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Harvard compensated for the loss of Billy Corkery, Larry Desmond, Dave Hynes, Harry Reynolds, Jay Riicy, Andy Burns, Doug Elliott and Mark Noonan--all benched for breaking curfew after the Army game--by forechecking extremely well and outscoring the Eagles 4-1 in the last two periods...
...rioting. Toward dawn, Allende decreed a state of emergency, placing under army control the entire province of Santiago, which encompasses more than a third of Chile's 9,000,0.00 people. General Augusto Pinochet, the local garrison commander, imposed press censorship and a 1 a.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. "I hope the army does not have to come out," he warned, "because if they do it will be to kill...
Ulstermen could also be grateful that the peak of violence passed without an immediate widening of the conflict. The government had not declared a general curfew or a state of martial law; a widespread Protestant backlash against Catholic militancy had not appeared; and members of the illegal Irish Republican Army (the I.R.A.) had not resorted to mass terrorism. Nonetheless, the outburst marked a reversion to outright religious warfare. From Protestant and Catholic alike comes the warning in that pungent northern twang: "There's going to be a bloodbayeth, I'm afrayud...
...heights of La Paz, Bolivia, where "we killed ourselves to win a $600 watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were a yard too wide, of volleying on a blocked-off street in downtown St. Louis to let people know "that we were alive and playing," and of the art of lobbing shots through the rafters of bandbox arenas...
...Said state N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "Apparently they were out to kill a black, any black." In the wake of the killing, angry crowds of Negroes roamed the town, occasionally hurling stones at windows and passing cars. Heavily armed, nervous police patrolled the streets and imposed a one-night curfew...