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...only bastion of pure Id on an extraordinarily neurotic and repressed campus. You'd hardly have to be a literal Freudian to think that this is what the conflict is all about. Paul Attanasio...
...basis of the commission's elaborate preparations was a $3.4 million computer system purchased with U.S. funds. Officials programmed the computer with painstaking care, matching the national ID number of every potential Salvadoran voter with 6,598 polling tables at locations around the country. The procedure was considered tamperproof: at each table, citizens were supposed to hand over their ID cards, to prevent double-voting. A precinct secretary would then look up the ID number on the computerized voting list, mark it, and hand out a ballot emblazoned with the party emblems of the competing candidates. After the voter...
...voting stations were jammed. The voters were inspired by more than the desire to exercise their rights: by Salvadoran law, failure to vote is punishable by a fine of up to $20. Although the fine is rarely levied, failure to get a voting stamp for one's national ID card might result in arrest by security forces as a suspected "subversive...
...idea is being embraced everywhere. At Maytag's factory in Newton, Iowa, employees do more than keep pace with assembly lines. A single worker may build an entire washing machine subassembly. Then he checks his work with a stethoscope and stamps his ID number on the product. Says Vice President Sterling O. Swanger: "Quality is everyone's business at Maytag...
...just walking up Mass. Ave. one night with a friend or two, minding your own business, when two officers stop you. They throw you against a wall, rudely search you, and then curse you out--all the while refusing to let you present your Harvard ID...