Word: curfews
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...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
Hemeid's boss was more easily intimidated. Three weeks ago, Hemeid was fired, another victim of the latest surge of fear and violence between Arabs and Jews. "My employer was scared of me," said Hemeid last week, sitting at home under military curfew. "How am I going to find another job and feed my family...
When that failed to stem the panic, the frustrated police decided to enforce a curfew along the road that passes in front of the presidential offices, thus protecting Nigeria's most prominent men from any magician, including one tempted to use the commotion to launch a coup...
...federal jobs are already reserved for members of tribes and untouchables, and high-caste students fear they will be squeezed out of the job market. As protests spread, Singh said in a speech that he would not "dilute" his plan. Meanwhile, 24 towns and cities were placed under curfew...
...Curfew again: Nablus returns to its motionless antiworld, its un-Palestine...