Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seoul was decked in all its festive finery last week as South Korea observed the end of two years, seven months and one day of military dictatorship. Buses were garlanded with wreaths and newly made flags decorated storefronts and streetcars. The midnight curfew was lifted for the day, and 5,000 prison inmates were released on amnesty. In a bone-chilling drizzle before the national capitol building, 15,000 shivering spectators watched former military Strongman General Park Chung Hee, 46, take the oath of office as South Korea's fifth civilian President. Promising never "to permit the resurgence...
...this, it is not necessary to harrass the student, and an extension of the present curfew from one to two would make it unnecessary for girls to leave functions early or race up Garden Street in order to avoid being late. Such an extension is particularly necessary if securing overnight permissions is made more difficult...
...while, Saigon looked like a city liberated. Vietnamese G.I.s guarding public buildings munched oranges, bananas and candy, showered on them by civilians grateful for the overthrow of the regime. Pretty girls embraced soldiers, draped tank turrets with garlands, scrambled squealing aboard army Jeeps. With the lifting of a temporary curfew and Mme. Nhu's ban on dancing, Saigon's long-repressed night life flowered as never before. In bars and cabarets, the B-girls shucked the white, hospital-like smocks they had been forced to wear under the morality laws, wriggled back into their traditional slit skirts...
...first acts of Minh & Co. were to declare martial law, with an 8 p.m. curfew and censorship of press messages abroad. Dispatches discussing the fate of Diem and Nhu were carefully cut, forcing correspondents-at least for a while-to use precisely the same ruse they had employed against Diem's martial law period last summer: smuggling their files out to the cable offices in Hong Kong and Bangkok via cooperative airline passengers...
Stephen M. Bingham, an executive of the Yale Daily News, was also among the arrested. They face charges of running a stop sign, violating curfew laws, or distributing leaflets without a permit. The last is the same charge used in earlier Indianola arrests...