Word: leake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chlorine Leak...
...years ago a leaking chlorine pipe caused the IAB to be evacuated, and seven people were hospitalized overnight. Cambridge firemen and police shut off the leak and evacuated both the IAB and Lowell House...
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...
Baker, realizing early on that polygraphs were a possibility, asked White House Counsel Fred Fielding to determine if there are any legal obstacles to their use on senior staff members. Fielding concluded that there were none. Baker subsequently made it clear last week, by letting the word leak out through associates, that he was willing, even eager, to undergo the test. He has already been interviewed by the FBI twice, most recently for 90 minutes in his West Wing office two weeks ago. Baker is understood to have given the FBI his full recollection of the time and place that...
...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...