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Following the rioting, a strict curfew was clamped down on Lubin and six other towns and cities. Lubin protesters, however, skirmished with police for two more days, burning at least one building to the ground. The government reacted to the disturbances with strong hints that Solidarity might soon be banned outright. Government Spokesman Urban told foreign reporters that "the entire leadership of Solidarity cannot be considered as worthy partners for negotiations." From now on, he said, the regime would plead its case directly with the workers, whose "hearts and minds," he claimed, were now closer to the government...
...sense of strain and anxiety lingered ominously. Banks and government offices were open, but workers and shoppers who normally thronged the downtown streets of Nairobi (pop. about 970,000) were rushing for home by midafternoon to observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew, leaving the city center a ghost town. Blocks of shops in the downtown area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most...
Trying to check the lawlessness, the government has launched a cleanup operation, code-named Octopus, in the Bulawayo region, including a nighttime curfew on the western suburbs. Mark Dube, Deputy Minister of lands resettlement and rural development, told Parliament that dissidents responsible for gangsterism should be brought to the capital, Harare, and publicly executed by firing squad in the stadium...
...deeper sense of suspicion and dislike of the Argentines, the islanders often displayed sympathy over the plight of individual soldiers. The islanders fed hungry Argentines at their back doors, passing out sweets and cigarettes. "I caught the fear in their eyes," says Msgr. Spraggon. "One soldier violated the curfew one night to see me and just broke down and cried and cried...
...Warsaw, claims to know just who made that first "news-walk," but within days almost the entire population of 30,000 began to crowd the tree-lined main street for an evening promenade during the 7:30 newscast. When local authorities clamped on a 7 o'clock curfew to counter the protest, the resourceful residents of Swidnik took a walk during the 5 o'clock news broadcast. Frustrated officials finally lifted the curfew, and after a month of newswalks, Swidnik's citizens decided they had made their point and stayed home-but not before their unique piece...