Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were leaks in the lobby. There was a leak in the basement. It rained in the office of Cabot's librarian. More leaks spring in the Science Centre than ever plagued the Nixon Administration...
...most suitable replacement. All along, Clark's deputy Robert McFarlane was considered by most of Reagan's advisers, and even by Reagan, as the obvious choice. But as in other foreign policy personnel disputes during the past three years, Reagan allowed the uncertainty to linger and leak. What should have been a clean change of command became another running story-similar to the one that accompanied the departure of Secretary of State Alexander Haig-of struggles between Administration pragmatists and ideologues. The recriminations from the dispute are still reverberating. "Those who fought McFarlane," says one consummate White House...
Reagan's leak rules open a fierce debate about censorship
...cylindrical Salyut 7 was launched in April 1982. Its present occupants, Cosmonauts Alexander Alexandrov and Vladimir Lyakhov, rocketed aloft to go aboard last June. On Sept. 9, according to Western intelligence sources, the ship developed a leak in its propellant system that disabled half of its steering jets. Aviation Week & Space Technology quoted one U.S. space official as saying, "Salyut 7 is essentially dead in the water." Eighteen days later a Soyuz ferry ship loaded with a fresh crew and additional supplies exploded on the launch pad. The two cosmonauts escaped certain death by lifting off from the flaming launch...
Officials gave different accounts of the cause of that leak, ranging from a deteriorated chlorine pipe to a rupture as a result of changing the chlorine tank...