2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) (08/21/84)
**** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh => My experience (and that of my friends) is that quite a few NON-COMMUNIST Western => European nations (including Sweden, Switzerland, and France (also perhaps => West Germany)) have either a) nationally issued ID cards and/or b) requirements => for vistors to register with the local police (OK - when you check into a hotel => the hotel does it for you by taking your passport over to the police). I have been in all of the West European countries and never gave up my passport once or got any ID card. You always show it to hotel clerks but they don't take it.
alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (08/22/84)
>I have been in all of the West European countries and never gave up my passport >once or got any ID card. You always show it to hotel clerks but they don't >take it. I have been thru a few Western European countries myself. On rare occasions my passport was taken from me for the nite. The hotel clerks told me it was so they could take down info from it; that the police required them to record the info. Most of the time, tho, i wasn't asked for, and didn't show, any id. sdcrdcf!alan