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...outside, boiling inside," says a government worker. A group of monks has circulated a leaflet calling for a peaceful protest this week unless the generals set up an interim civilian government, and there were reports that some monks had been arrested. A 9-p.m.-to-4-a.m. curfew is strictly enforced. Prices have risen by 100% or more on most goods. Gasoline is in short supply; filling stations are under armed guard, and buses are checked by soldiers to keep the drivers from selling their fuel ration on the black market...
President Chadli Bendjedid declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and called in the army to restore law-and-order. Total property damage was estimated at more than $100 million. The government said 900 people were ! arrested, and without disclosing figures admitted that people on both sides were killed during battles between protesters and security forces. Whatever the toll, the outburst jolted Bendjedid's ten-year-old regime, which has sought to revive the country's petroleum-depressed economy with an austerity program that included cuts in subsidies for food and other commodities. The result has been sharply rising...
Play with themselves? Carter and B.U. President John Silber are arguing that the new curfew rules will help create a better intellectual climate at the university. Does Carter think that masturbation is somehow more consequent with the academic mission of Boston University than is sexual intercourse? How, exactly? Perhaps he thinks it encourages more independence of thought. But then, the B.U. administration has never encouraged independence of thought in any part of the student body...
...swiftly as roving bands set fire to houses and cars. Ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijani battled with knives and guns in the worst outbreak of violence since 32 people died last February in riots in Sumgait, an Azerbaijani city. As Soviet troops arrived to restore order, authorities imposed a military curfew. The Soviet news agency TASS said one Armenian had been killed and 48 other people injured in the fighting...
...Nagorno-Karabakh, factories and schools were closed by a strike, a curfew was in effect and soldiers were patrolling, a resident said...