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Word: graveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspapers that the Government had temporarily stifled quickly resumed their revelations. Other publications-and even a Senator -added to the unprecedented avalanche of classified documents and analysis (see following story). Yet the court's public brevity and restraint only masked intense personal differences among the Justices over the grave issues. These divisions emerged in the rare determination of all nine Justices to write their own, sometimes emotional, opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Press Wins and Presses Roll | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...results, abstracted from data collected by Gallup pollsters, indicate that Americans in large numbers feel that their country has slid backward during the past five years. Moreover, nearly one in every two Americans regards national tensions as grave enough to "lead to a real breakdown in this country." There is a spreading lack of faith in both the nation's leadership and its institutions; only a small minority dismiss the national unrest as "the work of radicals and troublemakers." A clear majority agrees that the U.S. must end the war in Viet Nam, even at the risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: A Different Fourth | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...secret information violated both the Espionage Act and an executive order dealing with classified material. Arguing for the Times, Alexander Bickel, the polished Yale law professor, contended that the Government had failed to show there was a "direct and immediate link" between "the fact of publication" and any "grave event" that endangered the nation. When Griswold contended in his summary that the First Amendment was "not intended to make it impossible for Government to function," Justice Potter Stewart observed that unless there was conclusive proof that publication of documents endangered national security, then "prior restraint is presumptively unconstitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Toward the Legal Showdown | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...process. In 1953 President Eisenhower tried to straighten out the classification chaos by issuing an executive order. It broke down classification into three categories that are still used today: top secret, secret and confidential. Top secret is intended to cover information whose disclosure would result in "exceptionally grave damage to the nation." This means revealing critical military or defense plans or secret technological developments that would be useful to an enemy. Only a top-ranking military officer or department official can stamp a document top secret. Still, a lot of dubious material gets labeled top secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The U.S. Mania for Classification | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...board with the power to make documents public after two years. Even if Congress does not want to venture into the thicket of classified documents, the Executive Branch could impose stiff penalties on bureaucrats who classify more than they have to. At a time when Government credibility is in grave doubt, perhaps nothing would restore public confidence so much as release of the information that is now senselessly bottled up in official archives. Some of these mountains of documents might never be read; others might well embarrass the bureaucracy. But at least the Government would no longer be using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The U.S. Mania for Classification | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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