Word: curfew
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...awaken the next day to find all the streets leading to the center of town closed off with barbed wire, the type often used to fence confiscated land in preparation for the establishment of a settlement. An army jeep with a loudspeaker announces a curfew: no one is to step outside his home for 48 hours. A whole town seems to be placed in solitary confinement...
...doublespeak jargon of Poland's military bosses, it was called Operation Calm. The two-day police sweep, as described in the government press last week, netted 145,000 curfew violators and other petty miscreants. Out of that group, 99,000 were "warned," 29,000 "lectured" and 7,000 fined on the spot. Some 3,900 people were hauled into police stations...
...splitting of society has become so pervasive and perverse that some people are angry that they were not detained by the police. One famous actor who thinks that his politics are radical enough to warrant his confinement in an internment center goes out every night after the 11 p.m. curfew in the hope of being arrested. Thus far he has not been picked up, a fact that adds to his anger...
Through the gloom covering Poland today it is possible to catch an occasional glimpse of spirit that still glows. In one huge housing block in Warsaw, occupants who own dogs have agreed to walk their pets together-15 minutes after the 11 o'clock curfew. They stand in the courtyard chatting, some in bathrobes, defying the police to try to arrest all of them...
...most Poles were still unable to move freely outside the region in which they live, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. Every evening at 10:45 the streets and highways were suddenly transformed into speedways as thousands of Poles rushed toward home to beat the 11 p.m. curfew. A considerable number-5,500 according to the government, and as many as ten times that number according to other sources-did not get home at all because they were still being held at one or another of the 78 detention camps reportedly set up throughout the country...