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...transition is any omen, the Clinton Administration may become the leakiest ever. Cabinet appointments have almost all been so authoritatively predicted in advance that the actual announcements are far overshadowed by the next round of hot tips. On Thursday, Clinton named Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Jesse Brown, a wounded Vietnam veteran, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Their appointments were only the No. 3 news item out of Little Rock that day. No. 1: Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will...
Bonn's embarrassing reputation of being the leakiest capital in Europe inevitably provokes a certain sympathy from security-minded government officials everywhere. West Germany's state secrets are stolen with benumbing regularity by one or another of the country's estimated 16,000 foreign agents, while other bits of classified information have a way of turning up in the headlines of the nation's newspapers and flashy illustrateds. Until last week, however, nobody could recall a case in Bonn-or anywhere else, for that matter-in which a foreign power was thoughtful enough to return...
...asking for a saliva test. Not that the Eastern Champion Browns were bad. They had Jimmy Brown, who is merely the best running back in the history of football. They had Quarterback Frank Ryan, who threw 25 touchdown passes this year. But they also had the N.F.L.'s leakiest defense, by the margin of 237 yds. and 20 first downs. The experts figured that was a dainty dish to set before the Western Champion Colts, with the strongest offense (428 points) and the stingiest defense (225 points) in pro football. What's more, the East had won only...
...effective for the Crimson to win, but ties of 0-0 and 3-3 make this a prime consideration. Although the attack seemed to have gained new sparkle in the Princeton and Brown victories, Eli partisans have noted that the Crimson's greatest offensive gains have come against the leakiest defenses in the League...
...National Football League Playoff Bowl (CBS, starts at 2 p.m.). In the leakiest bowl of all, the second-place clubs of the eastern and western divisions - the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions - grunt it out in Miami...