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...under arrest?and an entire nation of 36 million was being held virtually incommunicado by its own army. Every private telephone in the country was dead. Gas stations were closed to private cars. Flights were canceled. All travel, even within Poland, was banned. A 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew was in effect every night...
...curfew was imposed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., and Poles were ordered to carry identity papers at all times. House searches were legalized. Movement between cities was restricted, as were such activities as sailing on inland lakes and territorial waters. The government said people suspected of threatening the state would be interned in "isolation centers" around the country...
...weekend--they saw more of the inside of airports, gyms and hotel rooms than of sunny beaches and San Francisco sights. Rising at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, they went to the airport, flew to San Fran, had a two-hour practice, ate dinner, and then observed a 10 p.m. curfew by going to bed. The following day they played Stanford and lost miserably, and Monday morning they caught a 5:15 a.m. plane bound for Boston. There were tiny patches of fun during the trip, however. After the match against Stanford, the 12 squad members went to a Harvard alum...
...after day, they sat in silence as witnesses testified about the killing of three guards in the Pontiac state prison riot of 1978. Then they were herded back to the hotel, where the deputies monitored all their phone calls, surveyed them while they took exercise and enforced a TV curfew after...
...weeks later, bandits again launched a brazen operation, this time during the nightly curfew. They smashed locks and shutters on a number of prosperous shops in the Pushtun Market, and made off with more than $1 million worth of cash and jewelry. Functionaries of the ruling People's Democratic Party were quick to blame the crime on insurgents, who were said to be trying to embarrass the government. The rebels denied responsibility, insisting that only the official cadres could have acted with such impunity during the curfew...