Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos proclaimed martial law and assumed dictatorial powers 18 months ago. Since then, he has tried to restore an atmosphere of normalcy to his troubled country. In some respects, it appears that he is succeeding. Gas rationing has been lifted and the curfew has been cut to three hours. Tourists are once again flocking in to savor Manila's uninhibited night life and to take advantage of its excellent shopping bargains. American businessmen, who have invested $1 billion in the Philippines since World War II, are again confidently signing up new projects. Reynolds Aluminum, for instance...
...rockets -less powerful than the howitzer rounds but still terrifying because they fall randomly. After one rocket crashed into the courtyard of the Lycée Descartes, which was luckily empty of children at the time, the Lon Nol regime closed all schools and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew...
...seems that the night before the season opener, Mike and a number of other KHS stalwarts had spent the late hours carousing at one of the wilder parties in the Kennebunk's rather mundane history which broke up after the state police busted it. He got in somewhat after curfew, and had a rather oppressive headache throughout the following afternoon--during which we offered up 48 points while tallying...
Santiago's raucous night life has been snuffed out by an 11 p.m.-5:30 a.m. curfew. Restaurants other than those in tourist hotels no longer serve dinner. "Bando 28" bans all gatherings during curfew hours, thus thwarting attempts by fun lovers to get around the curfew by holding their parties from dark to dawn...
...strength on the West Bank is unknown, or at least unproved. Probably for that reason, a rash of terrorist incidents broke out there last week. One grenade landed in the Jeep of the military governor of Nablus, Colonel Eliezer Segev, wounding him seriously; the Israelis accordingly imposed a curfew on the town of Nablus for the first time in four years. To the north near the town of Jenin, Israeli troops demolished five houses belonging to Arabs suspected of sabotage...