Word: code
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...guidance in such matters, Muslims usually turn first to the Koran, then to the Hadith, a collection of the teachings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad. They also rely on a legal code that Islamic jurists developed centuries before Europe heard of international law. A TIME survey of Islamic scholars shows that religious justification for holding the U.S. hostages can hardly be found in any of these three sources...
...atomic energy. These are just a few of the peculiarities of federal criminal law, a hodgepodge of 3,000 statutes that have accumulated since the first days of the republic. As a whole, says Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel Kenneth Feinberg, the aide most responsible for promoting a new code, the nation's current criminal laws are "terribly unfair, archaic and inefficient...
Congress has tried for 14 years to revise the code, only to be thwarted by philosophical wrangling. Two attempts in the early 1970s, the so-called S. 1 bill and another measure drafted by the Nixon Administration, collapsed under the plaints of civil libertarians, who objected to the proposals' strong law-and-order bent. Then came S. 1437, known as "Son of S. 1"; a less harsh version of the original, it passed in the Senate but died in committee in the House. Now there is S. 1722, or "Grandson of S. 1," a 440-page epic whose chief...
...Senate is expected to approve the Kennedy bill in May. The test will come in the House, the graveyard of other code reform efforts. The House version of the proposed code, which follows existing law more closely than the Senate bill, is now before the Judiciary Committee. Its backers, led by Massachusetts' liberal Democrat Robert Drinan, believe the measure will reach the House floor, possibly in June. If both chambers approve the legislation, it will be up to a House-Senate panel to reconcile the differences...
...easier to prosecute rape and tougher to impose gag orders on the press. Sex discrimination, like race discrimination, would become a crime. To come even this far has required much work: the hearing transcripts run for almost 20,000 pages. Supporters of the reform effort concede that a new code will not cure the nation's crime problems, but they are determined to complete the task. Another failure would mean starting all over again next year, and right now fatigue among the bills' backers is so great that many doubt there could be a "Great-grandson...