21.   The crackdown aimed to impose control on prison wards where left-wing inmates were holding a hunger strike to protest a move to smaller, less secure cells.

22.   The crackdown aimed to impose control on prison wards where left-wing inmates were holding a hunger strike.

23.   The hunger strike was called to protest the transfer of prisoners from large, dormitory-style prison wards to smaller cells.

24.   The Islamic militant inmates used guns, swords, knives, even makeshift flame-throwers and firebombs to battle guards entering their prison ward.

25.   The hunger strike is protest of the transfer of prisoners from large, dormitory-style prison wards to smaller cells.

26.   The planned transfers were part of a government effort to break up large prison wards, which they say are used by prisoners as indoctrination centers.

27.   The strike was called to protest the transfer of prisoners from large, dormitory-style prison wards to smaller cells.

28.   The three Marines are serving out their sentences in a special Japanese prison ward for U.S. GIs just south of Tokyo.

29.   The violence erupted Thursday when guards went into prison wards to try to repair locks smashed earlier in the week.

30.   With their request rejected, Harp and Ledet now face serving their sentences in a special Japanese prison ward for U.S. GIs south of Tokyo.