31.   Chinese officials launched a crackdown in March.

32.   China launched a crackdown last July on rampant smuggling of goods ranging from oil and industrial raw materials to microwave ovens and other consumer goods.

33.   Department officials said they would ask Bangkok Governor Bhichit Rattakul to launch a crackdown on vendors selling borax-laced food, the paper added.

34.   Each side has accused the other of killing civilians since President Slobodan Milosevic launched the crackdown.

35.   Dozens of people were arrested and Lukashenko has since launched a crackdown on his opponents.

36.   Each side has accused the other of killing civilians since President Slobodan Milosevic launched a crackdown on Albanian secessionists seven months ago.

37.   Fighting broke out there last year after Milosevic launched a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.

38.   Government launches corruption crackdown.

39.   Government opponents, however, accused the military of planting the bombs themselves as a pretext for launching a crackdown on the democratic and ethnic opposition.

40.   He launches a crackdown that makes him dictator of Italy.