Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, the picture is wonderfully fair to moviegoers, a superbly suspenseful, expertly crafted, entirely riveting entertainment. It is hard to recall a movie of recent years as absorbing, or as much fun, as The China Syndrome. That rather obscure title, by the way, refers to the theoretical destination of a plant's super-hot uranium core if it somehow lost its liquid coolant and burned through the floor, into the earth and onward to China...
National security and the Bill of Rights, it seems, are almost naturally at odds. How can the Government plug leaks and stop the press from publishing its secrets without muzzling free speech? How can it take any kind of national security case to court without spilling secrets at a fair and public trial? The answer has often been that it cannot. But last week the Government was back trying in two cases, one involving the Progressive magazine, and the other former FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III. Both cases illustrate the difficulty of keeping secrets in an open society...
...watered-down charges that he misled the Senate, and this winter the Justice Department simply dropped charges against the ITT officials. Now it appears that the FBI case is also in danger of aborting. Why? National security. Lawyers for the accused insist that their clients cannot get a fair trial unless sensitive Government secrets are brought out. Rather than disclose them in court, the Justice Department has been avoiding trial altogether...
Congress at least seems to be in the mood to try. Pressure is growing for an overdue revision of national security laws. Whether Congress can better balance the inherent conflict between national security and the rights of fair trial and free press remains, however, to be seen...
...American Newspaper Alliance. But to most front-line journalists nowadays, carrying a weapon while on assignment is a grievous offense against professional ethics. It also means forfeiture of a journalist's status under international law as a neutral noncombatant, and it encourages troops to consider all journalists as fair targets...