51.   Some days, a teacher said, dismissal is held up by police drug raids outside.

52.   The authorities have responded with the sharpest crackdown in over a decade, arresting thousands of militants and killing dozens in police raids.

53.   The first police raid was conducted in April.

54.   The inmates took the hostages to use as a human shield to prevent a police raid, media reports said.

55.   The material was found in a police raid on an apartment suspected of being the headquarters of a counterfeiting operation.

56.   The police raid stunned the quiet village.

57.   The other case, which is pending, stems from a police raid in March of a suspected methamphetamine laboratory in a trailer home in suburban Denver.

58.   The police were carrying only nightsticks and shields, and state officials contended that no strikers were injured in the police raid.

59.   The police raids were coordinated by a special task force based in Nice, where investigators said they discovered the first evidence of an apparently well-organized child pornography network.

60.   The pressure included attempts to call in loans and a spectacular police raid last month on the Moscow headquarters of the company.