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eats its es t t
the so-eater tt e wai
the utto y. !r nn
thre'
the il ri Cc i r .
r
As er ci ve ; r r;•:
•srnce the iesseo re1i f c 2 e
. rerurn. But ira trava a tne r-
• to t ci ai r .in ft
have not eased.
President ti Sadr, hi seIf -
.slegod, s aic that jr r a I aif
years of revrlut v r jr tj e
try's cm has rser e i in e very
way. There Is no securjtv, the ecoi
ortiy is crippled, the war with fraç
goes on, he a d in a s .a emenz issued.
f rn his office whiie d rn t3 -s
e tside caijed fcir his death as they had
os tce called for the teeth of the Sh it
eports frz Ttharan c1 a doc
mont d i -ted by re ar eziles in
. the United States show that the
t 'acn is worse than are '. ft ha
‘veloped a gory log c that can only
bring monnting disaster.
The Ir anian pariiarnem meets in
charade c -f 1es'aijrr , O ‘rv ac
cuses the President of tre sc. a .i4 su
i tha t.
hostility against t e fttarn (C osne -.
- ni) and the relip ous leader jp rnea
hostility aga i nst God,”
It has to consider a now code, b-
mitted by the Prime ? tiaister for tinal:
appr vai, which thchifes a “Bill cf
Vengeance.” mjr
firmed as authentic by
mats in Teheran, osten .y c ie-
ments ls amic law thottz f ew Mns
lems elsewhere wotthl accem it. Its
very detail and precision snake itsncre
ppa1lin even than the frenzied v .
lence of chaos.
Peditated n 'iurder. the bill stiles.
is sub ect to oo .ssas (ven reance) and
the parent, unrd ax or n :r 4j tf
the victim may siay the n rw th
:the assent of an jrjaj jr se
repr entatlve. The crime need be es-
l tablished only ‘by t timony of t'wo
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male witnesses arid the sCotence is to
•ecartied out ime iistsly.
i f a Moslem man has hilled a Mo' .-
tern woman. her inrni! rnu t nay h un
heif i'iis hoon-bchs (rkKxl worth) be-
• ora itjnr him. ut If a omai
has murtiere man. to oerizftv need
he paid for taa.tzg revenge.
- If an kn urv short o death has been
inflicted, the width, isr th and depth
of the v eefui wc r . i ; iusa be ecual.
An es : r n sr zi
wh her e .asureo in depth.
u 'ye fairness. c: zent of
the m ;rQ ‘r.uat o aar r accu-
E o clcthes aver the sn at must
he cve or an r stiaved,
end if the rimn z,al steirta ce may
cause an inareese to titC carent of tfle
tao.toi - ' wound, henhe ano feet
ii
Vor: ance can be a cttad irarnecli-
sly o :er the cnrae, arid if later tho
&e. of the iunds. the
can be II of a
penalty.
These ar& nrdv tt -acts •tf the bill.
• a more ct: J rn '. !n:i zht than
r riots Into
the rure life w th ominam
to - e ir : Ca-
a t iLS ‘gr -oss o t r. o huruari
‘ - r - av
“T- tnfsz:- - s are is-
— sr 2xt when me times
require silence and silence when it is
time to speak.”
What can we say that mist make a
as before the r'evciu.
tior.. we are now l crested In the
ssr.tez c ahe mariona! siznificance
of Iranian vcnts arid little concerned
with how s'oonte there treitt aci other.
That led to dis t for the United
States before, and so it mioht again.
nmcai:v, the r':i so far has
not prevohad the widespread catastro-
phes eiseeriiere that were feared. With
the industrial world in recession,
Iran's oil is not missed. The long,
stalemated war with Iraq has not
spread as yet, and patr-iotjc reaction
Seems to have held off the danger of
iran's spiirtixu into fragrre that
wcvujd tempt Ereedy neighbors, eepe-
cially the Sovict.s,
Thaucth Communists and pro-Soviet
agents are evidcnt y active, Moscow
has remaine ' remarkably cautious in
tryica any eve t moves, And the vis
ible failure of the revolutic ,, to im-
prove anyone's lot seems to have con-
tained extlosior,s of fundamentalist
in the rest C! the islamic
world.
But almost a ‘thinu still can hsr-
pen, except, it seems, the emer2en
0? a happ er, more hi.ixnane society
which rnir,ht provide the Moslem
model so matw of the ctriciriaj revolu-
tionaries honest to achieve.
For the a'iorrisr t, Ath istan arid
Poland are sr -oinr : oo .Y busy arid
the United Soates has ori time toplaii
defense of strategic Western j,nter ' t
in the rsrittn. Certairt y, there is r.oth-
irig the U.S. Cover merit can do now to
relieve the dreadful situation inside
Iran, though as people we can try to
sustain the wan hopes of moderates
with concern and syrnpathy .It will be
anti-American if we e000urare or even
are mdirferenz to roores: on.
The va uet of Icierance anti compas-
sion nre in shore suppjv in the world.
That's the buildup everyone needs in
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THE NEW YOF . K TiME M DAY JUNE 15. 1951
