Word: coded
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Among the more practiced perpetrators of mayhem on the English language are members of the U.S. intelligence community. Already they have flattened the phrase communications intelligence (the fruits of electronic surveillance or code breaking) into "comint" and reshaped human intelligence (information from spies) into "humint...
This stern injunction was enunciated by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,300 years ago to his followers in a primitive desert society. Now, after centuries of being superseded by Western law, the exacting code of the Koran is once more gaining strength and support in a number of countries...
Five Arab states in the Middle East-Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Libya, North Yemen-base their laws on the Koran. In Egypt, which prides itself on its Western-style sophistication, a parliamentary commission is at work on a new code, based on Islamic law, that would make apostasy, among other crimes, punishable by death. A rider to the proposed bill provides that if a Muslim becomes a Communist he would be considered apostate and therefore subject to beheading...
...expects the new code, which carries penalties ranging up to $4 million for infractions, to halt completely the flow of tainted funds into Switzerland. But Swiss National Bank President Fritz Leutwiler, who has long crusaded for such reforms, hopes that the code will deter banks from actively assisting their customers in breaking national laws. Says he: "We are no longer assuming that every banker is a gentleman and that he observes the rules." Leutwiler speculates that the new code may even force the eventual closing of a "small minority" of lesser banks that have operated on the fringes...
...setting up such questions, the film-based on H.G. Wells' novel -gives promise of being a fairly gripping fantasy-adventure. But it answers all the questions too soon and then has nowhere to go. Moreau turns out to be a mad visionary who, having partially cracked the genetic code, is trying to breed animals into human beings. The servants are some of his handiwork. As for those creatures in the jungle, they represent Moreau's near misses - brut ish humanoids who cannot transcend their origins as bears, lions, hyenas...