Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...14th time since the Government started officially keeping secrets 60 years ago, the federal classification system has been modified. "The Government classifies too much information, classifies it too highly and for too long," declared President Carter last week in announcing that he had fulfilled a campaign promise by tightening the rules under which bureaucrats can wield CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET stamps...
...Sets limits on the use of classifications higher than TOP SECRET. In the past, officials have put their most sensitive documents in these nameless cubbyholes, keeping them out of the public eye indefinitely. No one knows how many of them exist. But from now on, department heads will have to justify these ultrasecret classifications in writing to the Oversight Office. Unless renewed, they will expire in five years...
...private, or decoding, key, on the other hand, is derived from the original prime numbers. To use a simple example: if the encoding key were 323, the decoding key would have to be 17, 19 (since 17 X 19 = 323). If a code breaker wanted to decipher the secret message, he would first have to factor the product-in other words, extract the original two prime numbers that are the source of the decoding key. But even in the computer age, factoring, which can involve trying out seemingly endless combinations of numbers, is an extremely time-consuming process. While...
...inner group of correspondents for a private, off-the-record, all-secret lunch on politics at the home of Preston Grover of the Associated Press...
...clean piece detaching itself from his head. Then he slumped in my lap, his blood and his brains were in my lap ... Then Clint Hill [the Secret Service man], he loved us, he made my life so easy, he was the first man in the car ... We all lay down in the car ... And I kept saying, Jack, Jack, Jack, and someone was yelling he's dead, he's dead. All the ride to the hospital I kept bending over him, saying Jack, Jack, can you hear me, I love you, Jack...