Word: curfews
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...army ordered a strict 24-hour curfew in Dacca, with violators shot on sight. But soon the Free Bengal Revolutionary Radio Center, probably somewhere in Chittagong, crackled into life. Over the clandestine station. Mujib proclaimed the creation of the "sovereign independent Bengali nation," and called on its people to "resist the enemy forces at all costs in every corner of Bangla Desh." The defiant words, however, lacked military substance. At 1:30 a.m. the following day, soldiers seized the sheik in his home. Meanwhile, scattered rioting broke out in West Pakistan to protest the prospect of prolonged military rule...
...President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan imposed martial law and a 24-hour curfew over East Pakistan on Friday. He called the insurgents traitors and vowed to restore central government control over the area...
...people during an antiguerrilla campaign in northeastern Guatemala between 1966 and 1968, heard mounting calls for a crackdown. Finally, after four policemen had been gunned down by guerrillas in two days, Araña imposed the state of siege and a 9 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. Soon the blood began to run in earnest...
Soon afterward, during a three-day rest and recreation at the seaside town of Vung Tau, Calley saw six "mama-sans," Vietnamese women, machine-gunned on their way to market by South Vietnamese police simply because they were on the streets a half-hour before curfew lifted. "It was the first time," Calley said, "that it dawned on me that we weren't playing games, that we weren't supposed to be a bunch of Boy Scouts out there...
...compelled to wear mid-calf skirts despite summer temperatures of 130° F. Electricity and running water were unknown to most people. The xenophobic Said permitted few foreigners in and fewer Omanis out, but an estimated 200,000 subjects managed to flee during the past ten years. Cannons sounded curfew after sundown. With only three schools in the entire sultanate, the population was more than 90% illiterate. Malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, trachoma and leprosy were endemic, but there was only one hospital, staffed by American missionaries. Terrified of assassination, the Sultan abandoned his capital of Muscat and barricaded himself farther down...