Word: curfews
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When the violence in Iran's major cities worsened, Talbott and Brelis rushed back to the capital. By Friday, as dusk fell and a martial-law curfew threatened to cut off communications from their base at the Tehran Hilton, they gathered up their voluminous notes, typewriters and a store of candy bars for quick energy, and then headed for the nearby home of TIME'S Parviz Raein, where a telex was available. While Raein's wife, Sarieh, brought sustaining rounds of coffee and yogurt, the three men worked through the night, filing a barrage of reports...
...told the Shah, as Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand by itself." Said a general to the Shah: "It is against our military honor to stand the present situation." A lengthy late-night Cabinet meeting followed, and on the morning after, Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami proclaimed a curfew and martial law for six months. Not in a quarter-century had Tehran been under the rule of troops...
...streets are eerily quiet as the evening advances. Only the buzzing of summer locusts in the crape myrtle trees breaks the silence. The police have been on strike for six days, and Mayor Wyeth Chandler, declaring a "state of civil emergency," has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew...
...strikes and the curfew have persuaded some Elvis fans to stay home, but the hotels are still nearly 80% full (they had been booked solid for weeks in advance), and about 100,000 admirers have come to Memphis from the nearby dirt farms and even from as far away as Japan...
...minimum wage is $30 a month, the approximate pay of a laborer or a foot soldier, but it buys only enough meal to feed a family for about two weeks. Social services in Zaïre are almost nonexistent, and there is corruption everywhere. At night, after the 6 p.m. curfew, small groups of soldiers appear and begin taking "collections" from the public. For Europeans this practice can be upsetting; for Africans it can be brutalizing. Says a European resident in Lubumbashi: "The army is trying. But the officers simply have no control over their...