set of guidelines adopted by the Carter Administration to limit Government lawsuits against "whistleblowers," federal employees who leak confidential Government information. Though it is still too early to tell how vigorously the Government will pursue leakers, civil libertarians are already up in arms...
Neither Toland nor Buildings and Grounds (B&G) administrators explained how the leak escalated, eventually filling the building and chasing early morning swimmers into Holyoke Street, some gasping for air and doubled over in pain...
...maintenance employee familiar with the building said this week that the worker replacing the tank had told him that "the line was shot" before the leak occurred Monday and that reports of the deterioration to supervisors had not resulted in any action...
...leak began sometime before 10 a.m., and the chlorine gas quickly drifted from the basement tank area up to the pool level and throughout...
Minutes later, three Cambridge fire companies arrived with police and other rescue experts. Firefighter Anthony Iantosca finally stopped the leak at about 11 a.m., after police had sealed off the area and evacuated adjacent Lowell House...