Word: curfews
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There is agreement that a 1 a.m. curfew will be put into effect. An exception will be made for those attending the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Norchi senses the futility and grows angrier: "If you think there should be a curfew and kids should be in bed at 1 o'clock, then, dammit, put them in bed." One local school, Belmont Hill, has come without a faculty chaperone. They threw a toga party on the 25th floor the night before. One of the members of their delegation posed as a teacher and signed them in. Chuck's problems have just...
...Because everyone has to get home before the 9 p.m. curfew, the cocktail hour begins and ends earlier. Conversation, in more fashionable circles, tends to center on the shortage of butane gas for cooking and whether to stay and support the Shah or get out. Then everyone says their thanks and farewells and leaves, only to become snarled in a huge traffic jam on their way home. Promptly at 9 the shrill of the traffic gives way to silence and a long low rumble: the Shah's tanks are once again rolling into position...
...mourners were a common sight as families buried the victims killed two weeks ago during protests against the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Martial law prevailed, and troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Tehran and eleven other cities to enforce a rigid 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. At least eight curfew violators were shot dead for failing to heed orders to stop. Six soldiers and a civilian died in a fire fight in Tabriz after saboteurs attacked their patrol. Security was tightened around the offices and refineries of the giant National Iranian Oil Company to prevent sabotage...
That night, back at the hotel, there was still time for them to be girls, so they got decked out and headed down to the Holiday Inn's restaurant and lounge to pass the evening. There was a city-wide curfew in effect because of the strikes, and that provided the perfect excuse to sit and get smashed, which they did. Janey seemed a little sullen; it had not been a good day for hero worshippers. By midnight, the girls were back in their rooms, and it was about 12:30 when a drunken security guard...
...first night of curfew [Friday] went. It was calm. But we must expect acts of sabotage and eventually terror. The reason is that the way things were going before [martial law], they [his opponents] didn't have to resort to that. They could have taken over the country-and I don't mean slowly. But if that is not possible for them, then they will resort to certain acts of sabotage and arson...