Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reactions at Radcliffe to proposed abolition of curfew hours for upperclassmen range from "I think it's great" to "I think it's silly...
...official admitted that the government was on the "defensive" in Algeria. A 9 o'clock curfew backfired: with the streets cleared of all ordinary traffic, the police prowl cars were fine targets for S.A.O. snipers coolly firing from apartment windows and rooftops. S.A.O. gunmen staged seven bank and payroll holdups, netting $130,000. Another S.A.O. detachment climbed to the sixth floor of the Algiers Prefecture building, blew up the state radio transmitter that was the government's main channel of communication with Paris, since both the French army and civilian radio services are heavily infiltrated by S.A.O. sympathizers...
...retaliating, Moslems ambushed a car, killing four Europeans. In Bōne, Europeans placed flowers at the spot where a 16-year-old boy had been killed while putting up S.A.O. posters. As the week's toll climbed from 20 to 30 to 40, the authorities advanced the curfew from 9 o'clock to 7, rushed police and troop reinforcements to Algiers. French police claimed to have arrested 106 European "extremists," including five "killers." A police raid on a villa in an Algiers suburb uncovered the secret headquarters of Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, propaganda chief of ex-General...
Wailing Siren. At week's end Algeria still seemed a smiling white city lying between a blue sea and distant snowcapped mountains. In the nightclubs along the Rue Michelet, couples danced until the midnight curfew, although traveling strippers have taken Algeria off their itineraries. At a movie house on the Rue d'lsly. Moslems and Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing...
...dazed-and just a mite suspicious. There was dark talk about the girlie shows that are planned. Local businessmen were skeptical about the "New York money" that has poured into the fair and that, to many Seattleites, seems somehow tainted. The city fathers have refused to relax the Sunday curfew on liquor. But these are minor matters, and most of Seattle has pitched in with a will, dolled up the city to a fare-thee-well. Trees and colorful news kiosks have sprouted on downtown streets; and parking meters now come in pastel hues. Some 131 projects are being renovated...