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...this electronic operation, the typesetters of former years have been transformed into "copy processors." Among them are a crack crew called page coders. Working at a bank of glowing terminals, they convert stories into unique computer-language translations, or "codes," in which photographs, text and other elements of the page are represented by numerical commands...
...Lawmen crack down on international drug traffickers...
...bishops believe you can't find the arguments to sustain papal teaching." Father Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America doubts that the ban is based on good reasoning, concluding that "faith and reason cannot contradict one another." Curran and McCormick think that the Pope may crack down on dissident priests and make the birth control issue a litmus test in appointments of bishops and seminary professors...
Your article "Case of the Classy Madam" [NATION, Oct. 29] is disturbing. Has the New York City police department nothing better to do than crack down on a prostitution ring? In France, Sydney Biddie Barrows would have received the grand cross of the Legion of Honor for her services to humanity...
Yalman noted that the army may play a crucial role in the coming months. When the army raided the Golden Temple, a number of Sikh soldiers refused to fight, choosing to join the extremists instead. Rajiv may have to contend with similar desertions if he decides to crack down on the Sikhs, Yalman said...