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...slapped a curfew on Brazzaville, went on the air to plead for calm, even spoke harshly to his own Balali followers. Eventually, to the embarrassment of the new republic, French troops had to be called in to restore order. An uneasy peace returned, with at least 500 people under arrest. Among them: Jacques Opangault, charged with "incitement to sedition, rebellion and pillage...
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 5--Provisional President Manuel Urrutia arrived in Havana late today, raising the prospect that martial law in Havana province and a prospective curfew for the capital would be lifted quickly...
Across the unhappy island, barbed-wire barricades cocoon key buildings, seal Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is paralyzed (loss per day: about $120,000 of Cyprus' gross daily income of $290,000). Factories are closed for lack of labor and materials. But no sooner does the curfew lift than terrorists kill another victim...
...without ceremony did the final shipload of 1,126 U.S. Army men, last of the 10,000 American troops brought to the Middle East last July, leave Lebanese soil last week. They left a wearied Beirut at last in some semblance of peace: movies reopened last week, and the curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping and bomb-throwing...
...Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, the army commander in central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim...