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Since then, despite a government-imposed shoot-on-sight nightly curfew in the north, the Tigers have steadily increased the pressure, assaulting government strongholds, ambushing army convoys and derailing trains. By now the insurgents, grouped in six separate organizations, claim to have 1,000 guerrillas deployed in Sri Lanka and an additional 7,000 at the ready in India. They are assisted by 200 advisers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...disengage from southern Lebanon, they were also facing new unrest on the West Bank, where turmoil reached its worst levels in three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the soldiers...
...week's end New Caledonians were enjoying an uneasy peace. The nightly curfew had been pushed back from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. In Noumea, restaurants and hotels were virtually empty. Before boarding his plane for the 12,000-mile trip back to Paris, Mitterrand spoke optimistically of his twelve-hour visit. "The threads which were feared to have been cut are tied again," he said. "The dialogue continues...
...Front. But at week's end Tjibaou declared that his party would be content with nothing less than complete sovereignty. The caldoches continue to argue that the Pisani plan would lead to a Kanak takeover. Pisani declared a state of emergency throughout the territory, including a dawn-to-dusk curfew. In Paris, where Premier Laurent Fabius dispatched 1,000 fresh troops to New Caledonia, a political uproar was brewing. Right-wing opponents of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government joined the island's French community in denouncing the Pisani plan...
...Chicagoans under 17 must be indoors or accompanied by an adult by 10:30 on weeknights, 11:30 on Fridays and Saturdays. More than 1,000 kids are arrested each week for violations of the curfew. The curfew has been used mainly as a means of controlling the tightly organized gangs of black and Hispanic youths-the Disciples, the Vicelords, the Egyptian Cobras-that terrorize their neighborhoods. So far this year, 133 Chicago youths have been killed in gang-related violence...