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Ghetto is an Italian word, but it is defined in German. In 1939 the Third Reich took the obsolete custom of separating Jews from the human community and gave it new meaning. No longer were there merely segregated facilities, suffocating laws and a curfew. By the '40s isolation had become a euphemism for what Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs calls "Habitations of death . . . staining each minute with a different darkness...
...animosities. On consecutive nights last week, Hispanics and whites pelted one another with rocks, bottles and fire bombs. Some 40 local policemen, backed up by state troopers and SWAT teams, used tear gas and nightsticks against the mob. The authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed a ten-hour curfew, halted liquor sales and posted extra police in the area. By then a local bar had been ransacked, homes damaged by fire bombs and a liquor store gutted. Seventeen people had been hospitalized, half a dozen with gunshot wounds...
Those who hoped to ignore the law quickly set a precedent earlier in the term when they were caught drinking in a dorm room. Although the Summer School's Administrative Board--which handles all disciplinary problems--allowed the students to finish the summer term, it imposed an 11 p.m. curfew...
Some students, however, called the curfew too severe. "You miss out on a lot of what Harvard's all about--learning from and talking with other people, and that goes on mostly late at night," Julie Subrin of Newton, Mass. said...
...armed Indian paramilitary forces thundered into the airport outside Srinagar, capital of the mountainous northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on the border with Pakistan. In the overwhelmingly Muslim city (pop. 550,000), black flags of protest flew as at least 6,500 soldiers and police enforced a curfew with the threat of shooting violators on sight. Regular air traffic to and from Srinagar was cut off. The last civilian airliner to leave the capital, with 264 aboard, was hijacked by fleeing Sikh extremists. The plane landed in Lahore, Pakistan, where the hijackers surrendered to the authorities after having...