Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swearing-in ceremony. Nervous guards fired into one group, killing three students. That brought on a second mob scene, with 100,000 students-led by yellow-shirted members of the Indonesian Student Action Command (KAMI)-lining the five-mile funeral route. Sukarno retaliated by outlawing KAMI, declaring a curfew, and forbidding groups of five or more to meet in Djakarta. With that, he retreated behind machine guns to Merdeka Palace to await developments...
...Delicate Matter. Ky very quickly began to learn the limits of power in Saigonese politics. Though hardly known for quiet nights at home himself, he tried to slap a curfew on Saigon's teeming bars and brothels, only to back down-mainly because in a tense war capital, revelry is almost an essential. But he also produced some welcome surprises. Acknowledging the obvious, he declared war on North Viet Nam. Then, with the nation legally at war, he doubled army pay (from $33 to $66 a month for a private), cut in half top civilian government salaries, including...
...with what is known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-ordering up to half a dozen beers a minute before the "beeroff" bell, gulping them down in the 15 minutes before the barmaids had to collect all glasses. Professional teetotalers kept the 6 o'clock curfew alive in Melbourne for 50 years, but last week it finally died. Acting on the advice of a royal commission, the state parliament pushed back the normal closing time four hours-so that Melbournians could stretch their drinking till a more civilized 10 o'clock...
...called for some good resolutions. The Moscow city council made several. Effective Jan. 1, unescorted children under 16 are banned from public places after 9 p.m. on school nights, 10 p.m. on holidays. Children's performances of plays, movies and sports events must end half an hour before curfew. Any child who wants to go may have to walk-not be cause Moscow suffers from any such capitalist nonsense as a transit strike, but because bicycles are forbidden at all times to youngsters under 14, motorbikes to all under 16. Also no-go in most of the snowbound capital...
...mounted on long poles to look underneath vehicles driven by Vietnamese. In the Caravelle Hotel, Vietnamese guests of Americans heading for the top-floor restaurant had to submit to searches in the lobby, and were required to leave their ID cards behind with the concierge. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed by Westmoreland on all U.S. military personnel in Saigon...