21.   A MASSIVE nationwide crackdown on banking irregularities has begun, with Guangdong Province bearing the brunt of the first blow.

22.   A nationwide crackdown on smuggling is driving prices of many commodities higher, reversing a yearlong downward trend, the newspaper China Securities Times reported Thursday.

23.   Alarmed by growing lawlessness, both in the cities and in the countryside, the government has launched a nationwide crackdown on crime.

24.   All four were sent to prison in the nationwide crackdown that followed the armed quelling of the Tiananmen Square movement.

25.   As part of a nationwide crackdown on crime, Beijing authorities have sentenced nine people to death for murder and armed robbery, an official paper reported Sunday.

26.   Aristide subsequently called for a nationwide crackdown on illegal weapons.

27.   Authorities in south China have executed nine people as part of a nationwide crackdown on crime, an official newspaper reported.

28.   China has executed convicts for murder, rape, robbery and other offenses during an intensive nationwide anti-crime crackdown.

29.   Chinese authorities have carried out a nationwide crackdown on crime since April.

30.   China has executed four businessmen for tax fraud in the midst of a nationwide anti-crime crackdown, state newspapers reported Saturday.