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...fourth, and bloodiest by far, in a series of monthly protests that had already led to nine deaths. Attempting to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew last Thursday, 18,000 troops and police battled hundreds of angry Chilean youths in the streets, while thousands of householders leaned from their windows banging pots and pans in a now familiar ritual of protest against the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. When the fighting ceased, 26 civilians, including three children, were dead, more than 100 were wounded by gunfire and an estimated 1,000 were arrested. In the aftermath, Major General...
...effort to prevent further violence, the Israeli government dispatched reinforcements of border police and paratroopers to Hebron. A 24-hr, curfew was imposed. Within minutes of the announcement, Hebron's merchants rolled down the iron shutters in front of their shops, and the streets were soon deserted. But violent demonstrations broke out elsewhere in the West Bank. In Nablus, a young Arab woman was killed when protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers. At Bir Zeit University, Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters, plastic bullets and finally real ammunition at 300 rock-throwing Arab students, wounding four. As Palestinian leaders...
...some places the city resembled a ghost town, in others a smoldering battlefield. Throughout Sri Lanka's palm-fringed, seaside capital, Colombo (pop. 586,000), shops were shuttered and restaurants were closed. Small groups of helmeted troops patrolled the empty streets, with instructions to shoot curfew violators on sight. But those tough measures may have come too late. During the previous five days, bands of Buddhist Sinhalese, 50 to 100 strong, had smashed, burned and plundered thousands of houses and shops belonging to predominantly Hindu Tamils. In Colombo's jail, 52 Tamils had been bludgeoned to death...
...orchestrated display of outrage was becoming increasingly familiar. As dusk fell over Chile's capital of Santiago, tens of thousands of people began beating pots and pans in a rhythmic cacophony. In the densely populated slum of Herminda La Victoria, gangs of unemployed youths defied a strict curfew, barricading the streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour...
...other union leaders for periods ranging from one to ten days, and dispatched troops to take over or patrol the copper mines. Last week the government instructed the press not to write any stories about preparations for the protest, and forbade reporters from moving around Santiago during the curfew...