Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CAPITAL CURFEW...
Skirmishes quickly spread to other parts of Gaza City. Officials ordered a curfew, to no avail. Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters filled the streets, chanting anti-Arafat slogans and menacing the authorities. One mob descended on Arafat's military headquarters and tried to pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals denounced Arafat and his followers as stooges for Israel and vowed revenge. During a funeral procession for one of the fallen, a mourner took up an increasingly popular chant, "O Arafat, O Arafat, the Jihad killed Sadat," a reference to the Egyptian leader assassinated by fundamentalists...
...government could only muster contradictory signals and empty gestures in response to the invasion panic. Jonassaint's state of emergency was roundly dismissed as a national joke when the military failed even to declare a curfew. Derision turned to surprise when, in a city where nothing works, pothole-repair crews and street cleaners suddenly made an appearance along several main streets in Port-au-Prince -- presumably to demonstrate, however peripherally, that the government is capable of doing something...
Fenton said he supports a mandatory curfew, but only if such a law is passed separately in each city and town. "A law cold be set up by the state that could be accepted by each individual community," Fenton said...
Instead of a curfew, Bachrach proposed increasing funding for creative arts in public schools...