Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks, in groups of about 100, marched with picket signs in front of Byhalia stores as sheriff's deputies and Mississippi Highway Patrolmen policed the town. Tentative negotiations between the blacks and town leaders were held, but quickly collapsed. As tensions grew the first week, the mayor imposed a curfew on the town, and merchants were asked to close their stores early...
Police Sweeps. Thus nobody sees much chance for an immediate end to such control devices as the 1 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. curfew, the operations of the five domestic intelligence services, or the periodic police sweeps through urban shantytowns in search of "subversives." The Congress remains closed (the building serves as a center where records of political detainees are kept), while political parties are still suspended. TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, who visited Chile last week, reports that even many who opposed Allende are fearful that complaining in public-about the high cost of living, for example...
Tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled through the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa last week, but despite a general curfew, few of the city's 725,000 residents seemed aware that anything unusual was happening...
...frustrated. Last week as a presumably fighting-mad Heavyweight Jerry Quarry, 29, weighed in at Madison Square Garden for his bout with former World Champion Joe Frazier, his wife Charlie weighed in with comments on their married life for NBC's Today show. "We have a two-week curfew," explained the blonde former Miss Indiana. "Gil Clancy, Jerry's manager, is in the room right next to us, and his ear is glued to the wall. If there's a cough in the middle of the night, Gil says, 'What are you doing in there...
Once an agreement is made, the parole board releases the prisoner to the halfway house (on the seventh floor of the downtown Minneapolis Y.M.C.A). Counselors help find a job, and initially there is an 11 p.m. curfew. Group therapy sessions twice a week continue for the first six months. Though the debt is sometimes quickly paid off, the inmates must stay in the program until they are fully released from parole...