31.   It is to address local issues in Kosovo, where Yugoslavia began a crackdown in February on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.

32.   Izvestia said it appeared that the Interior Ministry, in charge of police, has begun a crackdown on corruption that targets the rival security agency.

33.   Lonski insisted the emission controls and other improvements were in the works before regulatory agencies began their crackdown on personal watercraft.

34.   Many of that group are hiding out in the Drenica region in the center of the province, where Serbian police began their crackdown in early March.

35.   Most of the ethnic Albanians favor independent, and Yugoslav forces began a crackdown against Kosovo separatists early last year.

36.   Serb forces in February began a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists who are fighting for independence for the province.

37.   Tension has intensified in recent weeks, as Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov began a crackdown on the Wahhabis, the fundamentalist Islamic sect blamed for many abductions and attacks.

38.   That is when authorities began a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in Serbia.

39.   That is when authorities began a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, a majority Albanian Serbian province.

40.   The army on Monday began a crackdown against insurgents in the region, the paper said.