Word: curfews
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Rica was luckier; she drew a twelve-hour curfew, thus can go out during the day. Lest they violate the law by talking to "political undesirables," the Hodgsons and several other couples will have to get special dispensations from Vorster to 'communicate with each other...
...dispensation was granted to the children of the married victims, who may have guests "provided that the house-arrested parents do not mix with these visitors." Vorster also promised those under 24-hour curfew that he would reduce it to twelve if they found jobs, but he forbade their leaving home to look for work. His object seems to be to make their lives so miserable they would want to quit the country. Said he: "I'll help them go." But the detained 13, figuring that their very presence was a rebuke to South Africa, stood fast...
...entire Rostov region was suddenly declared off limits to foreign tourists in June, supposedly because of a cholera epidemic, although a major track meet was held on July 8 and Russian citizens were allowed to move freely in the allegedly disease-ridden area; 2) Novocherkassk imposed a curfew on young people, to remain in effect for two years; 3) Nikita Khrushchev's second in command, Frol Kozlov, made a special trip to the area June 8 and stayed for several weeks to deal with "certain party organizations for neglecting ideological and educational work...
...emergency. Thousands of steel-helmeted soldiers in full battle kit ringed the city while rifle-toting security cops raced from house to house in search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...
...Bread, Houses, Work." While the Algerian commanders were behaving more and more like old-style Chinese warlords, the Algerian people were wearying of conflict. Mobs surged through the city in defiance of the curfew, disgustedly shouting: "Seven years of war is enough." Said one of their leaders: "We don't want fighting among brothers. We don't want a Congo here." Over and over, the crowds roared: "Toute la clique au poteau [To hell with everybody]." Most ominous note for the squabbling leaders was a silent march by 16,000 members of the powerful Union of Algerian Workers...