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...counter the plastiqueurs of Leopoldville, Adoula imposed a 6 p.m. curfew, and now each day when the sun sets over the Congo River, Leo is transformed into a ghost town. Adoula also closed his border with the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, where the Peking-backed Congolese National Liberation Committee has its Western headquarters. Formed by politicians loyal to the late Patrice Lumumba and imprisoned Antoine Gizenga, the rebel group is determined to carve up Adoula's tottering nation. Last week, in bucolic, mountainous Kivu province, where the Congo borders Rwanda and Burundi, the rebels were well on their...
Spear in the Back. Within hours, the situation was so far out of control that British-appointed Governor Sir Richard Luyt declared a state of emergency throughout the colony, ordered a 7 p.m-to-5 a.m. curfew in one troubled area, and sent a hurry call to London that brought 500 more Tommies to reinforce the troops already on hand. Still the killing went on. At Bachelor's Adventure, a predominantly Negro village 14 miles from Georgetown, Negroes took up spears and pitchforks, began attacking Indians and burning their homes. A pregnant woman, mother of eleven, was killed by a spear...
...empower cities to make curfew laws and other regulations to restrain the movements of individuals or groups...
Fearing a full-scale rising, Mba clamped a 6:30 p.m. curfew on the capital, then arrested Opposition Leader Jean-Hilaire Aubame, who had headed the short-lived provisional government. Though Aubame had never been particularly popular, the arrest ballooned him to heroic proportions in the eyes of the aroused public. The riots exploded with new violence, and in the glare of burning shops and houses, Libreville's French population-largely composed of old Indo-China and Algerian colons-noticed that only the Americans were spared the angry mob's violence...
Just before her election the Daily Pennsylvanian reported enigmatically that the Committee on Student Affairs had voted to "abolish the curfew for Senior women, in principle...