1.   Although some of the summit leaders have criticized Yeltsin for ordering a brutal crackdown in Chechnya, the Russian president found some sympathy in Halifax.

2.   And Yugoslavian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, waging a brutal crackdown in Kosovo but wary of Western military intervention, needs time.

3.   Despite a recent brutal crackdown on democracy activists in China, the president called for continued close dialogue between Washington and Beijing.

4.   He said that in the context of brutal Egyptian crackdowns on extremists after the assassination, he feared for his life.

5.   In Bolivia and other Latin American countries, the threat of American sanctions has led to brutal military crackdowns in drug-growing areas and alarming human rights abuses.

6.   It was followed by Tamil uprisings, brutal crackdowns, assassinations and other aspects of a revenge cycle.

7.   Just three years before, in a brutal crackdown, the government had choked off a democratic uprising, and this Southeast Asian country was under tight military control.

8.   Karachi has slipped back and forth between times of deadly mayhem and brutal crackdowns, and now is a period of crackdown.

9.   Put in charge of Tibet, the young politician turned against his mentor and led a brutal crackdown on dissidents.

10.   Seven years after its troops killed hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government remains dogged by an international image shaped by the brutal crackdown.