51.   Sri Lanka has ordered a nationwide crackdown on the rapidly increasing problem of sexual abuse of children, a government minister said Tuesday.

52.   Still, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has banned Jaish and Lashkar and has arrested thousands of militants in a nationwide crackdown on Islamic extremists.

53.   The detentions are part of a nationwide crackdown on demands for Kurdish-language education in schools and universities.

54.   The government announced the amnesty, valid through July, when it began a nationwide crackdown on crime and terrorism in April.

55.   The deaths were expected to trigger a nationwide crackdown on student movements.

56.   The executions were the latest in a nearly monthlong surge of death sentences issued as part of nationwide anti-crime crackdown.

57.   The government announced an amnesty as part of a nationwide crackdown on crime and terrorism that started in April this year.

58.   The Iraqi authorities have mounted a nationwide crackdown on smugglers of gasoline, slapping stiff penalties on violators, including a minimum prison term of ten years.

59.   The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Development said the closures were part of its nationwide crackdown on fraud in foreign exchange.

60.   The sentences were part of a nationwide crackdown on anti-government activists, most of them Shiite Muslims seeking the restoration of Parliament and better job opportunities.