Curfew Is Imposed After Troop Mutiny

Ivory Coast was shaken by a military mutiny and spent its first night under curfew since the army seized power in December. Military ruler Gen. Robert Guei imposed the 7 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew after soldiers protested in the main city, Abidjan, and elsewhere, demanding money from the ruling junta for their role in the December coup. Soldiers in the streets fired in the air. Calm had returned to Abidjan by nightfall, and a spokesman for the mutineers read a statement on national television asking his comrades to return to barracks. But some military sources said overnight that the mutineers had yet to do so and had said that they would stay in the town with their weapons to assess the junta’s response to their demands.