Word: martials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Despite martial law and a massive police presence in major cities, violent disturbances broke out all across the country. After an impassioned prayer meeting in Rawalpindi's Liaquat Gardens, 5,000 grieving Pakistanis clashed with police, hurling glass and rocks at buses and cars. One bus was burned before police dispersed the crowd with tear gas. "We are fed up," said an office worker as he fled for shelter. "Our own leaders are the enemy. Zia should hang by the same rope...
Gloria Foster not only takes the stage, she rules it. With impassioned grandeur, she drives her lethal lance of love through her son's vulnerable heart. She glories in his martial wounds, she would rather see him dead than have his honor stained...
...diplomatic reception for the American ambassador on December 27, 1974, and subsequent kidnapping of 11 members of Somoza's inner circle--for which they received the release of 14 political prisoners, $1 million in ransom, a lengthy radio statement, and flight to Cuba--led Somoza to order martial law and censorship of the press on the same night. Crowds lined up on the roads leading to the airport, applauding the Sandinistas, but Somoza did not lift the sanctions until mid- 1977. The Sandanistas also set the stage for the massive revolt that took place last fall with the dramatic seizure...
Calling the McGovern-Hayakawa alliance a "peculiar marriage of convenience." Chinamano said there can be no free election in Zimbabwe with 90 per cent of the country under martial law. "What are they going to monitor?" he asked...
Asked what percentage of the country the Front controls, Chinamano said, "The area in which there is martial law. Ninety per cent." The people in the country accept the idea of the Front, he added...