Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helen Garten said that although the carpeting in her Story Hall room was slightly damaged, the leak was relatively minor...
Finley's availability contrasts with the elusiveness of "Sore Throat," the man who claims to be a former high-ranking employee of the American Medical Association, and whose revelations have triggered congressional inquiries into the A.M.A. This week Washington Correspondent Marguerite Michaels received Sore Throat's latest leak (see MEDICINE). The only problem was that the leak came in a series of brief takes, as Sore Throat telephoned Michaels from phone booths. "He refused to leave numbers where I could reach him, and he wasn't very good at calling at set times," she reports. After missing...
Last week the A.M.A. moved on its own to plug the leak. It hired a private security firm and gave lie detector tests to at least four employees. But even as the polygraph tests were being administered, Sore Throat was passing along to TIME copies of memoranda showing how the A.M.A.'s Washington lobbyists requested funds for politicians from AMPAC, the organization's political action committee. He also explained how the money made its way circuitously from Chicago to the coffers of those Congressmen whose favor the A.M.A., which cannot legally make direct political contributions, is interested...
...press charges and disclosures about its activities, have seriously damaged the agency's effectiveness. Morale has dropped among senior staffers, who bitterly claim they are the victims of a post-Watergate witch hunt. Old allies abroad are wary about cooperating with the CIA, fearing that their secrets will leak, or sources be compromised. U.S. intelligence operations against the Soviet Union have been harmed. Says one White House aide: "We're all paying a price...
...Suzette Marie Creppel, 17, would eventually have to undergo open-heart surgery to correct an atrial septal defect-a hole in the wall separating the two upper chambers of her heart. But Drs. Terry King and Noel Mills of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital decided to try to plug the leak with two tiny, round patches-and without surgery...