Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goat Jesse Owens won a creditable round of applause at Michie Stadium last week. But the biggest hand-an extravagant two-minute ovation-went to No. 757 in the class: William Andersen, chairman of the cadet-run Honor Committee that enforces the Military Academy's honor code. Said Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., commandant of cadets: "There was a message there for somebody...
Andersen was a zealous upholder of the code (which states that "a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate anyone who does" and which demands expulsion as the sole penalty). With West Point in the midst of the worst cheating scandal in its 174 years, the seniors who won their second lieutenants' bars last week were endorsing a strict construction of the code...
Federal Judge Richard Owen refused to halt the hearings. He agreed to consider convening a three-judge panel to rule on the code's constitutionality, but he left little doubt about his own view. "It does seem to me," said he, "that the U.S. Military Academy is entitled to have its cadets not lie, steal or cheat...
...code is expected to be adopted at the next OECD conference of foreign ministers, scheduled for June 21. The question is: Will the code make any difference? The OECD has no power to enforce its injunctions. Furthermore, the code is written in such turgid bureaucratese that many of the 29 commandments are vague and imprecise...
...OECD'S purposes in drafting the code was to head off a possible effort by the developing countries to ram through the United Nations their own tougher strictures on the multinationals. Nonetheless, the code does perform a useful service as the first major statement by the industrialized nations about how they expect their corporations to behave elsewhere. The code may also inspire some developing countries to enact up-to-date business legislation that would outlaw exploitative business practices-just as they have long been forbidden in the nations where the multinationals were born...