Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monitors were inspired by a 1977 Spiderman cartoon and introduced in New Mexico six years later. Now the contraptions are catching on. Oregon's Linn County is using ankle transmitters to enforce curfew restrictions on repeat drunk-driving offenders. Kenton County, Ky., employs the devices to monitor fathers under house arrest for not paying child support. Lake County, Ill., has ordered $51,350 worth of equipment in an effort to cut prison costs and relieve overcrowding...
...operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thought she had repressed during the day. At that time of the night, the only traffi consisted of tracks filled with bodies and detainees, and police cars that roamed the streets like lost wolves howling in the darkness of the curfew...
...months. In the western state of Gujarat, army reinforcements were brought in from positions along the Pakistani border after 91 people were killed and many homes and shops burned in rioting to protest job and education quotas for disadvantaged castes and tribes. Last week a dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect in Ahmadabad and soldiers patrolled the city. To the north, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, a general strike called by opposition parties erupted into violence. About 100 people were injured and 200 arrested as a result of the disturbances...
Since then, despite a government-imposed shoot-on-sight nightly curfew in the north, the Tigers have steadily increased the pressure, assaulting government strongholds, ambushing army convoys and derailing trains. By now the insurgents, grouped in six separate organizations, claim to have 1,000 guerrillas deployed in Sri Lanka and an additional 7,000 at the ready in India. They are assisted by 200 advisers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...disengage from southern Lebanon, they were also facing new unrest on the West Bank, where turmoil reached its worst levels in three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the soldiers...