1. As part of the widening crackdown, Premier Zhu Rongji announced the setting up of a special force to combat growing smuggling, a crime often abetted by officials. 2. Chinese police have questioned or detained seven dissidents in a widening crackdown on organizers of a political opposition party, a human rights group reported Saturday. 3. Even as Chinese President Jiang Zemin promised to protect human rights in a letter marking the anniversary, police ransacked the homes of several dissidents in a widening crackdown. 4. Four more democracy activists have been detained and their homes searched by police in a widening crackdown on dissidents in China, a human rights group said Thursday. 5. In a widening crackdown on Islamic militants, Israeli troops scaling ladders broke into a West Bank college dormitory before dawn Friday and arrested about two dozen students. 6. In a widening crackdown on Islamic militants, Israeli troops broke into a West Bank college dormitory before dawn Friday and arrested two dozen students, college officials said. 7. In a widening crackdown on Islamic militants, Israeli troops scaling ladders broke into a West Bank college dormitory before dawn Friday and arrested two dozen students. 8. The arrests are part of a widening crackdown on collusion between government and business. 9. The Malaysian government today charged a newspaper editor with sedition and warned that more arrests were possible in a widening crackdown on opposition leaders. 10. Xinhua said the retail market would remain closely watched under the widening crackdown. |