Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many of Sakhnin's residents did not know about the sudden curfew, the Arabs claim. Thus early in the morning, when a woman left her house, she was shot without warning. When a neighbor rushed to help her, he was shot dead. Then, according to the villagers, two others were killed...
...there was no significant resistance, and the generals did not even bother to order a curfew. The coup was no great surprise, after all. Argentines had been speculating for months about when-not if-the soldiers would take power. Conditions were deteriorating so rapidly that only the military could restore order (TIME, March 29). The generals were not exaggerating last week when they claimed that Argentina was faced with "a tremendous power vacuum threatening to sink it in disintegration and anarchy." Political killings, by right-and left-wing murder squads, had recently reached the staggering rate of three...
...steps inside the bleak main gate and the mood changes dramatically. There is dancing nightly to the driving beat of rock music and strobe lights in the recreation center's Club Intersport discotheque; upstairs, a movie theater is S.R.O. Village swingers, meanwhile, gripe about an 11 p.m. curfew and the strictly enforced regulation that men cannot enter women's residences. "This would be a great place," quips British Bobsledder Tony Norton, "if it weren't for the Olympics...
...each day. That restriction, designed to prevent them from picketing, was overturned as unconstitutional later in the week. Still, many teachers were astounded by the city's tough tactics. For example, John Lennox, assistant football coach at Wilmington High, who was arrested for violating the curfew, says he was at the teachers' union office only to apply for a loan. "I am flat broke. Heck, I can't even buy a sandwich right...
...sticks close to his suite where he peels grapefruit and plays high-stakes blackjack with his sparring partners to pass the time. On his first morning of roadwork, he found the Manila streets clogged with joggers; he was later granted special government permission to start before the national curfew is lifted at 4 a.m. In the afternoon, he retreats to his dressing room, which is decorated in the same red and blue motif that jazzes up his gym in Philadelphia...