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Following an initial night of troubles on Thursday, McGinnis added, security measures taken by the organizers successfully prevented further mishap. This included a 50 member patrol of Harvard students to enforce an 11:15 p.m. curfew. The only other trouble after Thursday came when nine students were sent home for drinking...
...excitement of a Marxist revolution and experienced one of the bloodiest days in the tiny island's history when then" popular leader, Maurice Bishop, and more than 100 citizens were gunned down by renegade leftist radicals on Oct. 19. They had fearfully endured a round-the-clock curfew imposed by an undisciplined military regime that issued orders to kill any violators. They had huddled in their houses after the American invaders had jolted them awake in a furious predawn assault...
...Assad's enmity by signing a troop withdrawal accord with Israel. On the other hand, the Progressive Socialist Party, led by Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, issued a fresh set of conditions for the talks, including a complete halt to cease-fire violations and a lifting of the nightly curfew in Beirut. Jumblatt himself hinted that the talks might break up over a dispute as picky as the seating. Before leaving for Switzerland, Jumblatt and his fellow leaders in the antigovernment National Salvation Front met with Assad for six hours in Damascus to devise their strategy for the conference...
...Woodward Academy last week to take Amy and three school girlfriends out for a surprise family dinner in Atlanta. In addition to the requisite birthday cake, Amy received a bouquet of balloons and a few gifts. But she was back at the private boarding school for the p.m. curfew. She entered Woodward as a junior this fall. And, who knows, the once retiring Amy may follow in her Father's footsteps: she has already been elected president of the Key Club...
...students were in danger. But they did feel in considerable danger. Three students came back saying things like. "It wasn't an invasion. It was a rescue. "That's one justification. I think it's plain that most students felt themselves under serious threat. There was a 24-hour curfew, orders to shoot to kill, a government that just murdered a number of people in cold blood, they felt that that was enough of a justification. I think another justification is that it does seem as if some Cuban intervention was imminent. It's possible to conclude that Prime Minister...