Word: curfew
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...want to handle their sewage." Even if Sharon withstands coalition pressures, a prolonged reoccupation would bring international criticism. That risk was underscored when Israeli forces looking for Islamic Jihad activists in Jenin last week opened fire on Palestinian civilians who mistakenly thought that the Israeli-imposed curfew had been lifted. Four Palestinians, including three children, were killed...
...prize at Venice in 1994 for actor Xia Yu. But it was no ordinary tale from that often portrayed time. The movie, based on a short story by Wang, follows five guys and a girl running wild during one summer of Chairman Mao's engineered chaos: no school, no curfew, no authority figures, just a sexy, violent, exhilarating time. "For people my age," says Jiang, "the Cultural Revolution was actually a lot of fun. We were just kids being kids." When Jiang met American director Martin Scorsese in New York City in 1992, he told him his idea...
...expulsion of the riot’s instigators. Students accused the police of having been unnecessarily brutal and having used clubs to subdue the crowd. A city councillor proposed, unsuccessfully, that all students at local colleges—including Harvard and MIT—be given a nightly curfew...
...towns that Oslo placed under PA control, and is, as far as the lives of ordinary Palestinians are concerned, the only relevant authority. It is the Israeli military that determines whether Palestinians living in Bethlehem or Ramallah get to walk their streets or are forced to remain inside under curfew; it is the Israeli military that determines whether Palestinians get to leave one Palestinian city for another; and it is the Israeli military that decides even whether the PA's security personnel are allowed onto their own streets...
...hundreds—were civilians. They were civilians like Fadwa Jamma, a nurse in uniform who was shot in the heart as she tried to help a wounded man; Faris Zeben, a 14-year-old boy who was killed as he tried to buy groceries when a curfew was lifted; Jamal Feyed, one of many who were buried alive in bulldozed homes; and Kemal Zughayer, a man in a wheelchair who was shot as he tried to wheel himself up the street and then was crushed under a tank...