21.   Labor unions that include Hyundai employees launched new strikes today to protest legislation that makes it easier for companies to dismiss workers.

22.   Milosevic wanted the lifting of the NATO order that gave authority to launch strikes immediately.

23.   Officials also said that in August, the CIA issued a secret report warning senior policy-makers that Al Qaeda hoped to launch a strike against the domestic United States.

24.   On Thursday, Blair defended Clinton against assertions that the military strike was launched to help Clinton with his domestic crisis.

25.   Once strikes were launched, support from congressional leaders came quickly, even if there were some reservations.

26.   Powell pressed Musharraf to honor a pledge he made last January to crack down on Islamic militants operating from Pakistan to launch strikes into Kashmir.

27.   Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said Friday that, based on his talks with Cohen, the Clinton Administration had not yet decided whether to launch strikes on Iraq.

28.   That was the case two years ago when the Dayton workers launched a three-day strike over similar issues.

29.   Television would be hardest hit if writers and actors launch a prolonged strike.

30.   That means that Washington has not had to expend as much effort seeking permission from gulf allies to launch strikes as it did earlier this year.