Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within three years after the University donated the underpass to the city in 1965, the bridge began to leak "drastically" during every rainstorm, forcing city employees to pump out thousands of gallons of water, public works commissioner Conrad Fagone said...
...suit against Harvard in 1976--one year after Cambridge made final repairs to the bridge--city officials charged that Harvard knew about the structural deficiencies when it relinquished ownership of the underpass, Highly said. He added that Harvard has for the past decade denied prior knowledge of the leak...
...found its way into the Times. Hersh, who is writing a book about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has been doing research at the National Archives-where a team of twelve archivists is reviewing the remaining Nixon tapes. The former President's lawyers may cite the apparent leak in arguing that material in storage at the Archives is not safe and should be removed -causing further delay in the process of transcription. Even so, the new addition to Watergate lore may not be the last. Predicts one former top Nixon aide: "That's nasty stuff. There...
...thousands of pounds of both had to be destroyed. Other rumors blamed birds, dogs and cats for the contamination, and frantic families put hundreds of pets to death. Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon de Ardoz, people even talked about an accidental leak from American chemical warfare weapons which they be lieve are stored at the base. Spanish officials laughed off such charges. Said one: "If this is the most toxic germ weapon the Americans can manufacture, I don't think their enemies have much to fear...
Lawrence J. Joyce, director of B&G, has declined comment on the leak since it occurred, saying only that, as far as he knows, a "broken coupling" caused the problem...