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When Claire Grenewald, a Summit, N.J., high school sophomore, made a habit of staying out late with her steady boyfriend, her parents bought her a beeper. Whenever she is 15 minutes past her 11:30 p.m. curfew, her parents dial a telephone number that causes a tiny electronic device stashed in her purse to beep, reminding her that it is time to go home. The elder Grenewalds also take the beeper along on their frequent trips to New York City. Says Susan Grenewald: "The kids can just buzz us if anything important happens. It means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Are Going Beep! | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...south as the Drake Hotel, which is next door to where the judge of the Conspiracy 8 trial lives. There are no police in the park: they are all in the streets outside waiting to move in if the Weathermen stay past the eleven o'clock curfew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weathermen're Shot, They're Bleeding, They're Running, They're Wiping Stuff Out | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...remaining defendants, including Major David Mofaz, deputy commander of the Judea district at the time, has been in progress since November and is expected to end Feb. 17. Mofaz and witnesses have testified that the military governor of the district, Lieut. Colonel Shalom Lugassi, to "enforce a curfew" in an Arab refugee camp, ordered his officers and men to shoot down alleyways, fire at the panels of solar heaters and break the wristwatches of Palestinian detainees. Mofaz is accused of assaulting some detainees and of failing to prevent the other defendants from doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East If: We Will Do What We Please | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Indeed, even as the votes were being counted, election tension erupted in violence. In Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, two people were fatally stabbed and more than 70 others were wounded before a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Local Theater | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...crush Solidarity. In his village it was hard to see any evidence of a "state of war," Jaruzelski's term for martial law. Says Miroslaw: "Here you do not really sense martial law. We did not have tanks or soldiers warming themselves by roadside fires. And a curfew in a village is ridiculous. Who could enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Ideals of Solidarity Remain | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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