Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands for a new center building and black guards to protect black housing. Cornell President Dale R. Corson asked the FBI to probe the fire and posted a $10,000 reward to help catch the arsonists. As black anger deepened, Corson imposed an 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. campus curfew and got a court injunction to prevent further disruption...
...midnight the Cambridge police decided to call for a curfew starting at 1:45 a. m. The curfew gave police the power to arrest on sight anyone walking the city streets...
...Penh, and two National Assembly deputies who had voted to depose Sihanouk were reportedly slashed to death. To keep the demonstrations from spreading to the capital, the government sent tanks to seal off roads leading to Phnom-Penh, closed Pochentong Airport and imposed a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. More ominously, Acting Head of State Cheng Heng charged that Viet Cong forces on Cambodian soil "have begun actions against the Cambodian people and our soldiers" near the border, and Prince Sirik Matak warned that an attack by thousands of Communist troops "could not be ruled out." There were reports...
Tear Gas. The third night, despite a curfew and the arrival of some 300 additional state law-enforcement officers, the students continued their rock hurling. Police attempted unsuccessfully to break up unruly crowds, and from a hovering helicopter equipped with a loudspeaker ordered them to disperse. With only one known exception, the police kept their firearms bolstered, sometimes throwing rocks themselves when they ran out of tear gas. One cop was even photographed using a slingshot...
...another, using actors as interchangeable parts, a cast of 17 playing 88 roles, stylized and depersonalized. They reach hallucinatory heights. Once, Ionesco simply puts two rooms onstage, furnishes them identically with a bed, a chair and a wait ing woman, and brings their men to them defying the curfew. "I had given up hope," each woman says, and from there the dialogues of loving, reassuring cliches go on in strict musical parallel, words and acts in either room echoing within moments in the other...