Word: curfew
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Just after the 1 a.m. curfew one day last week, 300 heavily armed American and Vietnamese MPs, civilian police and militiamen, supported by 100 armored cars, trucks and Jeeps, swooped down on a narrow dirt alley in Saigon and sealed it off. As their house-to-house search began, G.I.s groggy with sleep and drugs scampered in every direction, a few over rooftops, trying to escape. Their women followed, some stark naked, some wearing only pajama bottoms, as spotlights from two helicopters above played on the bizarre scene. When the roundup ended four hours later, 56 girls and 110 G.I.s...
...curfew was unenforceable; groups of freaks gathered on the Common every night for weeks there after, as if daring the police to try to push them off it. Summerthing ignored the Council's request, as did Harvard. And the merchants, not satisfied, came together again the following Wednesday to try to find out a way to get back to the profitable Cambridge they had known. Stores like Krackerjacks, J. August, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bobbi Baker Ltd. had been hit hard. Krackerjacks had lost $2400 in windows, and as its manager said, "You have to sell a lot of bluejeans...
Again, some Cambridge radicals smelled a trap, and began circulating the word that the planned action might not be the smartest in the world. Nevertheless, by curfew time about 150 people had gathered on the Common and trash bonfires were burning brightly...
...police relentlessly pursued the crowd up toward Radcliffe, blocking off all entrances to the Square, redirecting traffic, and announcing an 11 p. m. curfew. A few windows were broken up Mass. Ave. and one car was set afire, but the disturbance was fairly well dampened before it ever caught...
Following the incident, the Cambridge City Council imposed a 9 p. m. to 8 a. m. curfew on Cambridge Common to prevent groups from gathering or sleeping there...