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...popular appeal and his dominance over the ruling New Jewel Movement party. In his place they established a 16-member ruling "Revolutionary Military Council" composed entirely of army officers. Its first decrees banned demonstrations, closed schools and all but essential businesses indefinitely, and imposed a four-day 24-hour curfew. Violators, Austin warned, "will be shot on sight...
David Rosen, director of public relations, said that he has not heard anything about "Curfew USA," adding that he would have to clear their use of any Harvard locations...
Directors Zoe Tamerlis and Yves De Laurot, a two-man production company working out of a van parked on Mass. Ave., yesterday began searching Harvard Square for "unknowns with Harvard faces" for their upcoming movie, "Curfew...
...morning to the sound of machine-gun fire as a column of 80 Soviet tanks rolled into the city and took up positions covering all bridges, boulevards and public buildings. Other tank forces ringed the city. At dawn martial law was imposed on the whole country, a 24-hour curfew on Budapest. Trains and streetcars stopped running, telephone communication with the outside world...
...twice with Democratic Alliance leaders to discuss such demands as changing the regime's ruinously monetarist economic policies and allowing elections well in advance of 1989, when Pinochet's term is scheduled to end. Jarpa agreed to suspend a 1973 emergency state law that imposed a nationwide curfew and to begin inviting over 1,000 leading political figures to return from exile. Two of the exiles flew into Santiago last week and were greeted by more than 5,000 supporters chanting anti-Pinochet slogans, an event that only months earlier would have brought a brutal response from police...