31.   Draskovic also called for an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council at which Yugoslavia would accept a peace deal to end the crippling NATO strikes.

32.   Ethnic Chinese were a favorite target of looters who took advantage of an army mutiny, a crippling strike and an intervention last week by neighboring South African forces.

33.   Feeling heat from the crippling strikes, Premier Alain Juppe this week withdrew his plan to trim down the money-losing state railroad.

34.   Ferrer said unions could spark isolated walkouts, but acknowledged that labor federations lack the broad support to trigger crippling strikes like the ones that hit France in December.

35.   For a second day Wednesday, the opposition suspended its crippling strike to celebrate Independence Day, a national holiday which fell on Tuesday.

36.   For nearly two years, opposition parties led a series of crippling strikes that shut down factories and reduced exports.

37.   For a second day Wednesday, the opposition suspended its crippling strike.

38.   Hundreds of Parisian commuters, meanwhile, protested against the crippling strike by bus, train and subway drivers that has turned commuting into a nightmare for millions.

39.   Hundreds of thousands of students demonstrated in recent weeks for more school aid and transit workers staged crippling strikes to demand more police to fight rising youth violence.

40.   Less than a month after a crippling nationwide strike threatened his government, French President Jacques Chirac on Monday held tough on austerity policies and backed his prime minister.