Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action; Democrats generally condemned it (see following story). Supporters agreed with Ford that his predecessor had indeed "suffered enough." Critics, including many legal experts, charged that Ford had established a dual system of justice, that he had put Richard Nixon above the law. On all sides, there were grave questions about the ways in which the pardon would affect the men currently jailed or awaiting trial for Watergate-related offenses (see story page 19). Said John J. Wilson, counsel for one of the six men who are scheduled to go on trial in Washington on Sept. 30 on charges...
After the funeral in Hyde Park, N.Y., when the crowd had drifted away and workmen were shoveling dirt onto the coffin, Eleanor Roosevelt turned around and walked back alone toward the grave of her husband. A distance from it, she stopped. For a while she stood there, watching from afar, saying nothing. Then she walked away...
...Turks' hard-lining stand was bolstered by the discovery of a mass grave at the village of Maratha in eastern Cyprus, with 84 crumbling corpses; the village's population had been only 93. As Village Shepherd Kemal Mustafa described it, Greek gunmen entered Maratha Aug. 14, herded away elderly men, women and children and shot them. The number of victims was confirmed by Swedish United Nations officers. Greek authorities rather unconvincingly said that the corpses might be Greek Cypriots instead of Turkish-a suggestion that the Turks angrily denounced as an "added insult to our grief." Later...
...Rourke himself protested that O'Connor had not, in fact, forbidden him to baptize the child "under holy obedience" -the form of order usually used in grave matters. Moreover, he said, the dismissal procedures amounted to "almost a trial by Telex," and he intends to appeal the decision to the Vatican. Meantime, he remains a priest-if not a Jesuit-in good standing, though he must now find a bishop who will authorize him to exercise his priestly functions publicly...
...recommendation put forward by the delegates linked family planning with "socioeconomic development," which requires massive infusions of foreign aid. Many underdeveloped nations were obviously unwilling as yet to accept openly responsibility for coping with overpopulation and its resultant hunger. Still, the conference had at least focused attention on these grave problems. When the ideological heat cools down, some progress may be made in resolving them...