Word: curfew
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...baking sun rose over Miami Sunday, the toll stood at nine dead, four of them blacks, 125 injured. Nearly 200 had been arrested. A dozen fires still sent up great black billows of smoke, and there were continuing reports of looting. Police imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. on the debris-strewn streets...
Immediately after the Hebron attack, a round-the-clock curfew was imposed on the city's 50,000 Palestinian residents. The mayor of Hebron, Fahd Qawasmi, the mayor of nearby Halhul, Mohammed Milhem, and the Muslim religious judge of the Hebron area, Sheik Rajab Bayud Tamimi, were blindfolded and put aboard an Israeli helicopter, which deported them to southern Lebanon...
...military curfew did not include the 4,000 Jewish settlers of Qiryat Arba, on the outskirts of Hebron. Following the funeral of one of the attack victims, gangs of Jewish settlers, many carrying automatic weapons, rampaged through Hebron, firing into the air, smashing windows in homes and cars owned by Arabs, and attempting to break into stores. Israeli soldiers on the scene made only intermittent attempts to curb the violence...
...havoc erupted: from rooftops, three assailants opened fire with automatic weapons and lobbed six grenades into the group. Israeli troops guarding the clinic returned the fire. When the fusillade had ended, five of the students were dead and 16 had been wounded. Within an hour, Israeli soldiers clamped a curfew on Hebron, set up roadblocks around the town and scoured the area for the terrorists. At week's end a Palestinian commando group with headquarters in Damascus took responsibility for the brutal attack...
...modernistic executive mansion where Tolbert had died, security was minimal. A lone trooper stood watch at the gate, while a mere handful of armed soldiers milled around inside. At the seaside Ducor Inter-Continental Hotel, a sign in the lobby admonished guests to obey the dusk-to-dawn curfew. Its message: STAY OFF THE STREETS AND STAY ALIVE...