Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bishops' charges echoed other reports in recent months. Refugees who fled into neighboring Botswana told of beatings, rape and torture by government forces, and of villagers being denied food supplies as a result of a stringent 18-hour curfew and a ban on transport in and out of the region. The bishops' report, which was given to the government two weeks before it was released publicly last week, stung the Prime Minister. Mugabe, 60, who was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Catholic Kutama Mission, wished the churchmen "success in their prayers," but declared that...
...defended his government's policies in Matabeleland. "We have built more roads, schools, clinics and boreholes in that area than we have anywhere else in the country," he said. As for the government campaign against the rebels, he declared that the situation "has been brought under control." The curfew has been cut back to the period from dusk to dawn, and buses and private transportation are once again permitted. President Canaan Banana, who is a member of the Matabele tribe, assured Zimbabweans that the curfew that still existed in some parts of the province would "not last...
...leaders promptly dissolved the country's only political party, suspended the constitution and declared a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. But they also threw open the doors of Guinea's jails and released some 250 political prisoners. Said an official communique: "No one will again be frightened to express his or her opinion in Guinea...
Starting in two weeks, the Cafe will break its current 9:00 p.m. curfew, serving cold sandwiches, hamburgers, cake, and chocolate chip cookies to computer buffs and Cabot dwellers three nights a week, according to Marian P. Burns, manager of the Cafe...
...people prepared, so did the government. It imposed a 48-hour curfew to limit street demonstrations. Ironically, the curfew made Chile's 24-hour general strike last week far more effective than widespread street rioting would have been. Fed up with the ten-year-old regime of General Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chileans kept their children home from school to protest their country's 30% unemployment and 30% inflation. Public transportation was scarce, and a majority of truckers stayed off the roads. After the Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall...