Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government embarrassedly ordered the Mutsu to make repairs at sea. Technicians first smeared a paste of rice and boron (an element that absorbs neutrons) over the shields without success. Next polyethylene shields were dispatched from shore that should stop the leak. Meantime, the fishermen vowed to form a barricade of boats to bar the freighter from its home port. Other Japanese cities are no more anxious to receive it. At week's end critics were saying that the Mutsu should become the world's first nuclear Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail ceaselessly without ever putting in to land...
...President Nixon's first Secretary of the Interior. That turned out to be a mistake because Nixon fired him less than a year later. Hickel made the observation, which then seemed presumptuous, that Nixon had cut himself off from the outside world; worse, he allowed that view to leak out to the public. In his current bid for a second term as Alaska's Governor, Hickel, 55, used his dismissal as a point in his favor, but it was not enough to win him victory...
...that once Jaworski got them under the Supreme Court order, they would eventually become public, if only at the cover-up conspiracy trial of six Nixon aides. He knew that the Senate could acquire them for its probable trial of the President, and he feared that their contents might leak out earlier. Release in any of those forms would look involuntary. That would not only destroy Nixon but it could ruin St. Clair professionally, since he could be accused of having withheld evidence and argued falsely in Nixon's behalf...
...about the SALT talks then going on with the Soviet Union. That leak, said the President, "does affect the national security?this particular one. This isn't like the Pentagon papers...
...Watergate coverage, such judgments must be made repeatedly in connection with leaks. As the accompanying cover story points out (see pages 68-73), the reporter's and editor's decisions must depend on many factors-the nature of the leak, its apparent accuracy, on whether it comes from a judicial body or otherwise. He must weigh the possible damage to individual reputations against the public interest. The journalist cannot assert the right to print everything and anything; he must decide each case on its merits, while remaining accountable to his editor and, ultimately, to his audience. The decision...