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...floundering Kabul government of Party Boss Babrak Karmal was ordered to clamp martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the capital. Soviet troop reinforcements were rushed into the city to put down growing disturbances. Nonetheless, firefights that caused at least 50 casualties broke out in several parts of the city. As rebel leaders threatened to mount a full-scale attack on Kabul in March, intelligence officials in Washington could scarcely contain their glee at the Soviets' discomfiture. Said one defense analyst: "They've really got their feet in the quagmire...
...always seen, and after dark it materialized in force. "Nobody has any illusions about the fact that Kabul today is run. by men with well-oiled Kalashnikov rifles and chauffered Volga sedans," TIME Correspondent David DeVoss reported from the Afghan capital. "Every night, just before 11 p.m. curfew, fleets of armored personnel carriers roll into Kabul from depots outside. Bristling with four machine guns each, they rumble alongside the frozen Kabul River past shuttered mosques and deserted bazaars, and halt momentarily in front of each government building. The elite paratroops who alight do not doze or socialize like the less...
...surface, at least, there was a semblance of stability and normality in Seoul. The 10 p.m. curfew ordered under martial law closed down the city's busy neon nightlife. Still wary that North Korea might use Park's death as a pretext for invasion, South Korea's own 600,000-man armed force, as well as the 39,000 U.S. troops stationed in the country, remained on alert. Stepped-up intelligence surveillance, however, detected no threatening military movements across the Demilitarized Zone. Most of all, South Korea's interim emergency government seemed to be functioning smoothly...
...were taken for questioning. Meanwhile, the Cabinet was called into emergency session; as prescribed by the constitution, Premier Choi, a loyal Park administrator, was named Acting President. The army Chief of Staff, General Chung Seung Hwa, was placed in charge of martial law; he immediately ordered a nighttime curfew and press censorship. South Korea's 200 universities and colleges were closed, and a division of troops was moved into the Seoul area against possible disorders...
South Korea, however, was under martial law while lee lived there. University students, for instance, had a midnight curfew and riot police supervising their dances...