Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end New Caledonians were enjoying an uneasy peace. The nightly curfew had been pushed back from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. In Noumea, restaurants and hotels were virtually empty. Before boarding his plane for the 12,000-mile trip back to Paris, Mitterrand spoke optimistically of his twelve-hour visit. "The threads which were feared to have been cut are tied again," he said. "The dialogue continues...
...Front. But at week's end Tjibaou declared that his party would be content with nothing less than complete sovereignty. The caldoches continue to argue that the Pisani plan would lead to a Kanak takeover. Pisani declared a state of emergency throughout the territory, including a dawn-to-dusk curfew. In Paris, where Premier Laurent Fabius dispatched 1,000 fresh troops to New Caledonia, a political uproar was brewing. Right-wing opponents of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government joined the island's French community in denouncing the Pisani plan...
...Chicagoans under 17 must be indoors or accompanied by an adult by 10:30 on weeknights, 11:30 on Fridays and Saturdays. More than 1,000 kids are arrested each week for violations of the curfew. The curfew has been used mainly as a means of controlling the tightly organized gangs of black and Hispanic youths-the Disciples, the Vicelords, the Egyptian Cobras-that terrorize their neighborhoods. So far this year, 133 Chicago youths have been killed in gang-related violence...
Ghetto is an Italian word, but it is defined in German. In 1939 the Third Reich took the obsolete custom of separating Jews from the human community and gave it new meaning. No longer were there merely segregated facilities, suffocating laws and a curfew. By the '40s isolation had become a euphemism for what Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs calls "Habitations of death . . . staining each minute with a different darkness...
...animosities. On consecutive nights last week, Hispanics and whites pelted one another with rocks, bottles and fire bombs. Some 40 local policemen, backed up by state troopers and SWAT teams, used tear gas and nightsticks against the mob. The authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed a ten-hour curfew, halted liquor sales and posted extra police in the area. By then a local bar had been ransacked, homes damaged by fire bombs and a liquor store gutted. Seventeen people had been hospitalized, half a dozen with gunshot wounds...