Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the 9 p.m. curfew the streets are nearly deserted. Chen Houyang, 42, a Chinese businessman, says: "We are afraid to go out after 6 o'clock. I'm worried about my sons. The oldest is only 15, but the police will snatch him. All the police know how to do is eat money, money, money. It's never been this bad before," and he snaps his mouth like a dog nipping at the heels of a retreating intruder. People are shifting away from the Lon Nol regime. By the scores refugees are heading...
...better than a set lineup; yet he has been freely platooning his players for years. He says that he believes in treating players like mature adults; yet he has been known to invite troublemakers into the alley for a fistfight and to break down the hotel-room doors of curfew violators. He insists that there is no substitute for experience; yet this season he is fielding a team so young and green that its players have been dubbed the Babes of Summer (after Roger Kahn's best-selling reminiscence about the old Brooklyn Dodgers, The Boys of Summer...
While the talks went on, Beirut remained under martial law. At the end of the dusk-to-dawn curfew, traffic snarled into monster tangles at checkpoints, as soldiers scanned cardboard lists of suspect license numbers. Crowds were forbidden to gather, and even the pinball parlors (the latest craze in Beirut) were closed. In a government security drive, scores of people were arrested. The government also deported hundreds of foreigners, mostly Syrians, who lacked residence permits...
...late afternoon the government nervously imposed a curfew on all of Beirut. Children at the British School, used by the foreign community, were kept overnight. Authorities decided that they were safer sleeping in the basement than venturing into the streets to go home. Before the airport was closed, incoming tourists were conveyed into the city by armored police vehicles. Some motorists who ignored the curfew were hauled from their cars by troops and butted in the back with rifles...
...government lifted the curfew for two hours during the morning, and Beirut citizens made a quick run on foodstuffs. Lebanese television, which normally broadcasts only at night, stayed on all day. Instead of providing live coverage of the battles, though, it tried to divert viewers with cartoons and reruns of soccer matches and Hogan's Heroes. The radio carried army communiqués but dropped its usual programs of Arab music in favor of such soothing Western classics as Gounod's Ave Maria and Brahms' Lullaby...