Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader, written by Times Editor William Rees-Mogg, gave full credit to the journalists who originally made crucial disclosures. But now, Rees-Mogg contended, the televised Senate hearings, the leak-prone grand jury investigation and the publication of assorted prejudicial statements have pulverized due process. He said, in effect, that Nixon is being convicted in a kangaroo court of public opinion...
...open his own machine shop. After he returned from World War II to find his shop had fallen $10,000 in debt, he slowly began to work his way out. One day, a customer brought in an aerosol spray can with an expensive but unreliable valve that had leaked. Abplanalp began thinking of ways to solve the problem, and eventually designed a new, less leak-prone valve...
TIME has learned that one member of the plumber team, David Young, formerly of Henry Kissinger's national security staff, has sought immunity. He has been granted it by the prosecutors and is expected to tell whatever he knows about any leak-plugging operations that are related to the obstruction of the Watergate investigations. That
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, then under way in Helsinki. When the U.S. later tried to take a stiffer approach, the Soviets, believing that the Beecher article outlined the real fallback position, resisted. The incident brought CIA polygraph experts to the State Department to search for the source of the leak (it is not known whether he was found). The leak was a legitimate cause for worry, though there is no evidence that the disclosure had any major or lasting impact on the shape of the treaty that finally resulted from the talks. Actually, more substantial U.S. concessions were eventually made...
There was extreme concern in the White House. I wouldn't characterize it as paranoia, exactly, but there was extreme concern. It was all out of proportion. It focused on two subjects: demonstrations and leaks. Every time there was a new demonstration or a new leak, the concern heightened...