Word: curfews
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...Cambridge License Commission hearing Tuesday, the city decided not to punish Mather House for the party and signaled that parties would likely keep a 2 a.m. curfew next fall...
When the sun goes down, the streets empty quickly. Curfew unofficially begins at 11 p.m., but few drivers, even those earning dollars from foreigners, stay out that late. One learns to fear the shadows that move. Gunfire punches holes in the city's eerie quiet. Two sharp cracks signal an American checkpoint firing warning shots. Rapid automatic fire sounds the news that electricity has returned to a neighborhood. Most ominous of all is the single shot...
...their own safety was threatened--the British high command "doesn't want us to make ourselves unpopular here," said a British soldier--were eventually given freer rein. By Friday the BBC was reporting that British soldiers shot and killed five bank robbers in Basra. The Pentagon imposed a nighttime curfew on Baghdad, and on Saturday, despite a fire fight downtown, the capital overall was much calmer. The looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes to restore many of the local security forces. "I would...
...militia are gone from Zubayr, but Dr. Hussein is apprehensive about a breakdown in security in the town. "It is very unsafe," he says. "There is no police force, no administrative apparatus of any kind." The British have instituted a 7 p.m. curfew but have few spare troops to patrol the streets. During the day, the town appears to be getting back to normal, with foodstuffs appearing in the market. But normality has its limits...
...mood among the Flying Horses' club management is far less sanguine. It turns out Gazza did not clear his father and Jimmy's stay with the team. It is all, says Shi Minghua, a team administrator, highly irregular. The famous foreigner has been allowed some latitude, like an extended curfew, his own private room and even an unchaperoned trip to the area's famous hot springs. But inviting an entourage of two men and six bellies is just too much, especially in a country so regimented that Olympic athletes are not informed of a parent's death, lest their personal...