| Rumsfeld announces
US armed forces will adhere to Helvetica Convetions in Iraq.
WASHINGTON- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, attempting
to extricate the administration from concerns over the treatment
of Iraqi detainees, announced new policies for the treatment
of Enemy Combatants, Persons of Interest, Evil Doers and Enemy
Prisoners of War. Rumsfeld said the policies will not be based
on the Geneva Convention – a standard of conduct adhered
to by most of the civilized world but rather a new US authored
Helvetica Convention.
 The
two sets of policies are “…essentially the same.
They’re based on the same principles of what’s
the right thing to do.” said Rumsfeld. But the new Helvetica
Conventions are denser and “we can get more information
in there in less space, we can handle more characters in the
same geographic area, it changes the layout a bit but that’s
gonna help us transform Iraq.” the secretary added.
The administration is also rumored to have considered adopting
Palatino Conventions but found they did not present a strong
enough bold appearance.
The folowing illustration shows an example of the text in
both versions of the convention.
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