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...Cambridge City Council early this morning imposed a 9:30 p. m. 8 a. m. curfew on the Cambridge Common following Saturday night's police-youth skirmish in the Square...
...curfew, passed 7-2 by the City Council, will not go into effect until approved by the City Council. It covers gatherings of large groups on the Common, but does not affect people who want to walk through the Common after...
...motion to include in the curfew a ban on the Sunday rock concerts was defeated. But the Council did pass a resolution asking Harvard College to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent "disreputable" persons from congregating at Forbes Plaza in the Holyoke Center...
...that held Northern Ireland together, it seemed, was the British army. Eleven thousand tommies under General Sir Ian Freeland patrolled Belfast and Londonderry and enforced a strict nighttime curfew. After the riots, General Freeland ordered his men to shoot to kill civilians carrying weapons. For a few days, such strict measures helped avert fresh outbursts in Belfast, even though 12,000 Protestants marched there in parades commemorating the 1916 Battle of the Somme in which 5,000 Ulstermen died. At week's end, however, pitched battles erupted between Catholics and troops who had discovered a cache of hidden weapons...
...curfew was dropped last Friday, but such was the disgust for both police and radicals following the outbreak that some residents are considering leaving Isla Vista. Patricia Thompson, 25, the mother of two preschoolers, is one of them. "I work at the bank and my husband works in the ROTC office on campus," she said. "We want to move out of Isla Vista. The problem is, the only transfer my husband could get would be to go back to Viet Nam. Right now it looks like a toss...