Word: curfews
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...Wide abuse" of 1 a.m. privileges has forced the Summer School to enforce curfew rules strictly...
Cautiously, tentatively, Seoul came back to normal. The crowded tea shops buzzed with excited conversation among Koreans who still could hardly believe their power had toppled Syngman Rhee's twelve-year rule. When the curfew was moved up to midnight, jazz bands resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...
Slowly, the recognition dawned that Song's army was not going to hurt them. By the time the 7 p.m. curfew hour came, the crowd had swelled to monster proportions. Suddenly, some of the bolder demonstrators clambered onto passing tanks shouting: "Long live our soldiers." Doffing their helmets, the young tank crewmen joined the crowd in tribute to the students killed in earlier rioting by singing a Korean war song that begins...
...Secretary of State Christian Herter and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd arrived in Istanbul for a meeting of the NATO foreign ministers. A few hours before, a thousand students had been shouting "Freedom!" outside the buildings where the ministers were to meet. Calling a 24-hour curfew, the military governor cleared the streets. Three thousand students were locked up in military compounds...
Closing down all schools and bus lines and slapping on a 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, Song and his men rapidly reimposed order without once shooting to kill. But by the time the last rifle shots died away. 108 students were dead, and Seoul's hospitals were jammed with more than 700 wounded. From Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu and Taejon came news of other riots in which at least 22 more people had died...