Word: curfew
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...losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered his men one night after a humiliating defeat. "There's no curfew tonight...
...women were herded before stern military judges and sentenced to terms of up to a year in jail; when the police ran out of handcuffs, they lashed the prisoners together with ropes. To keep people at home nights, the authorities arrested 10,000 for violating the nightly curfew-including those who had to leave after dark for medical care. "Under martial law," snapped an officer, "you shouldn't get sick...
...Curfew & Censorship. One squad headed straight for the Bando Hotel to arrest Manhattan-educated Premier John M. Chang, whom the army expected to find asleep in his eighth-floor suite. But Chang and his family had slipped away a few minutes before, were already safely hidden at a friend's house. When dawn came, the coup was complete. Seoul seemed almost normal but for the heavy guards at every intersection and the orders blaring over the radio from the headquarters of peppery little Lieut. General Chang Do Yung, 38, chief of staff of the 600,000-man ROK army...
...guns, passed out by the army rebels to civilians during the four-day revolt. In Algiers, police dragnets searched 10,000 apartments a night, but hundreds of ultras were missing from their homes when the police arrived. The rest of the white settler population, confined by a 9 p.m. curfew, gathered on balconies and roofs, threw rocks and vegetables at police search parties and beat pots and pans in the three-short-two-long rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise...
...like many other of Franco Spain's unpopular laws-such as forcing traffic actually to stop at a red light-the new curfew seems doomed to be broken. Valentin, owner of one of Madrid's leading restaurants, will be one of the first to break it. "I'll pay all the fines I have to," he says, "but I won't close at midnight. I owe it to my public. If the fines are too big, I'll ask the United States for a foreign aid loan...