Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blared his emergency siren in the presidential palace one day last month, then decreed a 10 p.m. curfew, a rare measure even for Papa Doc; anyone caught on the streets after the witching hour took his life in his hands...
...just five hours, the first of 4,100 Guardsmen were mobilizing. Soon after, Maier proclaimed the curfew. There were a number of serious firefights with snipers; four people died as a result of the riot and 101 were injured. Maier relaxed the curfew each day by degrees, and the violence subsided after four nights. Urban Coalition. Widespread reliance on martial law is hardly an appealing prospect for the long run. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, a member of an informal Cabinet task force that began meeting during the Detroit riot, is convinced that only programs giving slum residents...
...Vernon, N.Y. -- A ban on liquor and a curfew were imposed after two nights of mob disorder...
Governor Hughes pretty much took over. Besides calling up the Guard, he closed all of Newark's liquor stores ("We'll dry this city out"), ordered all guns and ammunition confiscated from the stores that were selling them, imposed a curfew that advanced from midnight to 11 p.m., and finally to 10. He also worked long hours touring the riot area, and his task force arrested some 50 looters. Still the mob reveled in the curious exultation of the explosion. "Was the Harlem riot worse than this?" a Negro girl asked a reporter. When he assured her that...
...helicopter units in Viet Nam are already equipped with the scope, and many of them fly four to seven missions a week. To avoid hitting innocent civilians, most missions are carried out in "free-fire zones" designated by the Vietnamese province chief and kept under strict dusk-to-dawn curfew. The U.S. forces also drop leaflets warning the people that anything moving outside of their village after dark will be fired upon...