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...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...
...When it was over, the President mounted the stage. "I have a midnight deadline," he said. "They're calling a curfew on me." While the others went on to the White House for a buffet dinner and dancing, Lyndon and Lady Bird whisked off in a Cadillac limousine, made it to Bethesda 20 minutes ahead of the curfew...
...Communist newspapers were shut down, a dusk-to-dawn curfew was established, the army-run Radio Indonesia and the newspapers headlined charges that the Communists were deeply involved in Untung's coup. Communist leaders were jailed, and there was an intense search for arms...
...incidents increased, British security forces arrested 29 suspected terrorists and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Last week schools were shut down when students tried to demonstrate, and newspapers were forbidden to "carry news that might incite people." British troops patrolled the streets, exchanging occasional fire with snipers on the rooftops. For good measure, the carrier Eagle and the frigate Lowestoft steamed meaningfully into the Gulf of Aden...