Word: leakproof
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...covert operations or separate them from the agency's intelligence-gathering functions. He has not yielded to Congress's demand for the right to approve covert operations ahead of time. He continues to urge that the six leaky congressional committees dealing with intelligence be consolidated into one leakproof joint committee. In short, he has done hardly anything to compromise the independence or the secrecy of the agency. Said Ford at his press conference: "I will not be a party to the dismantling of the CIA or other intelligence agencies...
...resuming his shuttle diplomacy. "When the two sides - and their American intermediaries - are at odds," explains State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott, "then official sources are more likely to let information out to tell their side of the story." Last week, Talbott noted, "was a classic case of negotiations becoming leakproof as all sides moved closer to agreement." In Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Donald Neff assessed the impending settlement's durability in talks with a hawk-to-dove spectrum of Israeli leaders...
Four years later, South Viet Nam's northern borders are still about as leakproof as Saigon customs. Since mid-March, when the Laotian incursion ended in muffled ignominy, 30,000 North Vietnamese troops have slipped into South Viet Nam's Military Region I, raising NVA troop strength in the five northern provinces to 52,000 troops (plus 24,000 Viet Cong guerrillas). Despite the presence of 180,000 South Vietnamese troops and the ready availability of U.S. airpower, the Communists seem capable of inflicting embarrassing losses in Quang Tri and Thua Thien, the two provinces just south...
...from this unobtrusive vantage point, Clifford is counted one of the five most powerful men in Washington next to the President. With McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, he formed part of the small, leakproof ring of Johnson's cronies, privy to the Government's most hermetic secrets and summoned to advise on questions of great moment...
...first result of injury is to cut cells open, in the case of a stab wound or burn, or to weaken their membranes, in the case of many infections or poisoning by plants or animals. Either way, powerful chemicals that had been locked inside the cells, some in leakproof packages, spill...