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Whatever else, Reagan's self-control is phenomenal. One solid word to any of those "confidants" and the leak would begin, the mystique would vanish. The press and public would go back to cataloguing all the dumb things he says about Nicaragua. As of now, the largest political story of the summer is still will he or won't he run. The White House gets the question a dozen or more times a day, sometimes at the strangest moments. Recently Mrs. Reagan held a press conference on her Foster Grandparent program. Other subjects were ruled out. Reporters could...
...time when President Reagan is fighting with Congress over his record military budget, whistle blowers in the Pentagon are continuing to sound alarms about the wasteful way past funds have been spent. Last fall a leaked report, prepared by Air Force auditors at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, showed astounding increases in the price of aircraft engine parts made by Pratt & Whitney: a turbine air seal for an F-111 fighter-bomber, for example, soared from $16 to $3,033.82 in one year. These findings touched off a broader study by the Pentagon's inspector general...
...issue came to a head early last year, when Fairchild and Intel Corp., another local chipmaker, reported two major leaks in as many months. At the Fairchild plant in San Jose, workers discovered that a faulty storage tank had discharged some 13,000 gal. of a mildly carcinogenic solvent called TCA into the underground water supply. A few weeks later, Intel announced that a concrete vault had leaked, and that traces of a strong carcinogen, TCE, had turned up in a farmer's well near by. Fairchild has spent $10 million cleaning up its spill, and the company steadfastly...
...world at this time. The thing is that we cannot meet in private. That is what all of us hanker after: to meet and have a good talk in private without the world press being there. But if two or three of us were to talk together it would leak out, and there would be some false significance attached to it. I think it is a great pity...
...from the mark. Tragically, though, American policy may have been what pushed the Sandinistas into the Soviet camp. When he came to power, Reagan cut off all aid to Nicaragua, which was forced to turn elsewhere--i.e. to the Soviet Union--for economic assistance. Then word began to leak out that the Administration had okayed CIA plans to overthrow the fledgling regime. The Sandinistas initiated a significant military build-up and restricted human rights in Nicaragua. A vicious circle evolved...