Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only sound in Lahore was the banshee wail of the curfew siren and the tramp of hobnailed military boots on the darkened, empty streets...
There was no response. Templer slapped a 2 2-hour curfew on Tanjong Malim and cut the rice ration. Work stopped. Villagers had only two hours a day in which to buy food. British soldiers went from house to house, handing out a questionnaire. In Chinese, Malay and Tamil, Templer wrote: "If you are a Communist I don't expect you to reply. If you aren't, I want you to give ... as much information as you can to help my forces catch the Communist terrorists in your area ..." He itemized the questions, then added...
...soldiers collected the questionnaires in sealed boxes, which Templer himself opened. Some of the letters contained only insults. But a few days later 28 people in Tanjong Malim and in a village near by were arrested. After 13 days the curfew was lifted, the rice ration restored, and the people of Tanjong Malim went back to work...
Because a good share of the cowboys are teenagers, four large insurance companies have suggested the streets be cleared of 18-21 year old drivers after 9 p.m. For College students, of course, this would be a practical inconvenience and a social catastrophe. But apart from this, the curfew seems the wrong approach to the problem of insurance and accident rates...
State Insurance Commissioner Dennis E. Sullivan said last night the bill had not yet been filed at the State House. Sullivan said he did not know whether the curfew would also apply to students driving to and from the College during vacations...