Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining defendants, including Major David Mofaz, deputy commander of the Judea district at the time, has been in progress since November and is expected to end Feb. 17. Mofaz and witnesses have testified that the military governor of the district, Lieut. Colonel Shalom Lugassi, to "enforce a curfew" in an Arab refugee camp, ordered his officers and men to shoot down alleyways, fire at the panels of solar heaters and break the wristwatches of Palestinian detainees. Mofaz is accused of assaulting some detainees and of failing to prevent the other defendants from doing...
Indeed, even as the votes were being counted, election tension erupted in violence. In Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, two people were fatally stabbed and more than 70 others were wounded before a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed...
...crush Solidarity. In his village it was hard to see any evidence of a "state of war," Jaruzelski's term for martial law. Says Miroslaw: "Here you do not really sense martial law. We did not have tanks or soldiers warming themselves by roadside fires. And a curfew in a village is ridiculous. Who could enforce...
Following the rioting, a strict curfew was clamped down on Lubin and six other towns and cities. Lubin protesters, however, skirmished with police for two more days, burning at least one building to the ground. The government reacted to the disturbances with strong hints that Solidarity might soon be banned outright. Government Spokesman Urban told foreign reporters that "the entire leadership of Solidarity cannot be considered as worthy partners for negotiations." From now on, he said, the regime would plead its case directly with the workers, whose "hearts and minds," he claimed, were now closer to the government...
...sense of strain and anxiety lingered ominously. Banks and government offices were open, but workers and shoppers who normally thronged the downtown streets of Nairobi (pop. about 970,000) were rushing for home by midafternoon to observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew, leaving the city center a ghost town. Blocks of shops in the downtown area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most...