Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slowly, the recognition dawned that Song's army was not going to hurt them. By the time the 7 p.m. curfew hour came, the crowd had swelled to monster proportions. Suddenly, some of the bolder demonstrators clambered onto passing tanks shouting: "Long live our soldiers." Doffing their helmets, the young tank crewmen joined the crowd in tribute to the students killed in earlier rioting by singing a Korean war song that begins...
...Secretary of State Christian Herter and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd arrived in Istanbul for a meeting of the NATO foreign ministers. A few hours before, a thousand students had been shouting "Freedom!" outside the buildings where the ministers were to meet. Calling a 24-hour curfew, the military governor cleared the streets. Three thousand students were locked up in military compounds...
Closing down all schools and bus lines and slapping on a 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, Song and his men rapidly reimposed order without once shooting to kill. But by the time the last rifle shots died away. 108 students were dead, and Seoul's hospitals were jammed with more than 700 wounded. From Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu and Taejon came news of other riots in which at least 22 more people had died...
...introduced European notions of marriage and divorce in place of Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then he set to work on Ramadan, a custom which he believes helps hold Islamic countries in "stagnation, weakness and decadence." Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn...
...eighth night of the insurrection settled over the city the crowds dwindled off home and the curfew was being largely followed for the first time since the troubles started...