Word: leakings
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...stepped out to pick up the newspaper and detected a strong odor that she compared to Kitty Litter. "It just hit me in the face," said Cyrus. "I knew it was coming from Carbide." It was not until 36 min. after plant operators discovered the leak that the local volunteer fire chief sounded a siren to warn the community about the cloud of toxic chemical gas. The emergency caused 135 people to seek hospital treatment for shortness of breath, a burning in the eyes and throat, and vomiting...
...rivalries that lasted right up to the President's departure for his first meeting with a Soviet leader and threatened to undermine his negotiating credibility. Reagan was furious when he learned that a letter from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urging him to hang tough on arms control, had been leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post. The President's mood did not improve after an unidentified White House official accommodated newsmen by replying to a question as to whether the leak was an attempt to sabotage the U.S. bargaining stance: "Sure...
...leaked the letter? Early speculation centered on Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and the Administration's most ardent critic of arms control. Perle flatly denied that he was the source of the leak. Defense Department officials pointed out that the leaked letter bore Weinberger's nickname signature "Cap," while the copies distributed to Perle and others in the Pentagon were unsigned: the implication was that it was leaked after receipt elsewhere in the Government. A fine point, perhaps, but by week's end Washington insiders were convinced that other players had more motive for mischief...
While the leak was tame by Washington standards, failure to classify the letter made it all the easier for editors of the two papers to justify its publication. Indeed, some observers speculated that Weinberger himself wanted his missive made public, particularly since so many copies were dispatched around the Government. Said Thomas Longstreth, associate director of the privately funded Arms Control Association: "By sending it unclassified, Weinberger intended it to be leaked." The Secretary denies any such purpose. "I can't recall that I've ever classified a letter I've given the President," he told TIME last week...
Ever since a leak of deadly methyl isocyanate at its plant in Bhopal, India, killed 2,500 people and injured more than 20,000 in December 1984, Union Carbide has been locked in one battle after another. Even as it faces up to $100 billion in lawsuits filed on behalf of the Bhopal victims, the Danbury Conn.-based firm (1984 sales: $9.5 billion) is struggling to fend off a hostile takeover by GAF (1984 sales: $731 million), a manufacturer of building and chemical products. In a defensive move, Carbide decided last week to sell its consumer businesses for some...