Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leak came at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration, which had been embroiled in a dispute with Congress over funding of the controversial MX missile. Barely a week before, during the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation of West European support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President Fran...
...reason for the pressure problem turned out to be, in one official's words, "horrifyingly simple." Two plastic pins, about as large as two matchsticks and not much more expensive, were missing from the pressure regulator. These allowed a locking ring to open, thereby creating a leak. Incredibly, a Carleton employee, who has since been barred from further NASA work, as well as his supervisor, signed an inspection sheet affirming the pins were in place...
...intimidate the Sandinistas. Included were financial aid for opposition groups within Nicaragua and military assistance to the various contras (counterrevolutionaries) who conduct raids into Nicaragua from bases in Honduras. For a "covert" operation, the U.S. effort was curiously, perhaps deliberately, open. News of Reagan's decision began to leak out in Washington last March. In Honduras, the American agents were easily spotted because of their jeans, plaid shirts and short haircuts...
...Ronald Reagan but on Bill Clements, whose blunt language and pro-business positions have antagonized many low-income voters. White, the underfunded underdog, began to edge up after three televised debates gave him an opportunity to put Clements on the defensive. White has attacked Clements' mudslinging leak of a driving-under-the-influence charge when White was a law student, and accused, the Governor of anti-consumer appointments to the public utility commission Clements has countered with charges that White is an incompetent attorney general. The Governor holds a slim but firm lead; it appears that only a huge...
SUCH OBVIOUS PARANOIA can't help but recall the embarrassing leak last May, when a transcript of a high-level discussion on enforcement became public. In the course of the meeting, which both Meese and Turnage attended, officials discussed possible political backlash from enforcement, and one suggested targeting politically conservative and quiet regions of the country for the first few indictments. The consideration of such underhand tactics, together with the current fumbling, indicate that a lot more unsavory action may yet be revealed...