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Soviet Viceroy. Meanwhile the Soviet ambassador to Prague, Stepan Chervonenko, acting like a Soviet viceroy, feverishly tried to put together a workable government. The Russians imposed a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew in the streets, tore down inflammatory posters, and issued stern warnings against provocations. They also set up their own newspaper and a radio station called Radio Vltava, which could hardly compete with the free stations. Russian security men began arresting liberal intellectuals who had caused chagrin in the Kremlin. Among those held under house arrest was Ladislav Mnac-ko, author of the novel The Taste of Power...
...some armed men on the roof of the Rude Pravo newspaper office. Soviet machine gunners opened fire, riddling the building's facade and shattering windows; their targets turned out to be Russian troops. The soldiers began firing without warning at anyone seen in the streets after the 10 p.m. curfew. In Prague, they killed at least three people and wounded two in one night, bringing the total number of those killed in the capital during the occupation to 20 and the wounded to 300. As many as 30 more may have been killed in the rest of the country...
...sanitation workers' strike in Memphis erupted into one of this year's first race riots. Martin Luther King's murder stirred a second outbreak and a stiff curfew. The steamy city on the Mississippi still seethes in the residue of April's unlearned lessons, and the aloof attitude of Mayor Henry Loeb and other officials hardly helps. This week the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convenes defiantly in the city where its founder was murdered. The S.C.L.C. national convention could bring Memphis to flash point...
...pretty much over for the night. Not as big a bust as the night before, a bit bigger than the ones which would follow on the two nights afterwards. Frank promised that there would be a police sweep every night if it was necessary to enforce the curfew...
...curfew is now in effect. All persons will leave the Boston Common immediately, or be subject to arrest...