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...first acts of Minh & Co. were to declare martial law, with an 8 p.m. curfew and censorship of press messages abroad. Dispatches discussing the fate of Diem and Nhu were carefully cut, forcing correspondents-at least for a while-to use precisely the same ruse they had employed against Diem's martial law period last summer: smuggling their files out to the cable offices in Hong Kong and Bangkok via cooperative airline passengers...
Stephen M. Bingham, an executive of the Yale Daily News, was also among the arrested. They face charges of running a stop sign, violating curfew laws, or distributing leaflets without a permit. The last is the same charge used in earlier Indianola arrests...
...arrest of 135 youngsters at Ocean City, Md., accused of violating a midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew, which the city council had imposed to avoid repetition of last year's riot...
Despite his vigilance, Frommer occasionally errs. In Stockholm, the three-masted sailing ship Af Chapman is a highly recommended stopover for students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least a couple of hotels that generally rent rooms to streetwalkers and their clients, and a drinking spot that is an underworld rendezvous frequently surveyed by police. Nevertheless, says the manager of London's truly familyish Arundale Hotel, "This book has been the biggest aid to Britain since the Marshall...
Heading the four-man junta that took over is Navy Commander Ramón Castro Jijón, 48, who immediately declared that the new regime was anti-Communist and democratic. In the first 24 hours, the junta imposed martial law, established a strict curfew, outlawed the Communist Party, and pledged to go after bands of pro-Castro terrorists roaming the backhands. Next year's presidential election was canceled, but the military officers promised to call a convention to draft a new constitution "when opportune." The U.S. would probably recognize the junta. But whether sober soldiers, governing by martial...