Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller: Well, I thought they said if we got in an emergency, they gave you a code to let them know...
...such improvements, why is a Federal Rights Amendment needed? Although reform by the states is useful, says U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Arthur Flemming, it is "plodding, haphazard, and offers no guarantees of ever reaching completion." Besides, state ERAS will not change the more than 800 sections of the U.S. code that the commission identifies as sex biased. Most important, according to the commission's report, women are still far from equal under the law. As many of them see it, an Equal Rights Amendment is −based on the evidence in the 14 states that have tried...
...yearlong investigations have been clouded in mystery, covered with top-secret code words and confused by accusations of corruption and foot dragging on the part of some of the investigators. But last week the Texas oil-price scandal broke open a bit when a federal grand jury in Houston handed up criminal indictments charging two small oil companies and five of their executives with a multimillion-dollar rip-off "This is just the tip of the iceberg," said a delighted J.A. ("Tony") Canales, the U.S. Attorney in Houston. "This is not a one-shot deal. It's just...
...often were under Mao. Fear of government highhandedness, party leaders now admit, has been running rampant. To boost morale and bring great order, the resurgent moderates who now run China last year adopted a constitution that provides for open and fair trials, and they have promised a new criminal code within the year. Foreign investors will also get legal protection from China, which sorely needs infusions of technology and capital (goal: $100 billion...
...middle class fear that instead of ushering in a new era of freedom, the revolution will result in an Islamic dictatorship as repressive as the Shah's regime. Those worries deepened last week when Khomeini passed along his guidelines for the reform of Iran's legal code. He ordered Justice Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under the Shah, would be repealed. Corporal punishments, such as flogging...